Rue des Saussaies

Coordinates: 48°52′16.5″N 2°19′3″E / 48.871250°N 2.31750°E / 48.871250; 2.31750
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Rue des Saussaies is a short (50m long) street in the VIIIe arrondissement of Paris that adjoins the Ministry of the Interior. It begins at place Beauvau and finishes at place Saussaies. At number 10 lived the comte de Ségur, Napoleon I's master of ceremonies.

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48°52′16.5″N 2°19′3″E / 48.871250°N 2.31750°E / 48.871250; 2.31750

In Fiction

Rue des Saussaies figures in the novel The World at Night by Alan Furst, as the location of the headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo intelligence offices. The character Jean Casson is interrogated and escapes over the rooftop to the adjoining National Meteorological Office.