What is the name of the street in Paris where Jim Morrison died?

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Jim Morrison died at his apartment on Rue Beautreillis in Paris. The address was 17–19 Rue Beautreillis, in the Le Marais neighborhood’s 4th arrondissement.

Morrison moved to Paris in March 1971 to join his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, after taking a leave of absence from The Doors. He spent much of his time walking through the city and working on poetry while the band’s album L.A. Woman was being released in the United States.

On July 3, 1971, Courson found Morrison dead in the apartment’s bathtub. He was 27. His death certificate listed heart failure as the official cause, and French authorities did not require an autopsy, leaving later theories about the circumstances unresolved.

The street is sometimes confused with Père Lachaise Cemetery, where Morrison was buried, or with the Rock ’n’ Roll Circus nightclub, which features in some alternative accounts of his final hours. Those places are associated with his death story, but Rue Beautreillis is the street where he was living and died.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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