Avenue Ledru Rollin

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Ledru-Rollin Avenue
Avenue Ledru Rollin.jpg
Former name(s) Rue Saint-Claude, avenue Lacuée
Length 1540 metres
Width 30 metres
Location Paris, France
Arrondissement 11th & 12th
Quarter Quinze-Vingts, Sainte-Marguerite, and Roquette
Postal code 75012, 75011
Nearest metro station Paris Métro Paris Métro Line 1 Paris Métro Line 5 Paris Métro Line 8 Paris Métro Line 9.
Coordinates 48°50′55″N 2°22′21″E / 48.84865°N 2.372555°E / 48.84865; 2.372555
From 36, quai de la Râpée
To 114, rue de la Roquette & 49, rue Godefroy-Cavaignac
Construction
Commissioned 1859
Completion 1931
Inauguration 16 August 1879

Ledru-Rollin Avenue is a street situated in the neighbourhoods of Quinze-Vingts of the 12th arrondissement and Sainte-Marguerite and Roquette of the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Location[]

Ledru-Rollin Avenue is a broad thoroughfare of about 1.5 kilometres in length which unites the Austerlitz Bridge to the Town Hall of the 11th arrondissement, at Leon Blum Square (Place Léon Blum). Its initial orientation is North-East, but Ledru-Rollin Avenue eventually curves towards the North. The entire boulevard is bordered by trees on both sides, and it passes through the three main east-west arteries of the 12th arrondissement: Avenue Daumesnil, the rue de Charenton and the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, the last of which marks the border between the 12th and the 11th arrondissements. Most of the buildings on the avenue date from the 19th and 20th centuries, and some of them are quite distinguished.

Ledru-Rollin Avenue is easily accessed via the Métro stations Quai de la Rapée ( Paris Métro Line 5 ), Ledru-Rollin ( Paris Métro Line 8 ), and Voltaire ( Paris Métro Line 9 ). It is also close to the stations Bastille and Gare de Lyon on Metro Line Paris Métro Line 1, and is home to many bus stops as well, including the 20, 24, 57, 61, 63, and 65 as well as the 69, 76 & 86.

Origin of the name[]

In 1879, the avenue was named in honour of the French lawyer and politician Alexandre Auguste Ledru, also known as Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874),[1] Minister of the Interior of the 2nd Republic, and a champion of universal suffrage (for men). Twenty-six other French cities and towns also bear streets with the name Ledru-Rollin: a boulevard in Montpellier, and streets in Agen, Dijon, Avignon, Châteauroux, Tours, Tarbes, Bellac, Argenton-sur-Creuse, Limoges, Marseille, La Ciotat, Moulins, Pertuis, Hellemmes, Reims, Roanne, Rueil-Malmaison, Suresnes, Mauguio, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Houilles, Choisy-le-Roi, Ivry-sur-Seine, and in Fontenay-aux-Roses, where he died on 31 December 1874.

History[]

A part of Ledru-Rollin Avenue was inundated in the famous flooding of the Seine River in January 1910.

Notable buildings[]

  • At No. 153, a former Protestant church, built in 1882 by W. Hansen, is notable for the sculpture of an open Bible. This building is listed on the protected buildings of the 11th arrondissement.[2]
  • At No. 160, the pastry shop La Couronne du Roi, is located, which specialises in cake design.

References[]

  1. ^ Hillairet, Jacques (1985). Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris. Payen-Appenzeller, Pascal. (8e ed.). Paris: Éditions de Minuit. p. 30. ISBN 2-7073-1054-9. OCLC 14048489.
  2. ^ Règlement du PLU, tome 2, annexe VI, p. 274.
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