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Boulevard des Invalides

The Boulevard des Invalides near the Saint-François-Xavier Church.
Former name(s)	Boulevard du Midi
Namesake	Hôtel des Invalides
Length	1245 m
Width	39 m
Location	7th arrondissement, Paris, France
Coordinates	48.85244°N 2.314596°E / 48.85244; 2.314596

The Boulevard des Invalides is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

Location

Stretching over 1245 meters, the boulevard starts at 127, rue de Grenelle and ends at Place Léon-Paul-Fargue and Rue de Sèvres.

It is served by Line 13 of the metro at the Varenne, Saint-François-Xavier, and Duroc stations. The latter station, located at the southern end of the boulevard, also has trains from Line 10 passing through.

Etymology

The boulevard is named after the nearby Hôtel des Invalides.

History

The Boulevard des Invalides around 1800.

Initiated around 1720, its development was completed in the early 1760s with the entire Boulevard du Midi connecting the Esplanade des Invalides to the current Place Valhubert near the Salpêtrière Hospital.

Notable buildings and places

• Number 6: the Hôtel des Invalides.
• Number 8: the poet Leconte de Lisle lived at this address from 1861, on the 5th floor. He held a literary salon frequented by the Parnassians.
• Number 13: diplomat Philippe Berthelot lived at this address from 1927, in a mansion that he had built (now destroyed), where he received Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux, and Saint-John Perse.
• Number 14: in 1923, the address of the Apostolic Nunciature to France.

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  Number 30.

  Number 30: Foundation for the Memory of the Deportation and Foundation of the Resistance.
• Numbers 31-33: Henri Matisse Academy and workshops of several artists.
• Number 33: Lycée Victor-Duruy.
• Number 34: General Henri Albert Niessel resided here from 1921 to 1955. A plaque pays tribute to him.

Number 36.

Number 35: a modern building constructed on the site of the former Hôtel de Verteillac or de Rohan, where the Princess of Léon lived in the early 20th century, mentioned by Marcel Proust. The new building housed the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf until 1994, then the Île-de-France Regional Council until 2018. It was sold to AG2R La Mondiale in early 2019.

• Number 36: a building erected in 1887 by the architect Charles Mewès. The Carnavalet Museum preserves an exterior view dating from 1918 and a photograph of the dining room in 1920. The Simon Course, or René Simon Drama School, long had its premises here, and thousands of apprentice actors frequented the place.

External links

• Interactive map of Paris streets (in French)