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Imperial Suite
The Imperial Suite (Suite Impériale) is the finest suite of the hotel and is listed as a National Monument of France in its own right.[45] The Imperial Suite is located on the first floor and consists of two bedrooms, a grand salon, and a dining room. The suite features 6-metre-high (20 ft) ceilings,[46] great chandeliers and windows overlooking the Place Vendôme, a massive long gold framed Baroque mirror between the windows, red and gold upholstery and a four-poster bed said to be identical to that in Marie Antoinette's bedroom in the Palace of Versailles.[45] The other bedroom is in the style of Louis XVI, with a baldachin bed and columns.[46] The suite is lavishly decorated in French art, bas-reliefs and 18th-century paneling which is protected under the suite's historic monument status. The bathroom is a former boudoir overlooking the Vendôme garden, with 18th-century paneling and a Jacuzzi bath and steam-bath shower, and has its own plasma television and cosmetics fridge.[46] As well as facilities such as a DVD player, high-speed internet, and fax, the suite features a Porsche Design kitchenette with Chroma knives[47] near the salon and has its own small personal wine cellar filled with a variety of French wines.[46] Over the years the suite has hosted some of the world's most prestigious guests from the Shah of Iran to George H. W. Bush. The suite was Hermann Göring's choice of residence during the Second World War and it was where Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al-Fayed ate their last meal. The World Travel Awards of 2007 selected the Imperial Suite as "Europe's Leading Suite".[48]
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The hotel at night, looking west
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| Louvre Castle | |
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| Part of Louvre Palace | |
| Paris, France | |
 The castle in the 15th century as illustrated in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry | |
  Louvre Castle | |
| Coordinates | |
| Type | Medieval castle |
| Site information | |
| Condition | destroyed |
| Site history | |
| Built | From 1190 |
| Built by | French kings from Philip II of France |
| Demolished | 1528–1660 |
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The Louvre Castle (French: Château fort du Louvre), also known as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval),[1] was a castle (French: château fort) built by King Philip II of France on the right bank of the Seine, to reinforce the city wall he had built around Paris. It was demolished in stages between 1528 and 1660 to make way for the expanded Louvre Palace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratoire_du_Louvre
rue des Moulins | |
_Au_Salon_de_la_rue_des_Moulins_-_Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec_1894_MTL.inv180(_small).jpg) Au Salon de la rue des Moulins - Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894 | |
 La Fleur blanche Location in Paris | |
| Address | 6 rue des Moulins, 1st Arrondissement |
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| Location | Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48.8666°N 2.3352°E |
| Opened | 1860 |
| Closed | 1946 |
La Fleur blanche was a famous maison close (brothel) in the city of Paris, located at 6 rue des Moulins in the 1st Arrondissement. The property was also known as rue des Moulins and was famous for its torture room.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fleur_blanche
| The Conciergie | |
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 The Conciergerie | |
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| General information | |
| Type | palace, courthouse, prison |
| Architectural style | Gothic and Gothic revival |
| Location | Île de la Cité |
| Town or city | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48.8564°N 2.3456°E |
The Conciergerie (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sjɛʁʒəʁi]) (English: Lodge) is a former courthouse and prison in Paris, France, located on the west of the Île de la Cité, below the Palais de Justice. It was originally part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, which also included the Sainte-Chapelle. Two large medieval halls remain from the royal palace. During the French Revolution, 2,780 prisoners, including Marie-Antoinette, were imprisoned, tried and sentenced at the Conciergerie, then sent to different sites to be executed by the guillotine. It is now a national monument and museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conciergerie
The Place du Carrousel (French pronunciation: [plas dy kaʁuzɛl]) is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, located at the open end of the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a space occupied, prior to 1883, by the Tuileries Palace. Sitting directly between the museum and the Tuileries Garden, the Place du Carrousel delineates the eastern end of the gardens just as the Place de la Concorde defines its western end.
