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The '''rue de la Victoire''' (=Victory street) is a street in the [[ |
The '''rue de la Victoire''' (=Victory street) is a street in the [[9th arrondissement of Paris]]. |
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The former name of the street was "rue Chantereine" ("Chantereine" means "singing [[frog]]s", because at that time the quarter was swampy and there were many frogs). The street took the name "rue de la Victoire" from 1797 to 1816 after [[Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars|the victorious campaign]] of [[Napoleon]] in Italy. There was also an hotel - known as the hôtel Beauharnais - belonging to Napoleon on the street. |
The former name of the street was "rue Chantereine" ("Chantereine" means "singing [[frog]]s", because at that time the quarter was swampy and there were many frogs). The street took the name "rue de la Victoire" from 1797 to 1816 after [[Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars|the victorious campaign]] of [[Napoleon]] in Italy. There was also an hotel - known as the hôtel Beauharnais - belonging to Napoleon on the street. |
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48°52′30.65″N 2°20′6.76″E / 48.8751806°N 2.3352111°E
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| Located near the Métro stations: Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves, Le Peletier and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. |
The rue de la Victoire (=Victory street) is a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
The former name of the street was "rue Chantereine" ("Chantereine" means "singing frogs", because at that time the quarter was swampy and there were many frogs). The street took the name "rue de la Victoire" from 1797 to 1816 after the victorious campaign of Napoleon in Italy. There was also an hotel - known as the hôtel Beauharnais - belonging to Napoleon on the street.
Notable places
- n° 44 : the Grande synagogue of Paris.
- n°58-60, former hôtel Beauharnais, from where Napoleon Bonaparte organized the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire
- n° 98bis : (at the junction with rue Joubert) : hôtel of the French architecte François-Joseph Bélanger. When he was released from Saint-Lazare jail during the French Revolution, he rebuilt it in pompeian style for his wife, the dancer Mademoiselle Dervieux.
References
- Histoire de Paris rue par rue, maison par maison, Charles Lefeuve, 1875 (http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/rues/158.htm)
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