Boulevard Raspail

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Boulevard Raspail
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Shown within Paris
Length2,370 m (7,780 ft)
Width30 m (98 ft)
Arrondissement 6th, 7th, 14th
Quarter Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Montparnasse
Coordinates 48°50′42″N2°19′43″E / 48.84500°N 2.32861°E / 48.84500; 2.32861
From 205, boulevard Saint-Germain and 61, rue du Bac
To place Denfert-Rochereau
Construction
Denomination9 July 1887
Boulevard Raspail crossing rue de Sevres and rue de Babylone. Sevres-Babylone metro station at the left. Boulevard-raspail-crossing-rue-de-Sevres.jpg
Boulevard Raspail crossing rue de Sèvres and rue de Babylone. Sèvres-Babylone metro station at the left.

Boulevard Raspail is a boulevard of Paris, in France.

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Its orientation is north–south, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements. The boulevard intersects major roadways: rue de Sèvres, rue de Rennes and boulevard du Montparnasse. The allée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore is situated on the boulevard, in front of the Alliance française.

Its former name was boulevard d'Enfer, of which the passage d'Enfer is a vestigial relic.

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Located near the Métro stations:  Rue du Bac ,  Rennes ,  Notre-Dame-des-Champs  and  Sèvres – Babylone .

Naming

The boulevard was named after François-Vincent Raspail (1794–1878), French chemist, physician and politician.

History

The section between a point approximately 80 m beyond the rue de Varenne and rue de Sèvres was dug in 1869. The 90 m section from rue Stanislas was opened up by MM. Bernard frères.

The section between boulevard Edgar-Quinet and place Denfert-Rochereau had incorporated the old boulevard d'Enfer and the external boulevard (part of boulevard de Montrouge) into a single road by the law of 16 June 1859. Its width was 70 m before the decree of 14 September 1892.

The modernist architect Le Corbusier criticizes Boulevard Raspail in Toward an Architecture for its disregard of proper proportion and capriciousness. [1]

In 1933, the enlarged part of boulevard Raspail surrounding n° 51, where it meets the rue du Cherche-Midi, was named place Alphonse-Deville. The chemin de ronde d'Enfer was annexed from boulevard Raspail and boulevard Edgar-Quinet.

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References

  1. "Towards A New Architecture Corbusier Le". archive.org. Retrieved 3 February 2018.