The name "carrousel" refers to a type of military dressage, an equine demonstration now commonly called military drill. The Place du Carrousel was named in 1662, when it was used for such a display by Louis XIV.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_du_Carrousel
A construction in the Place du Carrousel at the time, in 1745, of the marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France. Note the Tuileries Palace in the background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_du_Carrousel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrousel_du_Louvre
| Halle aux blés | |
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 Hall in 1838, Medici column to its right | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Wheats or Grains exchange |
| Address | 2, rue de Viarmes |
| Town or city | Paris (1st arrondissement) |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48.862731°N 2.342780°E |
| Construction started | 1763 |
| Opened | 1767 |
| Closed | 1873 |
| Demolished | 1887 |
The Halle aux blés (Wheats Exchange or Grains Exchange) was a circular building in central Paris used by grain traders built in 1763–67, with an open-air interior court that was capped by a wooden dome in 1783, then by an iron dome in 1811. In a major reconstruction in 1888–89 much of the structure was replaced and the building became the Bourse de commerce. The structure influenced the design of public buildings in Britain and the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_aux_bl%C3%A9s_(Paris)
| Bourse de commerce | |
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 Bourse de commerce and the Médici column | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Hall |
| Classification | Historical monument |
| Address | 2, rue de Viarmes |
| Town or city | Paris (1st arrondissement) |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48.862731°N 2.342780°E |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | François-Joseph Bélanger |
| Engineer | François Brunet |
| Website | |
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The Bourse de commerce (Commodities Exchange) is a building in Paris, originally used as a place to negotiate the trade of grain and other commodities, and used to provide services to businesses by the Paris Chamber of Commerce during the latter part of the 20th century. It has its origins in a circular wheat exchange built in 1763–67, with an open-air interior court that was later capped by a wooden dome replaced in 1811 with a copper one (supported by an iron skeletal structure). In a major reconstruction in 1888–89 much of the structure was replaced, although the layout remained the same and the dome was retained albeit adding glass and a mounted canvas.
Since 2021, the building has been the Parisian exhibition site of the Pinault Collection. The dome of the building is listed as a historical monument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourse_de_commerce_(Paris)
View of the front entrance of the Hôtel de Toulouse
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| Hôtel de Toulouse | |
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 Hôtel de Toulouse, headquarters of the Banque de France | |
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| Location | Paris, France |
The Hôtel de Toulouse, former Hôtel de La Vrillière is located at 1 rue de La Vrillière, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It was built between 1635 and 1640 by François Mansart, for Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière.[1]
Originally, the mansion had a large garden with a formal parterre to the southwest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_de_Toulouse
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 Principal theatre of the Comédie-Française, the Salle Richelieu, seen from the intersection of the Rue de Richelieu with the Avenue de l'Opéra | |
| Founded | 1680 |
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| Founder | Louis XIV |
| Purpose | Theatre company |
| Headquarters | 2 Rue de Richelieu, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48.8635°N 2.3362°E |
| Website | www.comedie-francaise.fr |
The Comédie-Française (French: [kɔmedi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) or Théâtre-Français (French: [teɑtʁ(ə) fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state theatre in France to have its own permanent troupe of actors. The company's primary venue is the Salle Richelieu, which is a part of the Palais-Royal complex and located at 2, Rue de Richelieu on Place André-Malraux in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
The theatre has also been known as the Théâtre de la République and popularly as "La Maison de Molière" (The House of Molière). It acquired the latter name from the troupe of the best-known playwright associated with the Comédie-Française, Molière. He was considered the patron of French actors. He died seven years before his troupe became known as the Comédie-Française, but the company continued to be known as "La Maison de Molière" even after the official change of name.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com%C3%A9die-Fran%C3%A7aise
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The Fontaine des Innocents is a monumental public fountain located on the place Joachim-du-Bellay in the Les Halles district in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally called the Fountain of the Nymphs, it was constructed between 1547 and 1550 by architect Pierre Lescot and sculptor Jean Goujon in the new style of the French Renaissance. It is the oldest monumental fountain in Paris.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontaine_des_Innocents
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The Palais-Cardinal, circa 1641
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais-Royal
The Musée de la mode et du textile (Museum of Fashion and Textiles) was a museum located in the Louvre at, 107, rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.[1] Works from the former museum are regularly displayed in temporary exhibitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_la_mode_et_du_textile
The Musée des Arts décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of the decorative arts. Located at 107 Rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, the museum occupies the most north-western wing of the Louvre Palace, known as the Pavillon de Marsan. With over one million objects in its collection, the Musée des Arts décoratifs is the largest museum of decorative arts in continental Europe.
