Avenue Kléber

Avenue Kléber

View of Avenue Kléber
Shown within Paris
Length	1,135 m (3,724 ft)
Width	36 m (118 ft)
Arrondissement	16th
Quarter	Chaillot
Coordinates	48°52′11.00″N 2°17′31.70″E / 48.8697222°N 2.2921389°E / 48.8697222; 2.2921389Coordinates: 48°52′11.00″N 2°17′31.70″E / 48.8697222°N 2.2921389°E / 48.8697222; 2.2921389
From	Place Charles de Gaulle
To	Place du Trocadéro
Construction
Completion	1863
Denomination	August 16, 1879

Avenue Kléber is one of the avenues in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of the twelve avenues leading out of the Arc de Triomphe. It was named after Jean Baptiste Kléber, a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. Before 1879, it was called l'avenue du Roi-de-Rome, in memory of Napoleon II.

It is "lined with grand examples of the ceremonial, yet never austere, buildings favored by Haussmann."^[1] Of note are the Icelandic and Peruvian embassies (Number 8 and Number 50, respectively), the Hôtel Raphael at Number 17, and The Peninsula Paris hotel at Number 19.

French composer Henri Büsser (1872-1973) lived at Number 71. Avenue Kléber was one of the filming locations featured in The Bourne Identity.^{[citation needed]}

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