The boulevard was created on the location of former fortifications built by the French colonial regime following the destruction of the eastern ramparts of the city at the level of the fort of
Bab Azoun and the extension of the urbanization in the direction of the suburb of Agha. It was then named for
Édouard Laferrière, a distinguished jurist who had died in mid-1901 shortly after the end of his service as
French Governor-General of Algeria. The grounds were acquired in 1900 by a private company, the , which developed it as they were made available by the military. The development included several public buildings, namely a customs administration building (completed in 1908), the
Grande Poste d'Alger, and the
Government Palace. ==Gallery==