Street · France
Avenue Montaigne
in Paris
Portrait
It was the Allée des Veuves, the widows' walk, until 1850, a semi-rural lane where women in mourning could sit without being spoken to. Christian Dior opened at number 30 in 1946 and the street reorganised itself around him within a decade, which is the shortest interval in which any of these addresses became what it is.
This is a street, not an entry in the atlas. It resolves upward to the city that holds it.