Boulevard Haussmann
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  Boulevard HAUSSMANN
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| Arrondissement | VIIIe, IXe |
| Quarter | Madeleine. Europe. Faubourg du Roule. Faubourg Montmartre. Chaussée d'Antin. |
| Begins | 1 rue Drouot and 2 boulevard des Italiens |
| Ends | 202 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré |
| Length | 2530 m |
| Width | 30 m from rue Drouot and boulevard des Italiens to rue de Miromesnil; 33,60 m elsewhere. |
| Creation | October 17, 1857 - January 22, 1922 |
| Denomination | March 2, 1864 |
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Boulevard Haussmann from the Galeries Lafayette terrace.
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Boulevard Haussmann running from Paris VIIIe to Paris IXe arrondissement, 2.53 km long, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, who retained the complete confidence of Napoleon III.
The department stores ("grands magasins") Galeries Lafayette and Le Printemps are sited on the Boulevard Haussmann, which is mostly lined with apartment blocks, whose regulated cornice height gives a sense of regularity to the Boulevard.
At No. 102 lived the great French novelist Marcel Proust (1871 –1922) a martyr to asthma spent much of his life writing through the night hours in the famous cork-lined bedroom of his ornate townhouse. Alan Bates starred in 102 Boulevard Haussmann a 1991 made-for-television docudrama written by Alan Bennett [1].
At 158 and 158 bis the Musée Jacquemart-André presents a private collection of French furnishings.
The Impressionist and patron of other artists Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894) painted the Boulevard under many aspects of seasonal and daily change.
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- Nomenclature des voies: official information
