| Boulevard Richard-Lenoir | |
| Map Type: | France Paris |
| Map Size: | 265 |
| Coordinates: | 48.8599°N 2.3719°W |
| Arrondissement: | 11th |
| Quarter: | Bastille |
| Terminus A: | Bastille |
| Terminus B: | Avenue de la République |
| Inauguration Label: | Denomination |
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, running from the Bastille to the Avenue de la République, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris by Baron Haussmann during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III.
The Boulevard is named after François Richard https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Richard-Lenoir (1765-1839) and Joseph Lenoir-Dufresne https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lenoir-Dufresne (1768-1806), business-partner industrialists who brought the cotton industry to Paris and northern France in the 18th and early 19th century. It is the site of a weekly art market and of a bi-weekly fruit and vegetable market that is one of the largest in Paris.
Georges Simenon's famous detective Jules Maigret is portrayed as living at 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.[1]