Communards pose with the statue from the toppled Vendôme column, 1871

Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is the starting point of the Rue de la Paix. Its regular architecture by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and pedimented screens canted across the corners give the rectangular Place Vendôme the aspect of an octagon. Description Destruction of the Vendôme Colonne during the Paris Commune Source http://www. ... Description Destruction of the Vendôme Colonne during the Paris Commune Source http://www. ... The Communards were also an 80s Britpop group Communard is an archaic term that is a synonym of communist. With respect to the history of France, the Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived Paris Commune formed in the disturbed period immediately after the Franco-Prussian War. ... (Redirected from 1er arrondissement, Paris) The 1er arrondissement is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. ... , The Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in Paris, is an international symbol of the city. ... Up to 1871 the Tuileries Palace was a palace in Paris, France, on the right bank of the River Seine. ... Église de la Madeleine, Paris Léglise de la Madeleine, or Léglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (or simply La Madeleine), is a church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that was designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleons army. ... The Rue de la Paix, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, though depending somewhat on historic prestige, remains one of the worlds most fashionable shopping streets, known above all for its jewellers, headed by the shop opened by Cartier SA in 1898 at 13, rue de la Paix. ... Jules Hardouin-Mansart, marble bust by Jean-Louis Lemoyne: a full-dress Baroque portrait bust demonstrates that the Kings architect is no mere craftsman Jules Hardouin-Mansart (Paris, April 16, 1646 – Marly, France, May 11, 1708) was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex...

After some false starts, the Place was laid out in 1702 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque and called Place des Conquêtes, to be renamed Place Louis le Grand, when the conquests proved temporary; an equestrian statue of the king was set up in its center. Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715), reigned as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death at 77 years old. ...

Napoleon erected the present column, modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its spiralling veneers of bas-relief bronze plates (by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret) were made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda. (The usual figure given is hugely exaggerated: 133 cannon were actually captured at Austerlitz.) After the Bourbon restoration the statue of the Emperor was pulled from the top of the column and refinished as a statue of Henri IV, which can be inspected on the Pont Neuf. A replacement statue of Napoleon, however, was erected by Louis-Philippe, and a better, more augustly classicizing one by Louis-Napoleon. Trajans Column. ... Combatants First French Empire Russia, Austrian Empire Commanders Napoleon I Alexander I Strength 67,000 73,000 Casualties 1,305 dead, 6,940 wounded, 573 captured (about 9,000 total), and 1 standard lost 15,000 dead or wounded, 12,000 captured (about 27,000 total); 180 guns and 50... Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. ... By Frans Pourbus the younger. ... The Île de la Cité seen from the West, with the Pont Neuf, in front, spanning across the river. ...

La Colonne Vendôme

During the Paris Commune in 1871, the painter Gustave Courbet proposed the column to be disassembled and re-erected in the Hôtel des Invalides. Courbet argue that since: Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (588x1773, 148 KB) Subject : Colonne Vendôme, Place Vendôme, Paris Author : User:Popolon License : GFDL Commentaire : Pris depuis le jardin des Tuileries File links The following pages link to this file: Place Vendôme Metadata This file contains additional information... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (588x1773, 148 KB) Subject : Colonne Vendôme, Place Vendôme, Paris Author : User:Popolon License : GFDL Commentaire : Pris depuis le jardin des Tuileries File links The following pages link to this file: Place Vendôme Metadata This file contains additional information... Le Père Duchesne face to the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !… (Here! savage rascal, we will put you down just as your crook of a nephew!… The... Gustave Courbet (portrait by Nadar) Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter. ... The church at the Invalides, with its dome Les Invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement, now containing museums and monuments, all relating to Frances military history, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the buildings...

"Attendu que la colonne Vendôme est un monument dénué de toute valeur artistique, tendant à perpétuer par son expression les idées de guerre et de conquête qui étaient dans la dynastie impériale, mais que réprouve le sentiment d’une nation républicaine, [le citoyen Courbet] émet le vœu que le gouvernement de la Défense nationale veuille bien l’autoriser à déboulonner cette colonne." [1]

("in asmuch as the Vendôme column is a monument devoid of all artistic value, tending to perpetuate by its expression the ideas of war and conquest of the past imperial dynasty, which are reproved by a republican nation's sentiment, citizen Courbet expresses the wish that the National Defense government will authorise him to disassemble this column.")

