Boulevard Richard-Lenoir

Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, running from the Bastille to the Avenue de la République, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris by Baron Haussmann during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III.

Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
Shown within Paris
Arrondissement11th
QuarterBastille
Coordinates48.8599°N 2.3719°E / 48.8599; 2.3719
FromBastille
ToAvenue de la République

The Boulevard is named after François Richard and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne, industrialists who brought the cotton industry to Paris in the 18th and 19th century. It is the site of a weekly art market and of a bi-weekly fruit and vegetable market that is one of the largest in Paris.

Fictional

Georges Simenon's famous detective Jules Maigret is portrayed as living at 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.[1]

gollark: Sauce?
gollark: You made your thing accidentally print out some environment variables?
gollark: Probably it would just have to invoke `curl` or something to download the PotatOS For Linux script, and then execute that.
gollark: I should see how small I can make a potatOS installer for Linux.
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See also

References

  1. Georges Simenon (1948) Maigret et son mort, Presses de la Cité.
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