The Boulevard de Magenta is located in the

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and Tenth arrondissements of

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. It begins at

place de la République The Place de la République (; English: Republic Square; known until 1879 as the Place du Château d'Eau, ) is a square in Paris, located on the border between the 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements. The square has an area of .Warner, p. 250 ...

and 1, rue Beaurepaire, and ends at 1,

boulevard de Rochechouart The Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart () is a street in Paris, France, situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street, it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665–1727), abbess of Montm ...

and 53, boulevard de la Chapelle. France Paris Immeuble boulevard de Magenta

Etymology

It is named after the

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, a battle fought on 4 June 1859 near

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. It was a victory by the

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ais of the

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and by the French

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under general

Patrice de MacMahon Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta (; 13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893), was a French general and politician who served as President of France from 1873 to 1879. He was elevated to the dignity of Marshal ...

and

Napoléon III Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last ...

over the

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under Guylay.

History

The creation of the boulevard de Magenta was part of the Hausmannian transformation of Paris. It was completed in 1855 between rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin and the

(the boulevard here in fact follows the route of the old rue du Nord which formed a part of an 1827 subdivision) and in 1859 between

and rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin.

Stations

Métro

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* Jacques-Bonsergent * Barbès - Rochechouart

RER station

The RER station

is located to the east of the gare du Nord and named after this boulevard, even if it is not truly under it. It is served by RER line E.

Monuments

*n° 3 : Here lived

Jacques Bonsergent Jacques Bonsergent was a French people, French engineer who was executed by firing squad on 23 December 1940, age 28. Bonsergent's execution has been described as the first execution of a French civilian in German military administration in occup ...

, the first Parisian to be shot by the Nazis during the

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, on 23 December 1940. *n° 24 : Site of the ''restaurant Véry'', where the anarchist

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was arrested on 30 March 1892. In revenge, the anarchists exploded a bomb here on the morning of 25 April that year. *n° 68 : Église Saint-Laurent, built between 1863 and 1867. *n° 85 bis : Marché Saint-Quentin installed here in 1866. *n° 110 : Here lived the painter

Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , ; ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough ...

. *n° 170 : The Le Louxor cinema (façades and ceilings inscribed as a

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), an Egyptian looking monument built by architect Henri-André Zipcy in 1921.

References

Sources

*Jacques Hillairet, ''Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris'', Minuit, Paris, 1963 ()

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boulevard De Magenta

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