Boulevard de la Madeleine

The Boulevard de la Madeleine () 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.

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

Notable addresses

• 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.

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