Grands Boulevards: history and sights
Served by: metro lines 8 and 9.
Did you know?
Serves the Grands Boulevards, a fashionable 19th-century thoroughfare lined with theatres and cafés, where the Lumière brothers held the first paid public film screenings in 1895.
Anecdote
It was at the Grand Café on Boulevard des Capucines that the Lumière brothers screened their first film to a paying audience.
Around Grands Boulevards
- À la Mère de Famille, 300 m away — Paris's oldest confectionery and chocolate shop, opened in 1761, with a Belle Époque façade and interior listed as historic monuments.
- Grand Rex, 400 m away — The largest cinema still operating in Europe, opened in 1932, famous for its Art Deco façade.
- Musée Grévin, 70 m away — A wax museum founded in 1882, featuring life-size figures of celebrities.
- Passage Jouffroy, 160 m away — A 19th-century covered passage housing antique shops, the Musée Grévin and a historic hotel.