Rue de la Paix (English: Peace Street) is a fashionable shopping street in the centre of Paris. Located in the 2nd arrondissement, running north from the Place Vendôme and ending at the Opéra Garnier, it is best known for its jewellers, such as the shop opened by Cartier in 1898. Charles Frederick Worth was the first to open a couture house on Rue de la Paix. Many buildings on the street are inspired in design by the hôtels particuliers of Place Vendôme.

• Rue de la Paix is the most expensive property in the French version of Monopoly – the equivalent to "Boardwalk" in the American version, or "Mayfair" in the UK version.

• Due to this, Rue de la Paix is referenced by French singer Zazie in her song of the same name, in which she compares societies based on consumerism to a game of Monopoly.

• Rue de la Paix is mentioned by Rhett Butler in the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell as the source of the green bonnet purchased to bring Scarlett O'Hara out of mourning.

• One of the villains in Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is named "Rudy Lepay".

• Also mentioned in the Noël Coward song: "Parisian Pierrot" (recorded 1936); "... Rue de la Paix is under your sway..."

• Also mentioned in the Leonard Gershe Rodger Edens song "Bonjour Paris" featured in the 1957 film Funny Face.

• In the closing scene of the 2019 X-men film Dark Phoenix, Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr play chess outside a café located on Rue de la Paix.

  Source: Wikipedia

Rue de la Paix by Jean Béraud, 1907