Passy

By on 25/08/2010 in Paris

Passy Area Paris France

Passy area Paris France

Passy area Paris France

Passy is an area of Paris, France, located in the 16th arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is traditionally home to many of the city’s wealthiest residents.

Passy was formerly a commune. It was annexed to Paris in 1860.

People with ties to Passy

  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Gioacchino Rossini
  • Félix Antoine Appert (1817-1891)
  • Paul de Kock
  • General Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine
  • Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Pierre Bretonneau
  • Louis-Guillaume Le Veillard, the first mayor of Passy.
  • Giuseppe Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi spent two summers, (1848 and 1849), in Passy, during the maestro’s time in Paris
  • William Kissam Vanderbilt, the American railroad tycoon, kept a home in Passy
  • Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, Early important photographic artist, Courtesan, supposed secret agent, mistress to Napoleon III, lived in a house he bought for her in 1857 and lived on in the area until the mid 1870s.
  • Pierre-Louis Pierson, Photographic Artist, Collaberated with the Countess of Castiglione, to create some of the most iconic photographs of the nineteenth century from the 1850s to the 1890s at his home in passy. (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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