Cream stone mansions with mansard roofs line a wide avenue from the Étoile to the Porte Dauphine.
What Avenue Foch looks like
Avenue Foch runs straight for about 1.3 kilometers from the Étoile to the Porte Dauphine. Including its gardens, the avenue is 120 meters wide. Rows of trees line both sides of the roadway, and cobbles show at the junctions.
Cream stone mansions with mansard roofs and dormer windows line the avenue. The mansion at number 38 has seven storeys. The fronts carry carved stone brackets and wrought-iron balconies. Some of the balconies have planted rails and clipped topiary. Modern blocks from the 1960s and 1970s replaced many mansions and stand between the older fronts, with plainer faces.
The at number 59 is a Belle Époque mansion of 1875, with showrooms kept in their original state, a courtyard and stables. The at number 34 dates from 1900 and has colossal Corinthian pilasters on its facade. The at number 12 occupies the Hôtel de Breteuil, built by Ernest Sanson in 1902. The at number 19 occupies the Hôtel Ephrussi de Rothschild.
The stands at the far end, just before the Porte Dauphine. The stands on the even side, near rue Chalgrin.
Shot in Avenue Foch
Claude Lelouch's 1976 short film C'était un rendez-vous was filmed in one take from a car. Lelouch said the car reached 200 km/h on the avenue's long straight.
C'était un rendez-vous, 1976
The shot begins in the Périphérique tunnel, where the car takes the Porte Dauphine slip road onto the avenue. The route then passes the Arc de Triomphe and runs along the Champs-Élysées. Street View
What Avenue Foch can double for
Avenida Alvear in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Avenida Alvear was plotted in 1885. Its palaces are in French academic style and give the avenue a Parisian air. Street signs and vehicles give Buenos Aires away in a wide shot, so frame single palace fronts tight. Try searching French style palaces now.
Avenue Louise has a tree-lined stretch from Place Stéphanie, and its town houses date from the 1890s and early 1900s. They are the closest match in scale to the mansions on Avenue Foch. The sunken central lane and its three tunnels in the northern section give Brussels away in a wide shot, so frame the side lanes and the facades. Try searching Brussels town houses now.
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