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Encyclopedia > IIe arrondissement

2nd arrondissement of Paris
The former Paris Bourse, located in the 2nd arrondissement.
Location
Paris and its closest suburbs
Administration
Region Île-de-France
Department Paris
Mayor Jacques Boutault
Statistics
Land area¹ 0.99 km²
Population²
(1999 census)
19,585
 -Density (1999) 19,743/km²
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).
France
The 20
arrondissements
of Paris
17th 18th 19th
  8th 9th 10th 11th 20th
16th 2nd 3rd
1st 4th 12th
Seine river
  7th 6th 5th 13th
15th 14th

The 2nd arrondissement (2e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. Located on the right bank of the River Seine, the 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent 8th and 9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on the Paris Opéra, which houses the city's densest concentration of business activities. The arondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and a large number of banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier, and the Opéra-Comique concert hall. The municipal arrondissement (French: arrondissement municipal, pronounced ), more simply referred to as arrondissement, is a level of administrative division in France lower than the commune. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... 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The 2nd arrondissment is also the home of all of Paris's surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades. At the beginning of the 19th century most of the streets of Paris were dark and muddy and lacked sidewalks. A few entrepreneurs copied the success of the Passage des Panoramas and its well-lit, dry and paved pedestrian passageways. By the middle of the 19th century there were about two dozen of these commercial malls, but most of them disappeared as the Paris authorities paved the main streets, added sidewalks and gas street lighting. The commercial survivors are – in addition to the Passage des Panoramas – the Galerie Vivienne, the Passage Choiseul, the Galerie Colbert, the Passage des Princes, the Passage du Grand Cerf, the Passage du Caire, the Passage Lemoine, the Passage Jouffroy, the passage Basfour, the passage du Bourg-L'abbé, and the Passage du Ponceau. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Passage des Panoramas is a roofed commercial passageway located in the IIe arrondissement, of Paris between the Montmartre boulevard to the North and Saint-Marc street to the south. ... A streetlight in front of a red sky at night A street light, also known as a light standard, is a raised light on the edge of a road, turned on or lit at a certain time every night. ...

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Geography

The 2nd arrondissement is Paris's smallest arrondissement, with a land area of just 0.992 km² (0.383 sq. miles, or 245 acres)


Demographics

The 2nd arrondissement reached its peak of settlement in the years before 1861, although it has only existed in its current shape since the re-organization of Paris in 1860. As of the last census (in 1999), the population was 19,585, while the number of jobs provided there was 61,672 – this despite a land area of only 0.992 km², making it the arrondissement with the densest concentration of commercial activity in the capital, with an average of 62,695 jobs per km².


Historical population

Year
(of French censuses)
Population Density
(inh. per km²)
1861 (peak of population) 81,609 82,267
1872 73,578 74,321
1954 41,780 44,300
1962 40,864 41,194
1968 35,357 35,642
1975 26,328 26,540
1982 21,203 21,374
1990 20,738 20,905
1999 19,585 19,743

Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ...

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of the 2nd arrondissement in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France
71.4% 28.6%
Born in
Overseas France
Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants
0.8% 3.8% 6.1% 17.9%
¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Metropolitan France Metropolitan France (French: or la Métropole) is the part of France located in Europe, including Corsica (French: Corse). ... French overseas departments and territories The French Overseas Departments and Territories (French: départements doutre-mer and territoires doutre-mer or DOM-TOM) consist broadly of French-administered territories outside of Europe. ... Pied-noir (plural: pieds-noirs) is a term for the former population of European descent of North Africa, especially Algeria. ... A map showing Northwest Africa Northwest Africa is the northwestern part of Africa. ...

Map

Map of the 2nd arrondissement
Map of the 2nd arrondissement


Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 330 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 412 pixel, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 330 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 412 pixel, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. ...

Mairie, 8 rue de la Banque
Mairie, 8 rue de la Banque

Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 559 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Mairie du IIe arrondissement Auteur : Gérard Janot File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 559 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Mairie du IIe arrondissement Auteur : Gérard Janot File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...

Cityscape

Places of interest in the arrondissement

The Paris Bourse (or Bourse de Paris in French) is the Paris stock exchange, known as Euronext Paris from 2000 onwards. ... Opéra comique is a French style of opera that is a partial counterpart to the Italian opera buffa. ... The Passage des Panoramas is a roofed commercial passageway located in the IIe arrondissement, of Paris between the Montmartre boulevard to the North and Saint-Marc street to the south. ...

Main streets and squares

  • Place de la Bourse
  • Avenue de l'Opéra (partial)
  • Rue du Quatre-Septembre
  • Rue Réaumur
  • Rue Montmartre
  • Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre
  • Rue Notre-Dame des Victoires
  • Rue Saint-Denis
  • Rue Saint-Sauveur
  • Rue du Louvre
  • Rue de Turbigo
  • Rue Étienne-Marcel
  • Rue des Petits-Champs
  • Boulevard des Capucines
  • Boulevard des Italiens
  • Boulevard Montmartre
  • Boulevard Poissonnière
  • Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle
  • Boulevard Saint-Denis
  • Boulevard Sébastopol
  • Rue des Capucines
  • Rue de Cléry
  • Rue Monsigny

The Avenue de lOpéra is a street in Paris, France. ... Saint-Denis in winter in the Quartier-Latin Saint-Denis Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in Montreal, Quebec. ...

References

  • Le guide du routard 2006: Paris.
  • 54 Promenades en Famille. A Paris et en Ile-de-France.
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