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.Marie-Ange Namy, Marcel-Lenoir et la fresque, In Situ, texte en ligne 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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