Avenue Foch with chestnut trees along its full length. The Avenue was constructed during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, as part of the grand plan for the reconstruction of Paris conducted by Napoleon's Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. It was designed to connect the Place d'Etoile with another important part of Haussmann's plan, the Bois de Boulogne, the new public park on the west end of the city. The original plan, by Jacques Hittorff, who had designed the Place de la Concorde decades earlier, called for an avenue forty meters wide between the modern Avenue Victor Hugo and the modern
Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City Gilmore Avenue is one of the main roads in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It runs from Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue in Quezon City and terminates in Nicanor Domingo Street, continuing on as Granada Street until it reaches the San Juan border, where it becomes Ortigas Avenue. The road is named for Eugene Allen Gilmore, Vice Governor-General of the Philippines from 1922 to 1929 who twice served as acting Governor-General. The Aurora Boulevard intersection of Gilmore Avenue is well known for being one of the main shopping centers for IT-related products such as computers, and