Avenue Victor-Hugo (Paris) Avenue Victor-Hugo (Paris) Avenue Victor-Hugo is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It begins at place Charles de Gaulle (also known as the Étoile) and ends at place Tattegrain (becoming avenue Henri-Martin). It is one of the twelve avenues beginning at the Étoile, and the second longest of the twelve, after the avenue des Champs-Élysées. Its junction with the Étoile is between those of the avenue Foch and avenue Kléber. It runs along the colline de Chaillot. Halfway along it is place Victor-Hugo and the Line 2 Metro station Victor Hugo. Originally named avenue de Saint-Cloud, it was
Avenue Foch of the First World War, who died in that year. During the Second World War, the headquarters of the Gestapo was located for a time at number 72, and the office of Section IV B4 of the Gestapo, the Juden Referat, which was responsible for the arrest and deportation of French Jews to the concentration camps, had its office at 31 bis Avenue Foch. The street was nicknamed « avenue Boche » by the Parisians ("Boche" being a slang word for "German"). The gardens of Avenue Foch occupy a space of 6.62 hectares, in the space 1200 meters long and