The Boulevard Raspail (French pronunciation: [bulvaÊ Êaspaj]) is a boulevard of Paris, in France.
Its orientation is northâsouth, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements. The boulevard intersects major roadways: Rue de SĂšvres, Rue de Rennes and Boulevard du Montparnasse. The AllĂ©e Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore is situated on the boulevard, in front of the Alliance française.
Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray the writer's persona rather than a physical likeness. The work was commissioned in 1891 by the Société des Gens de Lettres and a full-size plaster model was displayed in 1898 at a Salon in Champ de Mars. After coming under criticism the model was rejected by the Société and Rodin moved it to his home in Meudon. On 2 July 1939 (22 years after the sculptor's death) the model was cast in bronze for the first time and placed on the Boulevard du Montparnasse at the intersection with Boulevard Raspail.
Casts and various studies of the sculpture are today in many different collections including the Ackland Art Museum, Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum in Antwerp, The Norton Simon Museum of Art, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Musée Rodin in Meudon, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian) in Washington D.C, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in front of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in Caracas, Venezuela in the open spaces around the former Ateneo de Caracas, now UNEARTES and Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk in Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. Today the artwork is sometimes considered the first truly modern sculpture.
The Ăcole spĂ©ciale d'architecture (ĂSA; formerly Ăcole centrale d'architecture) is a private school for architecture at 254, boulevard Raspail in Paris, France. The diploma from the Ăcole spĂ©ciale d'architecture (DESA), recognized by the State since 1934, entitles the holder to registration with the Order of Architects.
The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile TrĂ©lat as reaction against the educational monopoly of Beaux-Arts architecture. It was endorsed by EugĂšne Viollet-le-Duc, a childhood friend, who after many infructuous attempts at reforming the Ăcole des Beaux-Arts had imagined the idea in 1863. Viollet le Duc provided many of the educational precepts and became one of its original stockholders, along with other notables including : Ferdinand de Lesseps, Anatole de Baudot, EugĂšne Flachat, Dupont de l'Eure, Jean-Baptiste AndrĂ© Godin, and Ămile Muller.
SĂšvresâBabylone (French pronunciation: [sÉvÊ(É) babilÉn]) is a station on Lines 10 and 12 of the Paris MĂ©tro. It is located at the intersection of Boulevard Raspail and rue de SĂšvres, on the border of the 6th and 7th arrondissements. Rue de SĂšvres boasts two flagship Paris fashion stores: Le Bon MarchĂ© at number 22 and HermĂšs at number 17.
The Place Denfert-Rochereau (French pronunciation: [plas dÉÌfÉÊ ÊÉÊÊo]), previously known as the Place d'Enfer, is a public square located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the Montparnasse district, at the intersection of the boulevards Raspail, Arago, and Saint-Jacques, and the avenues RenĂ© Coty, GĂ©nĂ©ral Leclerc, and Denfert-Rochereau, as well as the streets Froidevaux, Victor-ConsidĂ©rant and de Grancey. It is one of the largest and most important squares on the left bank of the Seine.
The square is named after Pierre Denfert-Rochereau, the French commander who organized the defense at the siege of Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War (1870â1871). It is dominated by the Lion of Belfort statue (a smaller version of the original in the town of Belfort) by FrĂ©dĂ©ric Bartholdi.