Boulevard de Sébastopol

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The boulevard of Sevastopol is a Parisian boulevard between the 1st and 2nd districts, on the one hand, 3rd and 4th arrondissements on the other. Long of 1332 meters and a width of 30, he left the Place du Chatelet and continues north on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. It is primarily a means of circulation equipped with three-way car and a bus corridor. Although it has some restaurants and many shops, the boulevard of Sevastopol is not really a place of leisure, unlike the Marais and the Halles between which it comes. The boulevard of Sevastopol is one of the most important breakthroughs by Haussmann during the transformation of Paris. It is an important part of major new north-south axis running through the centre of Paris. Opened in 1854, it bears the first name boulevard du Centre. It was renamed a few days after the victory on September 8, 1855 by troops of Napoleon III in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea. For a few years, the boulevard of Sevastopol continues on the shore left to rue Cujas: This section will receive in 1867 the name of Boulevard Saint-Michel.