Le Père Duchesne face to the statue of Napoleon on top of the Vendome column, before toppling him: "Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !..."

This project wasn't followed, but, on April 12, 1871, the dismantling of the imperial symbol was voted, and the column taken down on May 8, with no intentions of rebuilding it. The bronze plates were preserved. After the assault on the Paris Commune by Adolphe Thiers, the decision was taken to rebuild the column with its statue of Napoleon. On his own previous proposition, Gustave Courbet was condemned to pay part of the expenses, which ruined him. Image File history File links PereDuchesneIllustre1_1_0_-_Vendome_column. ... Image File history File links PereDuchesneIllustre1_1_0_-_Vendome_column. ... Le Père Duchesne was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution edited by Jacques Hébert. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... Le Père Duchesne face to the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !… (Here! savage rascal, we will put you down just as your crook of a nephew!… The... Louis Adolphe Thiers (April 16, 1797–September 3, 1877) was a French statesman and historian. ...

The site of the square was formerly the hôtel of César, duc de Vendôme, the illegitimate son of Henri IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées. Mansart bought the building and its gardens, with an idea of converting it into building lots as a profitable speculation. The plan didn't materialize, and Louis XIV's minister of finance, Louvois, purchased the piece of ground, with the object of building a square, modelled on the successful Place des Vosges of the previous century. Louvois came into financial difficulties and nothing came of his project, either. After his death the king purchased the plot and commissioned Mansart to design a housefront that the buyers of plots round the Place would agree to adhere to. When the state finances ran low, the financier John Law took on the project, built himself a residence behind one of the facades, and the square was complete by 1720, just as his paper-money Mississippi bubble burst. Law suffered a major blow when he was forced to pay back taxes amounting to some tens of millions of dollars. With no way to pay such an amount he was forced to sell the property he owned on the square. The buyers were the exiled members of the de Condé family that claimed the right to the title Count of Vendôme. Between 1720 and and 1797 they acquired much of the square, including the deeds to the site on which the Hôtel Ritz Paris now stands. Their intention to restore a family palace on the site is dependent on the outcome of an imminent court decision. Facade of the abbey-church Castle ruins Vendôme is a commune of north-central France. ... Henry IV (French: Henri IV; December 13, 1553–May 14, 1610), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until his death. ... Gabrielle dEstrée, duchesse de Beaufort et Verneuil, marquise de Monceaux (1571-1599) was a French mistress of King Henry IV of France, born at Château de la Bourdaisière in Montlouis-sur-Loire, in the Indre-et-Loire department of France. ... François Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (January 18, 1641 - July 16, 1691), was the French war minister under Louis XIV. He was born in Paris to Michel le Tellier. ... Fountain in the Place des Vosges The Place des Vosges is Paris oldest (and some say most beautiful) square. ... Jean Law John Law (1671 April 21 - 1729 March 21) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself, and that national wealth depended on trade. ... In August 1717 Scottish businessman John Law acquired a controlling interest in the then derelict Mississippi Company and renamed it the Compagnie d’Occident (or Compagnie du Mississippi). ... // Events January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Hotel Ritz, Paris The Hôtel Ritz at 15 Place Vendôme in Paris, France. ...

At the centers of the square's long sides, Mansart's range of Corinthian pilasters breaks forward under a pediment, to create palace-like fronts. The arcading of the formally rusticated ground floors does not provide an arcaded passageway as at Place des Vosges. The architectural linking of the windows from one floor to the next, and the increasing arch of their windowheads, provide an upward spring to the horizontals formed by ranks of windows. Originally the Place was accessible by a single street and preserved an aristocratic quiet, except when the annual fair was held there. Then Napoleon opened the Rue de la Paix, and the 20th century filled the Place Vendôme with traffic. The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ... The Rue de la Paix, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, though depending somewhat on historic prestige, remains one of the worlds most fashionable shopping streets, known above all for its jewellers, headed by the shop opened by Cartier SA in 1898 at 13, rue de la Paix. ...

The Place Vendome has been famous for its fashionable and deluxe hotels: The Hôtel Ritz Paris, which is the Ritz, and the Bristol, which Edward VII preferred, now called the Vendôme. Many famous dress designers have had their salons in the square. Hotel Ritz, Paris The Hôtel Ritz at 15 Place Vendôme in Paris, France. ... Edward VII (Albert Edward) (9 November 1841–6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ...

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