8th arrondissement of Paris

The 8th arrondissement of Paris (VIII^e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, the arrondissement is colloquially referred to as le huitième (lit. 'the eighth').

8th arrondissement of Paris
Municipal arrondissement
The Champs-Élysées during the Christmas season
Coat of arms
Location within Paris
Coordinates: 48°52′27″N 2°18′40″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Commune	Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jeanne d'Hauteserre (LR)
Area	3.88 km2 (1.50 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]	35,418
• Density	9,128/km2 (23,640/sq mi)
INSEE code	75108

The arrondissement, called Élysée, is situated on the right bank of the River Seine and centered on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The 8th arrondissement is, together with the 1st, 9th, 16th and 17th arrondissements, one of Paris' main business districts. According to the 1999 census, it was the place of employment of more people than any other single arrondissement of the capital. It is also the location of many places of interest, among them the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe (partial) and the Place de la Concorde, as well as the Élysée Palace, the official residence and office of the President of France.

Most French fashion luxury brands have their main store in 8th arrondissement, Avenue Montaigne or Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, both in the Champs-Élysées Avenue shopping district.^[2] As of 2019, the 8th arrondissement had a population of 35,655.

Geography

The land area of the arrondissement is 3.881 km² (1.498 sq mi; 959 acres).^{[citation needed]}

Population density

The arrondissement had its highest population of 107,485 in 1891. In 1999, it had almost a third of that number, with 39,310 residents. It is one of Paris' least densely populated arrondissements and contains 1.8% of the total population of Paris.^[3]

Historical population

Year (of French censuses)	Population	Density (inh. per km2)
1872	75,796	19,535
1891 (peak of population)	107,485	27,695
1954	80,827	20,832
1962	74,577	19,216
1968	67,897	17,495
1975	52,999	13,656
1982	46,403	11,956
1990	40,814	10,516
1999	39,310	10,130
2009	40,278	10,381
2021	35,123	9,052

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of the 8th arrondissement in 1999

Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
75.4%	24.6%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1	EU-15 immigrants2	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	0.6%	4.9%	8.5%	10.6%
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Map

Map of the 8th arrondissement

Economy

Former Alcatel-Lucent head office

The head offices of AXA,^[4] Bouygues,^[5] Électricité de France (EDF),^[6] Eurazeo,^[7] Ki-oon,^[8] Sanofi-Aventis, Engie,^[9] HSBC Continental Europe^[10] and Suez Environnement are located in this arrondissement.^[11] Standard & Poor's' France office is located in the 8th arrondissement.^[12] Air China and China Southern Airlines have their Paris offices in the arrondissement.^[13][14]

At one time, the head office of Union des Transports Aériens was located in this arrondissement.^[15] The predecessor airline, Union Aéromaritime de Transport, also had its head office in the 8th arrondissement.^[16] When Suez existed, its head office was in the 8th arrondissement.^[17] When Unibail existed, its head office was in the 8th arrondissement.^[18] At one time, Groupe Danone had its head office in the 8th arrondissement.^[19] At one time, Alcatel-Lucent's head office was located in the 8th arrondissement.^[20][21] At one time, Northwest Airlines had its Paris offices in the Madeleine station.^[22] At one time, All Nippon Airways operated a sales office in the 8th arrondissement.^[23]

Cityscape

Places of interest

• Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris
• American Cathedral in Paris
• Arc de Triomphe (one-third, shared with 16th and 17th arrondissements)
• Automobile Club de France
• Avenue des Champs-Élysées
• Chapelle Expiatoire
• Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-La-Consolation, Paris
• Église de la Madeleine
• Église Saint-Augustin
• Élysée Palace
• Four Seasons Hotel George V
• Gare Saint-Lazare
• Grand Palais
• Hôtel de Crillon
• Hôtel de Marigny
• Hôtel de la Marine
• Royal Monceau
• Lycée Chaptal
• Maxim's Art Nouveau "Collection 1900"
• Musée Cernuschi
• Musée Bouilhet-Christofle
• Musée Jacquemart-André
• Musée Nissim de Camondo
• The Obelisk (Obélisque) in the Place de la Concorde
• Pagoda Paris
• Palais de la Découverte
• Parc Monceau
• Petit Palais
• Pinacothèque de Paris
• Place de la Concorde
• Pont Alexandre III
• Pont de l'Alma
• Pont de la Concorde
• Pont des Invalides
• Salle Gaveau
• The Scots Kirk (l'Église écossaise de Paris)
• Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Rue Royale, from the Place de la Madeleine to the place de la Concorde in the 8th arrondissement.

Districts or neighborhoods

• Quartier des Champs-Élysées
• Quartier du Faubourg-du-Roule
• Quartier de la Madeleine
• Quartier de l'Europe

Streets and squares

Streets

Allée de la Comtesse-de-Ségur Allée Marcel-Proust Arcades des Champs-Élysées Avenue Beaucour Avenue Bertie-Albrecht Avenue César-Caire Avenue des Champs-Élysées Avenue Charles-Girault Avenue Delcassé Avenue Dutuit Avenue Edward-Tuck Avenue Ferdousi Avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt Avenue de Friedland Avenue Gabriel Avenue du Général-Eisenhower Avenue George-V Avenue Hoche Avenue Marceau Avenue de Marigny Avenue Matignon Avenue de Messine Avenue Montaigne Avenue Myron-T.-Herrick Avenue Percier Avenue Pierre-Ier-de-Serbie Avenue du Président-Wilson Avenue Ruysdaël Cité Odiot Avenue de Selves Avenue de Valois Avenue Van-Dyck Avenue Vélasquez Avenue de Wagram Avenue Winston-Churchill Boulevard des Batignolles Boulevard de Courcelles Boulevard Haussmann Boulevard de la Madeleine Boulevard Malesherbes Champs-Élysées Cité Berryer Cité du Retiro Cours Albert-Ier Cour du Havre Cour de l'Horloge Cours la Reine Cour de Rome Galerie de la Madeleine Impasse d'Amsterdam Impasse d'Antin

