Boulevard de la Madeleine

The Boulevard de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də la madlɛn]) is one of the 11 original grands boulevards of Paris, France, a chain of roads running in a semicircle on the right bank of Paris where the city's defensive walls used to be located.

Boulevard de la Madeleine

Boulevard de la Madeleine, c. 1895
Shown within Paris
Namesake	Church of Saint-Marie-Madeleine
Length	220 m (720 ft)
Width	43.3 m (142 ft)
Arrondissement	1st, 8th, 9th
Quarter	Madeleine. Place Vendôme. Chaussée d'Antin.
Coordinates	48°52′10.81″N 2°19′35.38″E
From	53 rue Cambon
To	10-16 place de la Madeleine
Construction
Completion	1676

The boulevard is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine.

___	Located near the Métro stations: Madeleine and Opéra.

Notable addresses

Boulevard de la Madeleine

• No. 5: In the 1920s, la Galerie Adolphe LeGoup was located here.
• No. 11: Building where Alphonsine Plessis, better known as Marie Duplessis died in February 1847. Her life and death were depicted by Alexandre Dumas fils in the novel la Dame aux Camélias and by Giuseppe Verdi in the opera La Traviata.

Cultural references

In 1966, The Moody Blues recorded a single named after this boulevard.