The Avenue d'Iéna is a tree-lined avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, running from the Trocadéro (Avenue Albert-de-Mun) to the Place de l'Étoile. Passing through the Place d'Iéna, the Place de l'Amiral de Grasse, the Place de l'Uruguay and the Place Richard de Coudenhove Kalergi on the way. It is named after the neighbouring bridge across the Seine, the Pont d'Iéna (itself named after the Battle of Iena). It has a length of 1150 m and an average width of 35 m. The avenue is intersected by: The closest metro stations are:

History

On 2 March 1864, the Avenue d'Iéna replaced the former Rue des Batailles, which ran between the Avenue Albert-de-Mun and the Place d'Iéna. The Rue des Batailles had been a street in the village of Chaillot, engulfed by the expanding Paris in 1786. For some years afterwards, two town boundaries of Chaillot could be seen at the wall of sieur Lélu and the house of sieur Jamard. The street housed several hospitals and a private lunatic asylum was set up in the house once occupied by the Chevalier Pierre Bayard du Terrail. The chemist Charles Derosne (1779–1846), worked in 7 rue des Batailles at the extraction of sugar from sugarbeet. On 20 December 1961, the name Place de l'Uruguay was given to the intersection of the Rue Galilée and the Rue Jean Giraudoux with the avenue.

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