Avenue Marceau

The Avenue Marceau is a major street in western Paris, France. It runs from Place Charles de Gaulle 900 meters south-south-east to Avenue du Président-Wilson, near the Place de l'Alma on the Seine. Primarily an upscale residential street, the Avenue is the boundary between the Champs-Élysées neighborhood in the 8th Arrondissement and the Chaillot neighborhood in the 16th.The Avenue is named after General François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), a commander in the French Revolutionary Wars.