Avenue Kléber
View of Avenue Kléber
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| Length | 1,135 m (3,724 ft) |
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| Width | 36 m (118 ft) |
| Arrondissement | 16th |
| Quarter | Etoile |
| From | Place Charles de Gaulle |
| To | Place du Trocadéro |
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| Completion | 1863 |
| Denomination | August 16, 1879 |
Coordinates: 48°52′11.00″N 2°17′31.70″E / 48.8697222°N 2.2921389°E
Avenue Kléber is one of the avenues in Paris. It is one of the twelve avenues leading out of the Arc de Triomphe. It was named after Jean Baptiste Kléber, a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. Before 1879, it was called l'avenue du Roi-de-Rome, in memory of Napoleon II.
It is "lined with grand examples of the ceremonial, yet never austere, buildings favored by Haussmann." Of note are the Icelandic and Peruvian embassies (Number 8 and Number 50, respectively), the Hôtel Raphael at Number 17, and The Peninsula Paris hotel at Number 19.
French composer Henri Büsser (1872-1973) lived at Number 71. Avenue Kléber was one of the filming locations featured in The Bourne Identity.
Historic postcard
Avenue Kléber in 2012
N° 17
N° 19
N° 50
N° 52
N° 64
N° 66
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