Avenue Kléber

Coordinates: 48°52′11.00″N 2°17′31.70″E / 48.8697222°N 2.2921389°E / 48.8697222; 2.2921389

Avenue Kléber

View of Avenue Kléber
Length 1,135 m (3,724 ft)
Width 36 m (118 ft)
Arrondissement 16th
Quarter Etoile
From Place Charles de Gaulle
To Place du Trocadéro
Construction
Completion 1863
Denomination August 16, 1879

Avenue Kléber is one of the avenues in 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.

References

  1. ↑ The Rotarian. Rotary International. March 1995. p. 20. ISSN 0035-838X. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
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