[1] The boulevard stretches from Đồng Khởi Street, right across from Lam Sơn Square (in front of the Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City) to the Quách Thị Trang Square (in front of the Bến Thành Market).

They ordered the digging of a 800-metre canal with two drainages, the Saigon River (near the Marine barracks) and the arroyo Chinois.

One of its main goals was to drain the lower part of Saigon, which was then a pestilential swamp.

[4] The canal was eventually filled in to create an artery known as "rue n° 13", later changed to boulevard Bonard.

[4] In 1955, the boulevard was renamed Lê Lợi Boulevard by the government of South Vietnamafter the King Lê Lợi of the Later Lê Dynasty and the Place Augustin Foray where the northeast end of boulevard also renamed as Lam Sơn Square to tribute his leadership in the Lam Sơn uprising.