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Rue de l’Assomption to Rue architects, designers, artists and
Mallet-Stevens their modern-minded clients.
At the corner of Rue de The original proportions,
l’Assomption, there is a view of however, were altered
the massive Maison de Radio- dramatically by the addition of an
France q, built in 1963 to house extra three storeys in the 1960s.
French radio and television (see Continue on Rue du Docteur
p204). It was one of the first Blanche until coming to Villa du
modern postwar buildings in Docteur Blanche on the left. At
the city. Turn left into Rue de the end of this small cul-de-sac
l’Assomption and walk to the is the most celebrated modern
fine 1920s apartment building house in Auteuil, Le Corbusier’s
at No. 18 w. Turn left into Rue Villa Roche u. Together with
du Général Dubail and follow the adjoining Villa Jeanneret,
the street to Place Rodin, where it is now part of the Corbusier
the great sculptor’s bronze Foundation (see pp40–41, 246).
Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, pietà t Built for an art collector in 1923–
t Ranelagh AVE MOZART nude, The Age of Bronze (1877) 5 using the new technique of
RUE DU DOCTEU R BLANCHE RU E D E L'YVETTE M O Z A R T R U E D E w L ' A S S O M P T I O N lack of ornamentation, is a
reinforced concrete, the house,
y
r
e, occupies the centre of
with its geometric forms and
the roundabout.
model of early Modernism.
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Jasmin e 0 q
i o A V E N U E L E O P O L D I I
u RUE DE BOULAINVILLIERS
RUE JASMIN
RUE H. HEINE
9 RUE GROS
8
R U E R I B E R A
Take the Avenue
7
RU E D E LA SOURCE R U E L A F O N T A I N E back to Rue de Shuttered bay window at No. 3
R U E R A F F E T
Théodore Rousseau
Square Jasmin o
V il la A V E N U E M O Z A R T
l’Assomption and turn left
Mo nt m o r e n c y T H E O P H I L E G A U T I E R towards Avenue Mozart. Rue du Docteur Blanche
to Rue Jasmin
Cut through in the 1880s, this
Blanche and turn right into Rue
5 F O N T A I N E 6 is the principal artery of the Walk back to Rue du Docteur
16th arrondissement, linking
Henri Heine. No. 18 bis i is a
P O U S S I N north and south and lined with very elegant Neo-Classical 1920s
R U E L A
R U E A V E N U E typical bourgeois apartment apartment building offering
buildings of the late 19th
a good contrast to one of
PLACE J
RUE D'AUTEUIL LORRAIN 4 RUE D'A U TE UIL century. Cross the avenue and Guimard’s last creations from
2
3 Eglise continue to the Avenue des 1926 next door – an Art Nouveau
RUE MICHEL ANGE Auteuil RUE BOILEAU 1 collection of weekend villas r at Castel Béranger but
façade much tamer than that
Chalets where there is a typical
Michel
Ange
d'Auteuil
still employing
recalling the quieter suburban
Auteuil of the mid-19th
brick, and with
projecting bay
century. Further along Rue de
l’Assomption, Notre-Dame de
terraced roof. Turn
l’Assomption t is a Neo- windows and a
Renaissance 19th-century left on Rue Jasmin.
church. Turn left into Rue du In the second cul-
Docteur Blanche. At No. 9 and de-sac on the left,
down the adjoining Rue Mallet- there is another
Stevens y, there is a row of Guimard house
celebrated modern houses in at No. 3 Square
the International Modern style Jasmin o. Towards
by the architect Robert Mallet- the end of Rue
Stevens. In this expensive, once Jasmin is the
No. 18 Rue de l’Assomption, detail w avant-garde enclave lived Metro station. The Age of Bronze e
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