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Avenue in Paris, France
Avenue Kléber
View of the Avenue Kléber
Avenue Kléber is located in ParisAvenue KléberShown within Paris
Length1,135 m (3,724 ft)
Width36 m (118 ft)
Arrondissement16th
QuarterChaillot
Coordinates48°52′11.00″N 2°17′31.70″E / 48.8697222°N 2.2921389°E / 48.8697222; 2.2921389
FromPlace Charles de Gaulle
ToPlace du Trocadéro
Construction
Completion1863
DenominationAugust 16, 1879

The Avenue Kléber (French pronunciation: [avny klebɛʁ]) is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, one of the twelve avenues that converge on the Place Charles de Gaulle. It was named after Jean Baptiste Kléber, a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. Before 1879, it was called the Avenue du Roi-de-Rome, in memory of Napoleon II.

The avenue is "lined with grand examples of the ceremonial, yet never austere, buildings favored by Haussmann." Of note are the Icelandic and Peruvian embassies (no. 8 and no. 50, respectively), the Hôtel Raphael at no. 17, and The Peninsula Paris hotel at no. 19.

French composer Henri Büsser lived at no. 71. Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill, lived at no. 34 shortly after the death of her husband.

  • Historic postcard Historic postcard
  • Avenue Kléber in 2010 Avenue Kléber in 2010
  • No. 17 No. 17
  • No. 19 No. 19
  • Nos. 37 and 39 facing the Rue de Belloy Nos. 37 and 39 facing the Rue de Belloy
  • No. 50 No. 50
  • No. 52 No. 52
  • No. 64 No. 64
  • No. 66 No. 66

References

  1. The Rotarian. Rotary International. March 1995. p. 20. ISSN 0035-838X. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
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