2nd arrondissement of Paris
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| 2nd arrondissement of Paris | |
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| The former Paris Bourse, located in the 2nd arrondissement. | |
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| Paris and its closest suburbs | |
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| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Paris |
| Mayor | Jacques Boutault (The Greens) |
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| Land area¹ | 0.99 km² |
| Population² (July 1, 2005 estimate) (March 8, 1999 census) |
20,700 19,585 |
| -Density (2005) | 20,867/km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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The 2nd arrondissement (2e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. Located on the right bank of the River Seine, the 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent 8th and 9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on the Paris Opéra, which houses the city's densest concentration of business activities. The arondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and a large number of banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier, and the Opéra-Comique concert hall.
The 2nd arrondissment is also the home of all of Paris's surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades. At the beginning of the 19th century most of the streets of Paris were dark and muddy and lacked sidewalks. A few entrepreneurs copied the success of the Passage des Panoramas and its well-lit, dry and paved pedestrian passageways. By the middle of the 19th century there were about two dozen of these commercial malls, but most of them disappeared as the Paris authorities paved the main streets, added sidewalks and gas street lighting. The commercial survivors are – in addition to the Passage des Panoramas – the Galerie Vivienne, the Passage Choiseul, the Galerie Colbert, the Passage des Princes, the Passage du Grand Cerf, the Passage du Caire, the Passage Lemoine, the Passage Jouffroy, the passage Basfour, the passage du Bourg-L'abbé, and the Passage du Ponceau.
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[edit] Geography
The 2nd arrondissement is Paris's smallest arrondissement, with a land area of just 0.992 km2 (0.383 sq. miles, or 245 acres)
[edit] Demographics
The 2nd arrondissement reached its peak of settlement in the years before 1861, although it has only existed in its current shape since the re-organization of Paris in 1860. As of the last census (in 1999), the population was 19,585, while the number of jobs provided there was 61,672 – this despite a land area of only 0.992 km2, making it the arrondissement with the densest concentration of commercial activity in the capital, with an average of 62,695 jobs per km2.
[edit] Historical population
| Year (of French censuses) |
Population | Density (inh. per km2) |
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| 1861 (peak of population)¹ | 81,609 | 82,267 |
| 1872 | 73,578 | 74,321 |
| 1954 | 41,780 | 44,300 |
| 1962 | 40,864 | 41,194 |
| 1968 | 35,357 | 35,642 |
| 1975 | 26,328 | 26,540 |
| 1982 | 21,203 | 21,374 |
| 1990 | 20,738 | 20,905 |
| 1999 | 19,585 | 19,743 |
| 2005 | 20,700 | 20,867 |
¹The peak of population actually occurred before 1861, but the
arrondissement was created in 1860, so we do not have figures before 1861.
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[edit] Map
[edit] Cityscape
[edit] Places of interest in the arrondissement
- Paris stock exchange (Palais Brongniart, former headquarters)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France historical building (site Richelieu) (Monument historique)
- Passage des Panoramas
- Opéra-Comique
- Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
- Théâtre des Variétés
- Théâtre-Musée des Capucines, a perfume museum
- Café de la Paix
- Tour Jean sans Peur, the last vestige of the Hôtel de Bourgogne
[edit] Main streets and squares
- Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle
- Place de la Bourse
- Boulevard des Capucines
- Rue des Capucines
- Rue de Cléry
- Rue Étienne-Marcel
- Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre
- Boulevard des Italiens
- Rue du Louvre
- Rue Monsigny
- Boulevard Montmartre
- Rue Montmartre
- Rue Montorgueil
- Rue Notre-Dame des Victoires
- Avenue de l'Opéra (partial)
- Rue de la Paix
- Rue des Petits-Champs
- Boulevard Poissonnière
- Rue du Quatre-Septembre
- Rue Réaumur
- Rue de Richelieu (partial)
- Boulevard Saint-Denis
- Rue Saint-Denis
- Rue Saint-Sauveur
- Boulevard Sébastopol
- Rue de Turbigo
- Place des Victoires (partial)
[edit] References
- Le Guide du routard 2006: Paris.
- 54 Promenades en Famille. A Paris et en Ile-de-France.
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Coordinates: 48°52′09″N 2°20′26″E / 48.86917°N 2.34056°E
