Paris trivia: anniversary of Magenta, boulevard dedicated to the battle

Wonderful post. I hope this can continue.

I'll add the name of street below where I live. Below the Parc de Belleville, the rue di Pali-Kao which was named to celebrate the Anglo-French victory over the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao in the second Opium war of 1860. A French punk rock group used this as a title of one of their albums that was recorded in the former factory on the site used as a "squat" by French rockers. The French authors Jean Echenoz and Daniel Pennac use this location in their novels.

For all sorts of reasons, there aren't many street referrals to French activity in the far East. This is one

Very interesting M. '20 -- I think I know the Couronnes metro station but I would never have looked at that particular street of apartments.

In Notting Hill in London is the Portobello Road, known best to Americans as the setting for romantic comedies in the '90s.

The 280th anniversary of the Battle of Porto Bello, part of the curiously named War of Jenkins' Ear, will be this coming November. At a celebration the following year (1740) the Greens' Lane was renamed in celebration of the British victory over the Spanish in what is now Panama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobello_Road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Porto_Bello

That war between France and Austria in 1859 did not end with the battle of Magenta.

One more bloody battle would be needed to decide the issue...Solferino, the losses of which revolted both emperors, Napoleon III and Franz Joseph. Between the two of them, they concluded a truce...Villafranca. Neither the Emperor Franz Joseph nor the Emperor Napoleon III had demonstrated any particular skill as a military commander. at either battle.

The real Battle of Magenta was me when I got the paint mix wrong for our front door. https://daysontheclaise.blogspot.com/2008/07/our-door-part-2.html Just one of the hazards of living in France is the heritage of villages covers many things - including paint colours!

Ouch...

"...favourite war-related place names in Paris....?

I'll say these in Paris: Metro stations: Wagram, Pyramides, Drouot, Solferino, Ourcq, Gare d'Austerlirz, Campo Formio,

Cambronne,

other places...pont de l'Alma, pont d'Iena, Place Vendome, Place de Rivoli.

There are so many. Passage de Caire, the oldest in Paris opened in 1797 after Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and the Rue de Caire. Passage de Caire is also the longest passage. Other Egyptian battles commemorated in place names are Rue Alexandrie, Rue d'Aboukir, after the naval battle with the English all in the 2nd arrondissement garment district

Then there are the battles with the Spanish, the most important being the Battle of Rocroi, often spelled Rocroy honored by a street in the 10th near gare de l"Est

Not just Paris, but no town or village in France is complete without a Rue or Place Charles de Gaulle.

Paris is full of places named after battles (curiously only battles the French won), for example Gare de Austerlitz.
In London it is rarer, there is the Waterloo district, and Waterloo station. Named after the battle in which Napolean was finally defeated (1815).
When the train service through the Channel Tunnel started, it ran from Waterloo station, as the station previously used for trains to France (Victoria) had no expansion room. Some French did not like this, and suggested re-naming Gare du Nord as Gare de Hastings (1066).

There is also Alesia, Stalingrad and Bir Hakelm as Metro stations named after battles.

In the Chateau Versailles in the Battle Galerie you will see the big wall painting of Rocroi along with Austerlitz, Jena, plus Yorktown in which French officers are featured. Of course, Waterloo is omitted as well as Leipzig.

I was just searching for LaFayette - related items like the Galleries and the Boulevard in Paris only to discover that many have beaten us to the punch -- there are wikipedia articles both for streets and locations and also for statues and memorials:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_for_the_Marquis_de_Lafayette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honors_and_memorials_to_the_Marquis_de_Lafayette

and these articles focus mostly on the US and are incomplete. Phew!

Places in Paris with names of battles won by the French, but of course, aside from Gare d"Austerlitz are Solferino, Wagram, Pont d'Iena, Place de Rivoli, Pont de l'Alma, Pyramides.

Yorktown, Friedland, and Fontenoy should be included as well.