Street · Champs-Élysées (8th) · 8e arrondissement

Rue Pierre-Charron

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A street-level record only. The depot's building number is unknown, and this record deliberately does not guess at one.

The street where Edith Wharton's refugee organisations ran a grocery depot during the First World War. No building number survives in the record, so this is a street-level entry rather than an address.

Address: rue Pierre-Charron, 75008 Paris
Years: The First World War

The place, briefly

Feeding people was a large part of what Edith Wharton's wartime organisations actually did, and a grocery depot on the rue Pierre-Charron was part of the machinery — a distribution point for refugee families receiving support.

The honest thing to say about this record is what it does not contain. Wharton's chronology identifies the depot on this street but gives no building number, and no directory or relief archive consulted for this entry supplies one. Rather than pick a plausible building and pin it, the record marks the street and says so.

The rue Pierre-Charron runs between the Champs-Élysées and the avenue Montaigne, in a quarter that is now expensive retail. If a number turns up in a trade directory or a relief-organisation archive, this entry should be upgraded to a proper address.

Key facts

What was here: A grocery depot serving Wharton's refugee organisations
When: The First World War
Building number: Not recorded — this is a street-level entry only
Access: A public street

Timeline

1914–1918
A grocery depot for refugees operates on the rue Pierre-Charron.

On the map

Questions before you go

Where exactly was Wharton's grocery depot?

On the rue Pierre-Charron in the 8th arrondissement. The surviving record does not give a building number, so no specific address can honestly be assigned.

Writers who knew this place

Edith Wharton

American · American novelist of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, who left New York for Paris in 1907, kept an apartment on the rue de Varenne in the Faubourg Saint-Germain — the aristocratic quarter on the Left Bank — for thirteen years, ran refugee charities through the First World War that earned her the Légion d'honneur, France's highest national honour, in 1916, and became, in 1921, the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize, America's foremost literary award, for a novel.

Worked here

Wharton's chronology identifies a grocery depot for refugees on the rue Pierre-Charron but gives no building number, so this remains a street-level record rather than an address.

— Edith Wharton: A Chronology

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