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The Avenue de Wagram is a street of the 8th and 17th arrondissement of Paris, starting at the Place Charles de Gaulle and arriving on the Place de Wagram. Its length is 1500 meters and a width of 36 metres. It is cut by up Ternes. The avenue was first opened on January 16, 1789, between rue de Tilsitt and rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore then on August 13, 1854, between the Place de l'Etoile (renamed the Place Charles de Gaulle) and rue de Tilsitt. The avenue has been called and March 2, 1864. Previously it was the boulevard of the Star or Bezons between the Avenue des Ternes and Place Charles de Gaulle and departmental Route No. 6 between the Avenue des Ternes and the Place de Wagram. Its name comes from the Battle of Wagram, victory of the Great French Army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte on the Austrian army, July 6, 1809.