Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, running from the Bastille to the Avenue de la République, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris by Baron Haussmann during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III.

The Boulevard is named after François Richard and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne, industrialists who brought the cotton industry to Paris in the 18th and 19th century. It is the site of a weekly art market and of a bi-weekly fruit and vegetable market that is one of the largest in Paris.

  • Boulevard Richard-Lenoir plaque
    Boulevard Richard-Lenoir plaque
  • Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in 1981
    Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in 1981
  • A building at the Boulevard Richard Lenoir (numbers 53-55) in Paris in 1981. Unknown architect
    A building at the Boulevard Richard Lenoir (numbers 53-55) in Paris in 1981. Unknown architect

Fictional

Georges Simenon's famous detective Jules Maigret is portrayed as living at 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Georges Simenon (1948) Maigret et son mort, Presses de la Cité.