Avenue des Français

Avenue des Français was a wide, palm-lined, seaside street in Beirut, Lebanon,[1] and now part of the pedestrian promenade, the Shoreline Walk.

Avenue des Français was created out of the widening of the former Rue Minet El Hosn during the period of the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon as part of an urban renewal project planned for the capital.

[1] Due to its broad sidewalks, palm trees, and chic hotels, the avenue quickly became the favored esplanade for the prominent families of the city.

[2] Gustafson Porter's chain of public squares ran through the land that was reclaimed from the Normandy dump along the line of the original shoreline,[10] straddling the old and new sections of the city.

[11] In designing the Shoreline Gardens, Gustafson Porter incorporated a linear water feature as a contemporary interpretation of the sea wall that once existed along the avenue.