Tag: 16th arrondissement
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Walk 69 – Maison de Balzac
Maison de Balzac47 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris The Maison de Balzac is the only one of the novelist’s Parisian homes that survives today. It was in this pavilion on the hillside of Passy that Balzac wrote La Comédie humaine. The museum displays personal memorabilia of the writer and his family, as well as numerous first…
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Walk 68 – Boulainvilliers
Monty (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)51 Rue du Ranelagh, 75016 Paris, France Singer Monty (real name Jacques Bulostin) was one of the most successful male singers in France during the era of yé-yé music. In 1963, he signed for the Barclay record label, where he was given the stage name of Monty. The following year he released…
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Walk 67 – Théâtre du Ranelagh
Denise Alberti (PRODUCTEURS ET PRESENTATEURS DE L’O.R.T.F.)30 Rue du Ranelagh, 75016 Paris, France Denise Alberti was a radio announcer and presenter on ORTF (Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française) and its predecessor Paris Inter. She was a pioneer in a male dominated radio scene, where women often struggled to get their voices heard. It was Alberti that…
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Walk 66 – Tombe de Sainte-Marie Eugenie de Jesus
Michel Subiela (REALISATEURS DE TELEVISION)11 Rue de Boulainvilliers, 75016 Paris, France The godfather of fantastical drama on French television, Michel Subiela created the series Tribunal de l’impossible, which was broadcast on the first channel of ORTF from 1967 to 1974. An anthology of fantastic (occult etc) news stories that had hit the headlines, it was…
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Walk 65 – La Maison La Roche (Le Corbusier)
Pierre Gaspard Huit (REALISATEURS DE TELEVISION)25 bis Rue Jasmin, 75016 Paris, France Director Pierre Gaspard Huit studied at the theatre school Cours Simon, where he graduated with a first prize. His early directorial experiences were in Germany, where he had been a prisoner of war during WW2. After the war he worked as an assistant…
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Walk 64 – Jasmin
Jasmin MétroThe station was opened on 8 November 1922. It is named after the French poet Jacques Jasmin (born Jacques Boé; 1798–1864), called the wig-maker poet, whose works in Langue d’oc were the precursor of the Félibrige, the literary movement of Provençal. Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse (Paris)The Sainte-Thérèse chapel is the first sanctuary that was dedicated to…
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Walk 63 – Maison de la Radio et de la Musique – Radio France
Fragment du mur de Berlin à la maison de Radio108 Av. du Président Kennedy, 75016 Paris, France A piece of the Berlin Wall is installed near the main entrance of the Maison de la Radio. It was given to Radio France by the President of Deutschlandradio, Willi Steul. As well as this section in the…
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Walk 62 – Félicien David
Marcel Bozzufi – COMEDIENS6 Rue Félicien David, 75016 Paris, France Actor Marcel Bozzuffi is best remembered by international cinema lovers as the hitman Nicoli, in the Oscar-winning American film The French Connection (with Gene Hackman). He was often cast in the roles of policeman or gangster, but broke away from this “bad guy” label in…
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Walk 61 – Castel Béranger
Castel Béranger14 Rue Jean de la Fontaine, 75016 Paris, France The Castel Béranger is a residential building with thirty-six apartments located at 14 rue de la Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by the architect Hector Guimard, and built between 1895 and 1898. It was the first residence in Paris built…
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