The City of Paris’s cinema-location guide includes Place Pigalle among the sites linked to Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. It places the film’s restless young protagonist within an identifiable Paris geography. The square is a neighbourhood stop; this draft does not assign an unverified exact shot position.
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The City of Paris’s cinema-location guide includes Place Pigalle among the sites linked to Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. It places the film’s restless young protagonist within an identifiable Paris geography. The square is a neighbourhood stop; this draft does not assign an unverified exact shot position.
Explore 5 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
The City of Paris’s cinema-location guide includes Place Pigalle among the sites linked to Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. It places the film’s restless young protagonist within an identifiable Paris geography. The square is a neighbourhood stop; this draft does not assign an unverified exact shot position.
Respect current site access, ticket requirements and local restrictions. Area markers do not identify exact camera positions.
Open street map ↗︎Antoine's family geography begins at place Gustave-Toudouze
The City of Paris cinema guide lists 4 place Gustave-Toudouze among the addresses associated with The 400 Blows. The apartment exterior anchors Antoine's domestic world while the map avoids claiming access to the private interior.
Paris — 130 ans de cinéma dans le 9e / The 400 Blows locations ↗︎
4 place Gustave-Toudouze, 75009 Paris
Open street map ↗︎The school exterior keeps Antoine inside Truffaut's Paris
The City of Paris cinema guide records 85 rue de Vaugirard as one of the film's school addresses. The World distinguishes the documented exterior from classroom interiors and from the reform-school material filmed outside Paris.
Paris — 130 ans de cinéma dans le 9e / The 400 Blows locations ↗︎
85 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
Open street map ↗︎The opening credits travel toward the Eiffel Tower
The City of Paris guide identifies the Eiffel Tower and Champ de Mars in the film's opening Paris geography. The landmark is mapped as the public site used by the moving camera, not as an invented single frame position.
Paris — 130 ans de cinéma dans le 9e / The 400 Blows locations ↗︎
Champ de Mars, 75007 Paris
Open street map ↗︎Avenue Frochot supplies René's exterior geography
The City of Paris guide and supporting location research identify Avenue Frochot as the exterior associated with René's home. The lane remains residential and partly private, so the record is deliberately area-level.
Paris — 130 ans de cinéma dans le 9e / The 400 Blows locations ↗︎
Avenue Frochot, 75009 Paris
Open street map ↗︎Follow the work through its real places.
The 400 Blows
Rooftops, café windows and the river between scenes. An invitation to wander beyond the frame.
Freeze: run the film’s places past a camera car and freeze the frame where you want to stop, or let it run to the sea; spin the Pigalle Rotor until the floor drops, and flip Antoine’s story to Truffaut’s own.
Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.
Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. Born on 23 January 1928, this profile follows Jeanne Moreau through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The 400 Blows. The location trail reaches Doinel family home exterior, The 400 Blows school exterior and Eiffel Tower / Champ de Mars. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Jean-Pierre Léaud is a French actor. Born on 28 May 1944, this profile follows Jean-Pierre Léaud through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The 400 Blows. The location trail reaches Doinel family home exterior, The 400 Blows school exterior and Eiffel Tower / Champ de Mars. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
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