The rue de la Victoire (=Victory street) is a street in the IXe arrondissement

IXe arrondissement

The 9th arrondissement , located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. It contains many places of cultural, historical, and architectural interest, including the Palais Garnier, home to the Paris Opera, Boulevard Haussmann and its large department stores of Galeries...

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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The former name of the street was "rue Chantereine" ("Chantereine"="Singing frogs", because at that time, the quarter was swampy and there were many frogs). The street took the name "rue de la Victoire" from 1797 to 1816 after the victorious campaign of Napoleon in Italy. There was also an hotel belonging to Napoleon in the street.

Notable places

• n° 44 : the Grande synagogue of Paris.
• n°58-60, former hôtel Beauharnais, from where Napoleon Bonaparte organized the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire
  18 Brumaire
  The coup of 18 Brumaire was the coup d'état by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate...
  
  
• n° 98bis : (at the junction with rue Joubert
  Rue Joubert
  The rue Joubert is a street in the IXe arrondissement of Paris, France.It is named after General Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, who was fatally wounded at the Battle of Novi in 1799....
  
  ) : hôtel of the French architecte François-Joseph Bélanger. When he was released from Saint-Lazare jail during the French Revolution, he rebuilt it in pompeian style for his wife, the dancer Mademoiselle Dervieux.