Avenue Kléber

Coordinates: 48°52′11.00″N 2°17′31.70″E / 48.8697222°N 2.2921389°E / 48.8697222; 2.2921389

Avenue Kléber
Construction
View of Avenue Kléber

Length	1,135 m (3,724 ft)
Width	36 m (118 ft)
Arrondissement	16th
Quarter	Etoile
From	Place Charles de Gaulle
To	Place du Trocadéro
Completion	1863
Denomination	August 16, 1879

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."^[1] 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

References

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

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