Place des Vosges
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Length | 140 m (460 ft) |
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Width | 140 m (460 ft) |
Arrondissement | 3rd, 4th |
Quarter | Archives. Arsenal. |
Coordinates | 48°51′20″N 2°21′56″E / 48.85556°N 2.36556°E |
From | rue de Birague, 11 bis |
To | rue de Béarn, 1 |
Construction | |
Completion | July 1605 |
The Place des Vosges (French pronunciation:
History
Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m × 140 m), it embodied one of the first European programs of royal city planning (Plaza Mayor in Madrid, begun in 1590, precedes it). It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died. Catherine de' Medici had the Gothic complex demolished, and she moved to the Louvre Palace.
The Place Royale, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand
The square was often the place for the nobility to chat, and served as a meeting place for them. This was so until the Revolution.
Before the square was completed, Henri IV ordered the Place Dauphine to be laid out. Within a mere five-year period, the king oversaw an unmatched building scheme for the ravaged medieval city: additions to the Louvre Palace, the Pont Neuf, and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares.
Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of
Today the square is planted with a bosquet of mature lindens set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens.
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Residents of the Place des Vosges
- No. 1bis: Madame de Sevigné was born here
- No. 6 (Maison de Victor Hugo): Victor Hugo's home from 1832 to 1848, in what was then the Hôtel de Rohan (the Princes of Guéménée line), now a museum devoted to his memory, managed by the City of Paris
- No. 7: Sully, Henri IV's great minister
- No. 8: poet Théophile Gautier and writer Alphonse Daudet
- No. 9 (Hôtel de Chaulnes): seat of l'Académie d'Architecture, currently also tenanted by Galerie Historisimus
- No. 11: courtesan Marion Delorme from 1639 to 1648
- No. 12: natural philosopher and mathematician Émilie du Châtelet[2]
- No. 14 (Hôtel de la Rivière): rabbi David Feuerwerker, Antoinette Feuerwerker and Atara Marmor
- No. 15: Lebrun are reinstalled in the Musée Carnavalet.
- No. 17: bishop and theologian Bossuet
- No. 20: Prince Obolensky Arnaud Henry Salas-Perez
- No. 21: Cardinal Richelieu from 1615 to 1627
- No. 23: post-impressionist painter Georges Dufrénoy
- No. 28 (Pavillon de la Reine): Chabot-Rohan family
See also
Notes
- ^ . Other architects, like Louis Métezeau, were responsible for the constructions erected behind these regular façades
- ISBN 9780143112686.
References
- ISBN 0-262-52197-0
- DeJean, Joan. "'Light of the city of light' The Place des Vosges" in her How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City NY:Bloomsbury, 2014. ISBN 978-1-60819-591-6. chapter 2, pp. 45–61.
External links
- Place des Vosges, Discovering the Historic Place des Vosges: Parisian Charm and Cultural Significance
- "Paris Pages; Monuments; Place des Vosges". Archived from the original on 10 March 2010.
- Satellite image from Google Maps
- [1] Place des Vosges audio tour
- dans le parc