Boulevard Richard-Lenoir

Boulevard Richard-Lenoir

Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
Shown within Paris
Arrondissement	11th
Quarter	Bastille
Coordinates	48.8599°N 2.3719°E / 48.8599; 2.3719
From	Bastille
To	Avenue de la République

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 [1] (1765-1839) and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne [2] (1768-1806), business-partner industrialists who brought the cotton industry to Paris and northern France in the 18th and early 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.

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  Boulevard Richard-Lenoir plaque
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  Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in 1981
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  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.

See also

• Richard-Lenoir (Paris Métro)