Boulevard Haussmann

This road is named after Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891), a French administrator and politician who led the transformations of Paris under the Second Empire as prefect of the Seine.As part of the transformation of Paris, the prefect Haussmann conceived this main traffic axis as a diagonal road linking the first circle of the Grands Boulevards to that of the Wall of the Ferme générale.Like his predecessor Rambuteau, Haussmann's activity was rewarded during his lifetime by the attribution of his name to one of the main roads he had ordered to be constructed.There, in his cork-lined bedroom (now on display in the Carnavalet Museum), he wrote a major part of À la recherche du temps perdu.The headquarters of the Arab League was in the Boulevard in the late 1970s, and the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization Ezzedine Kalak was assassinated there on 3 August 1978.
Boulevard Haussmann during Christmas period
Boulevard des ItaliensRue de MiromesnilArrondissementQuarterRue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré9th arrondissementNapoleon IIIBaron Haussmanndepartment storesGaleries LafayetteAu PrintempsFaubourg-du-RouleBoulevard Montmartremetro stationCreusetransformations of ParisSecond EmpireGrands BoulevardsWall of the Ferme généraleRambuteauLouis AragonLe Paysan de ParisMarcel ProustCarnavalet MuseumÀ la recherche du temps perduAlan Bates102 Boulevard HaussmannAlan BennettCompagnie Internationale des Wagons-LitsMusée Jacquemart-AndréImpressionistGustave CaillebotteMarks & SpencerBritishIan FlemingThunderballSPECTREArab LeaguePalestine Liberation OrganizationEzzedine KalakThe Times