Rue de la Paix, Paris

Rue de la Paix, Paris

Rue de La Paix from Place de l'Opéra
Length 230 m (750 ft)
Width 22.50 m (73.8 ft)
Arrondissement 2nd
Quarter Gaillon.
From 2 rue des Capucines and 32 rue Danielle Casanova
To 1 place de l'Opéra
Construction
Completion February 19, 1806
Rue de la Paix by Jean Béraud

The rue de la Paix (French pronunciation: [ʁy də la pɛ]) is a fashionable shopping street in the center of Paris. Located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, running north from Place Vendôme and ending at the Opéra Garnier, it is best known for its jewellers, such as the shop opened by Cartier in 1898.[1] Charles Frederick Worth was the first to open a couture house in the rue de la Paix.

History

The street was opened in 1806 from Place Vendôme on the orders of Napoleon I, part of the Napoleonic program to open the heart of the Right Bank of Paris, both towards the undeveloped western suburbs and to the north. Creating the new street required the demolition of the ancient Convent of the Capucins. At first named Rue Napoléon, its name was changed in 1814,[2] after the Bourbon Restoration, to celebrate the newly arranged peace.[3][4]

Transportation

Based in the center of Paris, the street can be reached by:

Retail outlets associated with Rue da la Paix

Rue de la Paix in popular culture

References

  1. 1 2 Paris 2e arrondissement Mémoire des rues; Auteur: Meryem Khouya; Éditeur: Parimagine, 2007
  2. Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments Auteurs Félix Lazare, Louis Clément Lazare Compilé par Félix Lazare, Louis Clément Lazare Éditeur F. Lazare, 1844
  3. Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 8th ed., 1985), vol. I, p. 265.
  4. George Augustus Sala, Paris Herself Again in 1878-9 (Vizetelly & Co., 1884),p. 507.
  5. The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 137, No. 1111 (Oct., 1995), pp. 684-687

Coordinates: 48°52′8.87″N 2°19′52.06″E / 48.8691306°N 2.3311278°E / 48.8691306; 2.3311278

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