Toward the Seine
Versailles Avenue
Avenue de Versailles begins at 2 Quai Louis Blériot and Place Clément-Ader, near the Radio France building and the Seine, and ends at Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud.
This avenue, formerly known as the Route de Versailles or Route de la Reine, and later as the Chaussée d’Auteuil, is a former section of National Route 10 from Paris to Bayonne. Its current name stems from the fact that it is the starting point of the Route de Versailles.
Did you know that there are no fewer than six replicas of the Statue of Liberty on display around the world?
The best-known one is located near the Grenelle Bridge and was installed in 1889. It was donated to France by the Committee of Americans in Paris to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution. It was created at the same time as the original statue by Auguste Bartholdi.
But no fewer than five others are located in Paris itself: in the Luxembourg Gardens, at the Musée d’Orsay, two at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, and the last one—which is tiny—adorns the chest of the Centaur on Place Michel Debré (created by César and completed in 1985).
It is an artificial island created in the middle of the Seine, between Paris’s 15th and 16th arrondissements, in 1827. Entirely pedestrian-only, it can be accessed either via the Pont de Grenelle entrance or via the Bir Hakeim Bridge, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
A pleasant, tree-lined walk of nearly one kilometer, it is, however, narrow (only 11 meters wide!) and offers views of the banks of the Seine on both sides—the Beaugrenelle skyscrapers on one side and the Passy neighborhood on the other.
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