Impasse Bourdin Impasse Dany Impasse du Docteur- Jacques-Bertillon Impasse Fortin Impasse Ruffin Passage de la Madeleine Passage Marignan Passage Puteaux Passage Saint-Philippe- du-Roule Rond-point des Champs- Élysées-Marcel-Dassault Rue Pierre Charron Rue d'Aguesseau Rue Alfred-de-Vigny Rue d'Amsterdam Rue Andrieux Rue d'Anjou Rue de l'Arcade Rue d'Argenson Rue Arsène-Houssaye Rue d'Artois Rue d'Astorg Rue Balzac Rue de Bassano Rue Bayard Rue Beaujon Rue de Berne Rue Bernoulli Rue de Berri Rue Berryer Rue de la Bienfaisance Rue du Boccador Rue Boissy-d'Anglas Rue de Bucarest Rue Cambacérès Rue de Castellane Rue de Cérisoles Rue Chambiges Rue Chateaubriand Rue Chauveau-Lagarde Rue du Chevalier- de-Saint-George Rue Christophe-Colomb Rue du Cirque Rue Clapeyron Rue Clément-Marot Rue du Colisée

Rue du Commandant-Rivière Rue de Constantinople Rue de Copenhague Rue Corvetto Rue de Courcelles Rue Daru Rue du Docteur Lancereaux Rue Duphot Rue de Duras Rue d'Édimbourg Rue de l'Élysée Rue Euler Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré Rue François-Ier Rue de Florence Rue Frédéric-Bastiat Rue Galilée Rue du Général-Foy Rue Greffulhe Rue du Havre Rue Intérieure Rue de l'Isly Rue Jean-Goujon Rue Jean-Mermoz Rue Joseph-Sansbœuf Rue de La Baume Rue La Boétie Rue de Laborde Rue Lamennais Rue Larribe Rue de La Trémoille Rue Lavoisier Rue de Liège Rue Lincoln Rue de Lisbonne Rue de Londres Rue Lord-Byron Rue Louis-Murat Rue de Madrid Rue Magellan Rue Maleville Rue Marbeuf Rue de Marignan Rue des Mathurins Rue de Messine Rue de Miromesnil Rue Mollien Rue de Monceau Rue Montalivet Rue de Moscou

Rue Murillo Rue de Naples Rue de la Néva Rue Pasquier Rue Paul-Baudry Rue Paul-Cézanne Rue Pelouze Rue de Penthièvre Rue de la Pépinière Rue Pierre-Charron Rue Pierre-Le-Grand Rue de Ponthieu Rue Portalis Rue de Presbourg Rue de Provence Rue Quentin-Bauchart Rue Rabelais Rue Rembrandt Rue de la Renaissance Rue de Rigny Rue Robert-Estienne Rue du Rocher Rue de Rome Rue Roquépine Rue Roy Rue Royale Rue Saint-Florentin Rue Saint-Honoré Rue Saint-Lazare Rue Saint-Philippe-du-Roule Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg Rue des Saussaies Rue de Sèze Rue de Stockholm Rue de Surène Rue de Téhéran Rue de Tilsitt Rue Treilhard Rue Tronchet Rue Tronson-du-Coudray Rue de Turin Rue Vernet Rue de Vézelay Rue de Vienne Rue Vignon Rue de la Ville-l'Évêque Rue Washington Villa Nouvelle Villa Wagram-Saint-Honoré Voie Georges-Pompidou

Squares

Parc Monceau Place de l'Alma Place Beauvau Place de Budapest Place du Canada Place Charles de Gaulle Place Chassaigne-Goyon Place Clemenceau Place de Clichy Place de la Concorde Place de Dublin Place de l'Étoile Place de l'Europe Place François-Ier Place Gabriel-Péri

Place du Général-Brocard Place Georges-Guillaumin Place du Guatémala Place du Havre Place Henri-Bergson Place Henry-Dunant Place du Havre Place Jean-Pierre-Lévy Place de la Madeleine Place de Narvik Place du Pérou Place Prosper-Goubaux Place de la Reine-Astrid Place de la République-de-l'Équateur

Place de la République-Dominicaine Place de Rio-de-Janeiro Place Saint-Augustin Place des Saussaies Place des Ternes Rond-point des Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault Square Beaujon Square de Berlin Square de la Fondation Rothschild Square Jean-Perrin Square Louis XVI Square Marcel-Pagnol Square du Roule

Education

Lycée général et technologique Chaptal

There are two public sixth-form colleges (lycée) in the 8th arrondissement: Lycée Chaptal and Lycée Racine.^[24]

Private high schools:

• Cours Hattemer
• Lycée Fénelon Sainte-Marie

The École de langue japonaise de Paris (パリ日本語補習校 Pari Nihongo Hoshūkō), a supplementary Japanese education programme, has its offices at the Association Amicale des Ressortissants Japonais en France (AARJF) in the 8th arrondissement.^[25] The classes are held at the École Maternelle et Primaire Saint Francois d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement.^[26][27]

Intégrale : Institut d'enseignement supérieur privé has one of its campuses in the 8th arrondissement.

Harvard Business School's Europe Research Centre is located in rue Francois 1er.^[28]