The Pavillon de la Reine at Place des Vosges

The Place des Vosges is the oldest square in Paris. It is located in le Marais, and is part of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris. Its coordinates are 48°51′20″N, 2°21′56″ECoordinates: 48°51′20″N, 2°21′56″E. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 868 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 868 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... The Place des Vosges is Paris oldest square still with its original buildings. ... Categories: France geography stubs | Arrondissements of Paris ... The 4e arrondissement is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. ... The city of Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements municipaux (“municipal boroughs,” approximately, in English), more simply referred to as arrondissements (pronounced ). These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements, which subdivide the 100 French départements. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m x 140 m), it was the first program of royal city planning. 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 Medicis had the Gothic pile demolished, and she removed to the Louvre. Henry IV of France, also Henry III of Navarre (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. ... 1605 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... Henry II (French: Henri II) (March 31, 1519 – July 10, 1559), a member of the Valois Dynasty, was King of France from March 31, 1547, until his death. ...

Arcades at Place des Vosges

The Place des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, is the prototype of all the residential squares of European cities that were to come. What was new about the Place Royale in 1612 was that the housefronts were all built to the same design, probably by Baptiste du Cerceau,^[1] of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. The steeply-pitched blue slate roofs are pierced with discreet small-paned dormers above the pedimented dormers that stand upon the cornices. Only the north range was built with the vaulted ceilings that the "galleries" were meant to have. Two pavilions that rise higher than the unified roofline of the square center the north and south faces and offer access to the square through triple arches. Though they are designated the Pavilion of the King and of the Queen, no royal personage has ever lived in the aristocratic square. The Place des Vosges initiated subsequent developments of Paris that created a suitable urban background for the French aristocracy. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1920 × 2560 pixel, file size: 882 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1920 × 2560 pixel, file size: 882 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Carrousel is a booklet published in 1987 containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for Karussel, a Russian cabaret. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Louis XIII by Philippe de Champaigne Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. ... Androuet du Cerceau was a family of French architects and designers active in the 16th and early 17th century. ...

Before the square was completed Henri 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, the Pont Neuf, and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares. Notre Dame de Paris on ÃŽle de la Cité from upstream (the east) The ÃŽle de la Cité, one of two islands in the Seine (the other being ÃŽle Saint-Louis), in the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The ÃŽle de la Cité seen from the West, with the Pont Neuf, in front, spanning the river. ...

One of Cortot's four fountains, 1825.

Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center (there were no garden plots until 1680). The original was melted down in the Revolution; the present version, begun in 1818 by Louis Dupaty and completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot, replaced it in 1825. The square was renamed in 1799 when the département of the Vosges became the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the Revolutionary army. The Restoration returned the old royal name, but the short-lived Second Republic restored the revolutionary one in 1848. Place des Vosges, Paris Taken on Apr 18, 2004 by Nathan File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Place des Vosges, Paris Taken on Apr 18, 2004 by Nathan File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Louis Charles Marie Henri Mercier Dupaty (Bordeaux 1771 — Paris 1825) was a French sculptor. ... Jean-Pierre Cortot (1787 – 1843, both Paris) was a French sculptor. ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... Vosges is a French department, named after the Vosges mountain range. ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

East side of the Place des Vosges

Today the square is planted with a bosquet of mature lindens set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 857 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 857 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (1810-1861) was a Marshal of France. ... Linden is one of three English names for a genus of trees, Tilia, also known as lime and basswood. ...

Residents of Place des Vosges

• No. 1bis Mme de Sevigné was born here
• No. 6 Victor Hugo from 1832 - 1848, in what was then the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée, now a Ville de Paris-managed museum devoted to his memory
• No. 7 Sully, Henri IV's great minister
• No. 8 poet Théophile Gautier and writer Alphonse Daudet
• No. 9 (Hôtel de Chaulnes) the Academy of Architecture
• No. 11 occupied from 1639-1648 by the courtesan Marion Delorme
• No. 14 (Hôtel de la Rivière). Its ceilings painted by Lebrun are reinstalled in the Musée Carnavalet
• No. 17 former residence of Bossuet
• No. 21 Cardinal Richelieu from 1615 - 1627

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (February 5, 1626 – April 17, 1696), French letter-writer, was born at Paris. ... Victor-Marie Hugo (pronounced in French) (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully (December 13, 1560 – December 22, 1641) was the doughty soldier, French minister, staunch Protestant and faithful right-hand man who enabled Henry IV of France to accomplish so much. ... Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. ... Alphonse Daudet (May 13, 1840 - December 17, 1897) was a French novelist. ... Marion Delorme (3 October 1613–2 July 1650) was a French courtesan known for her relationships with the important men of her time. ... Charles Le Brun Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 _ February 22, 1690) was a French painter and art theorist, one of the dominant artists in France. ... The Musée Carnavalet or Musée de lHistoire de Paris focuses on the history of the city of Paris, France. ... Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louvre Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (September 27, 1627 - April 12, 1704) was a French bishop, theologian, and renowned pulpit orator and court preacher. ... For other uses, see Richelieu (disambiguation). ...

Notes

Louis Métezeau was born in 1560 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir and died in 1615 in Paris, Île de France. ...

References

• Hilary Ballon, The Paris of Henry IV: Architecture and Urbanism, 1994 ISBN 0-262-52197-0

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