Auteuil, Paris

Auteuil (French pronunciation: [otœj] ⓘ) is the 61st and westernmost quarter of Paris, France, located in the 16th arrondissement, on the Right Bank.

It is adjacent to Passy to the northeast (administratively part of la Muette), Boulogne-Billancourt to the southwest, and the Bois de Boulogne to the northwest.

[1] Auteuil was originally a hamlet named Attolium[2] on the outskirts of Paris, built between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries; it became a fashionable country retreat for French elites during the reign of Louis XV.

They pulled strings and became the 16th, the unlucky association and postmark being transferred to the blameless but less influential folks around Porte d'Italie.

In The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, the main (fictional) character Edmond Dantès buys his country residence in Auteuil.