Boulevard Malesherbes

See also: Malesherbes

The boulevard Malesherbes is a Parisian artery inaugurated by Napoleon III in 1863.

The creation of a way going of the Place of the Madeleine to the barrier of Heap was decided by an imperial decree of September 10th 1808. Under the Restoration, one gave to this artery, which did not exist yet, the name of Christian-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, politician French, directing of the Bookstore under Louis XV and Louis XVI and lawyer of this last at the time of his lawsuit. The effective creation of this boulevard fell under the policy of great work to Paris carried out by the Baron Haussmann under the Second Empire, of 1853 with 1870.

Remarkable buildings

n° 8: Site of old the Church of the Madeleine, destroyed in 1801.
n° 9: Marcel Proust and his family remained there, on the 1st floor side court, of 1873 to 1900.
n° 98 (angle of the street of the Terrace): Site where rose the splendid private mansion built in 1876 by the architect Jules February for the courtesan Valtesse of Bigne. This hotel was used as model with Emile Zola for that of Nana .
n° 145 : College Carnot, in the past Monge School, which had in particular as a pupil the writer Maurice Renard (intern of 1886 to 1892) like Jacques Chirac, president of the Republic
n° 160: In 1909, Coco Chanel made there its beginnings in Paris as modiste, in a garçonnière in ground floor lent by her friend Etienne Balsan.
n° 190 (angle of the street Juliette Lambert): Juliette Adam held to with it his famous literary living room as from 1887.

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