Boulevard Raspail

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Length	2,370 m (7,780 ft)
Width	30 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
Denomination	9 July 1887; 138 years ago (9 July 1887)

TheBoulevard Raspail (French pronunciation:[bulvaʁʁaspaj]) is aboulevard of theRive Gauche ofParis,France. Its orientation is north–south, and joins theBoulevard Saint-Germain with thePlace Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing the7th,6th and14th arrondissements. The boulevard intersects major roadways: theRue de Sèvres, theRue de Rennes and theBoulevard du Montparnasse. TheAllée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore is situated on the boulevard, in front of theAlliance française. Its former name was theBoulevard d'Enfer, of which thepassage d'Enfer is a vestigial relic.

The boulevard was named afterFrançois-Vincent Raspail (1794–1878), Frenchchemist,physician and politician.

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

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

The modernist architectLe Corbusier criticizes the Boulevard Raspail inToward an Architecture for its disregard of proper proportion and capriciousness.^[1]

In 1933, the enlarged part of the Boulevard Raspail surrounding no. 51, where it meets theRue du Cherche-Midi, was named thePlace Alphonse-Deville. TheChemin de ronde d'Enfer was annexed from the Boulevard Raspail and the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet.

• At no. 48 is an annex of theBanque de France at the junction of theRue de Babylone.
• At no. 45 is theHôtel Lutetia, a large hotel, on the corner of the Rue de Babylone, which welcomed deportees returning from Nazi camps in 1945.
• At no. 54 is theÉcole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (former site of theprison du Cherche-Midi) and at no. 105.
• At the crossroads of the Boulevard Raspail and theBoulevard du Montparnasse, also known as thePlace Pablo-Picasso, is home of the statue ofHonoré de Balzac byAuguste Rodin since 1939.
• At no. 101 are the headquarters of theAlliance française, state-funded organisation whose mission is to spread French language and culture internationally; it houses a school targeted at students on linguistic exchanges or foreigners who have moved to Paris.
• At no. 116–118, at the exit of theNotre-Dame-des-Champs metro station, is the statue ofAlfred Dreyfus. The statue was commissioned byJack Lang of French artist "Tim" in 1985, originally meant for the courtyard of theÉcole Militaire where Dreyfus wascourt martialled in 1895, but was placed instead on the boulevard following the speech ofJacques Chirac in July 2006, to pacify the military.
• At no. 261 (14th arddt) is home of theCartier Foundation since 1994. It is housed in anavant garde building byJean Nouvel made of glass steel and concrete.
• At no. 291 is the head office ofAéroports de Paris.

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