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over a program of public works for Paris. The fourth paragraph of the treaty signed between the two parties provided specifically for the creation of the
Boulevard Malesherbes. In 1860, the city reached an agreement with a group of private developers in order to extend the boulevard beyond the
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Haussmann administration, which had affected working class and poor areas of the city, the Boulevard Malesherbes was controversial because it passed through the St. Honoré neighborhood, bisecting some of Paris's most exclusive streets (the rue de la
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drove down the boulevard in an open carriage, flanked on either side of the street by rows of troops and soldiers stretching from the
Madeleine to the old outer boulevards. The Boulevard Malesherbes immediately became a fashionable address for Parisians.
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Madeleine. A second artery was judged necessary in order to create balance with the rue de la Madeleine to the east of the Madeleine. The two streets branch off of the
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Lavoisier, and the rue de Rumfort). This required the expropriation and demolition of numerous mansions in its path. A hill with a densely built slum on top of it, known as the
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to fit onto a small site, so that its dome was on axis with the
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has a location, called the Malesherbes Campus, on the boulevard. (former campus of
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was at 190, Boulevard Malesherbes, that of Madame de Saint-Marceaux at No. 100.
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for the artistic community of Paris in the late 19th century. The salon of
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