Boulevard Poissonniere, Paris, France - Framed Picture - 11x14

The boulevard Poissonnière is one of the boulevards of Paris built on the site of the enclosure of Louis XIII.

The boulevard owes its name to the nearby Rue Poissonniere , which holds it itself because it was the way by which the fish supplying the Halles arrived in Paris from the north coast of France.

In Bel-Ami , the writer Guy de Maupassant made his character Georges Duroy work at the newspaper La Vie française , boulevard Poissonnière 5.