Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud
{{Short description|Square in the Auteuil district in Paris}}
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| name = Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud
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| image = P1080212 Paris XVI place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud rwk.JPG
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| caption = View of the square.
| type = Square
| location = 16th arrondissement, Paris, France
| arrondissement = 16th
| quarter = Auteuil
| coordinates = {{coord|48|50|17|N|2|15|25|E|region:FR|display=inline,title}}
| direction_a =
| terminus_a = Boulevard Murat
Avenue Georges-Lafont
| direction_b =
| terminus_b = Avenue de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud
Avenue de Versailles
| inauguration_date = {{Start date|1929|03|04}}
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Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud is a thoroughfare in the Auteuil district of Paris's 16th arrondissement.
Location and access
Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud is served by line 9 at Porte de Saint-Cloud station.
Origin of name
This square is located on the former Porte de Saint-Cloud's site in Thiers' enceinte.
History
The square, created by the City of Paris in 1928 on the site of former bastions nos. 65 and 66,{{Cite web |title=La porte de Saint-Cloud, du pavillon d'octroi aux fontaines de la Seine - Autour de Paris-Le nouveau guide du Grand Paris |trans-title=The Porte de Saint-Cloud, from the toll pavilion to the fountains of the Seine - Around Paris - The new guide to Greater Paris |url=https://autour-de-paris.com/project/avant-apres-porte-saint-cloud-pavillon-octroi-fontaines-seine |access-date=June 6, 2021 |website=Autour de Paris |language=fr-FR}} received its current name through a decree of March 4, 1929. A subsequent decree on October 11, 1932, designated it as a Parisian roadway.
At its center, where an octroi barrier once stood, lies the garden of the Porte-de-Saint-Cloud traffic circle, home to the Porte de Saint-Cloud fountains since 1936.{{Cite web |date=April 4, 2021 |title=La renaissance des fontaines de la porte de Saint-Cloud |trans-title=The renaissance of the fountains at the Porte de Saint-Cloud |url=https://www.paris.fr/pages/la-renaissance-des-fontaines-de-la-porte-de-saint-cloud-17398 |access-date=June 5, 2021 |website=paris.fr |language=fr}}{{Cite web |last=Mitouard |first=Eric Le |date=April 12, 2021 |title=Paris : la résurrection des splendides fontaines de la porte de Saint-Cloud |trans-title=Paris: the resurrection of the splendid fountains of the Porte de Saint-Cloud |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-la-resurrection-des-splendides-fontaines-de-la-porte-de-saint-cloud-12-04-2021-8431049.php |access-date=June 5, 2021 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}
The square has been recognized with the "Patrimoine du XXe siècle" (20th-century heritage) label.
Buildings and places of remembrance
- Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal church and garden.
- Three of the four monumental animal statues that had been installed in the gardens of the Trocadero Palace during the 1878 Universal Exhibition were installed on Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud from 1935 to 1985. These were Pierre Louis Rouillard's Cheval à la Herse, Emmanuel Frémiet's Jeune éléphant pris au piège and Henri-Alfred Jacquemart's Rhinocéros. In 1986, they were restored at the Coubertin Foundation in Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse before being installed on the Orsay Museum forecourt.{{Cite web |title=Statues sur le parvis du musée d'Orsay |trans-title=Statues on the forecourt of the Musée d’Orsay |url=https://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/paris07/orsay_musee/statues.htm |access-date=March 23, 2020 |website=paris1900.lartnouveau.com |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Rhinocéros - Alfred Jacquemart {{!}} Musée d'Orsay |trans-title= |url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/rhinoceros-16045 |access-date=March 23, 2020 |website=musee-orsay.fr |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Eléphant pris au piège - Emmanuel Fremiet {{!}} Musée d'Orsay |trans-title=Elephant caught in a trap - Emmanuel Fremiet {{!}} Musée d'Orsay |url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/elephant-pris-au-piege-15075 |access-date=March 23, 2020 |website=musee-orsay.fr |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Cheval à la herse - Pierre Rouillard {{!}} Musée d'Orsay |trans-title=Horse with a Harrow - Pierre Rouillard {{!}} Musée d'Orsay |url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/cheval-la-herse-16017 |access-date=March 23, 2020 |website=musee-orsay.fr |language=fr}}
File:Plaque Albert Leroy, 6 place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud, Paris 16.jpg|Plaque at no. 6.
File:Dépôt de bus place de la porte de Saint-Cloud 1.jpg|Bus depot at no. 6 bis.
References
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