The Boulevard de la Madeleine is one of the four '

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' of

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, a chain of roads running east–west that includes the boulevard de la Madeleine, the

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, the

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and the boulevard Montmartre. The boulevard is named after the nearby

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Notable addresses

n°5 : In the 1920s, la Galerie Adolphe LeGoupMarie-Ange Namy, Marcel-Lenoir et la fresque, In Situ, texte en ligne was located here. n°11: Building where Alphonsine Plessis, better known as Marie Duplessis died in February 1847. Her life and death were depicted by

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in the novel ''

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'' and by Giuseppe Verdi in the opera '' La Traviata''.

Cultural references

In 1966,

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recorded a single named after this boulevard.

References

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