Street Names of Paris, 1er arrondissement

In this article, the street names of Paris' 1er arrondissement are explained.

Battles

• Rue de Rivoli was named after the Battle of Rivoli in which Napoleon defeated an Austrian army.

Writers

• Allée Louis Aragon is named after Louis Aragon, (3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982), French historian, poet and novelist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

• André Breton, (18 February 1896 – 28 September 1966), was a French writer, poet, and surrealist.
• Blaise Cendrars, (1 September 1887 - 21 January 1961), Swiss novelist and poet.
• Federico Garcia Lorca, (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), Spanish poet and dramatist.
• Saint-John Perse, (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960.
• Jules Supervielle, (1884 - 1960), French poet.

Other persons

• General Émile Lemonnier, (1893 - 1945), French general.
• Napoleon, French Emperor

Bibliography

• Lazare, Félix; Lazare, Louis Clément (1844) (in French). Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments. Paris. http://books.google.fr/books?id=eIMXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Dictionnaire+administratif+et+historique+des+rues+de+Paris+et+de+ses+monuments%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false.