The Musée des Arts décoratifs at the Louvre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Arts_d%C3%A9coratifs,_Paris
Bath/shower and peach-coloured towel
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The hotel was founded in 1898 by the Swiss hotelier César Ritz in collaboration with the French chef Auguste Escoffier. The hotel was constructed behind the façade of an eighteenth-century townhouse. It was among the first hotels in Europe to provide an en suite bathroom, electricity, and a telephone for each room. It quickly established a reputation for luxury and attracted a clientele that included royalty, politicians, writers, film stars, and singers. Several of its suites are named in honour of famous guests of the hotel including Coco Chanel, and the cocktail lounge Bar Hemingway pays tribute to writer Ernest Hemingway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_Ritz_Paris
Hôtel Ritz Paris, looking north
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| Location | Paris, France |
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| Type | Hôtel particulier |
| Monument historique: PA00085842 | |
The hôtel de Villeroy, also the hôtel de Villeroy Bourbon or hôtel de la Poste, is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, at 34 rue des Bourdonnais, 9 rue des Déchargeurs, 17 rue des Halles (former rue de la Limace) in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It is a designated monument historique.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_de_Villeroy_(Paris,_1st_arrondissement)
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The Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, a former Parisian town house of the royal family of Bourbon, was located on the right bank of the Seine on the rue d'Autriche,[1] between the Louvre to the west and the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois to the east. It was constructed in the 14th century, not long after the Capetian Kings of France enlarged the fortress of the Louvre in order to use it as a royal residence. On two 1550 maps it is shown simply as the Hôtel de Bourbon, but by 1652, as the Petit-Bourbon on the map of Gomboust [fr] (see below).[2] The Bourbons took control of France in 1589, at which time they also acquired the Louvre.
The Great Hall, the Grande Salle du Petit-Bourbon, was larger than any room in the Louvre, and served as the first theatre of the troupe of Molière upon their arrival in Paris in 1658; but by 1660 Molière and his actors were evicted, and the Petit-Bourbon was pulled down to make space for the construction of the Louvre Colonnade.
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Estates General of 1614 in the Salle du Petit-Bourbon
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The Ballet Comique de la Reine at the Petit-Bourbon, 1581
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The Petit-Bourbon on old maps of Paris
ca. 1550 (Truschet & Hoyau)
ca. 1550 (Saint Victor)
1609 (Quesnel)
1615 (Mérian)
1652 (Gomboust)
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| Palais de Justice | |
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_June_2010.jpg) Palais de Justice; gates of the cour d'honneur | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Paris, France |
The Palais de Justice (French pronunciation: [palɛ də ʒystis]; '"Palace of Justice"), is a judicial center and courthouse in Paris, located on the Île de la Cité. It contains the Court of Appeal of Paris, the busiest appellate court in France, and France's highest court for ordinary cases, the Court of Cassation. It formerly housed the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris which was relocated in 2018 to a new high-rise building in Paris's Batignolles neighborhood. The Palais de Justice occupies a large part of the medieval Palais de la Cité, the former royal palace of the Kings of France, which also includes Sainte Chapelle, the royal chapel, and the Conciergerie, a notorious former prison, which operated from 1380 to 1914.[1] It is located in close proximity to the Tribunal of Commerce, the Prefecture of Police of Paris, and the offices of the Paris Bar Association.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_Justice,_Paris
The Quai François Mitterrand is a quay by the River Seine in Paris, France, along the stretch where the Palais du Louvre is situated. Formerly Quai du Louvre, it was renamed Quai François Mitterrand after the former French president on October 26, 2003.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand
| Hôtel de Soissons | |
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 1650 engraving by Israël Silvestre of the Hôtel de la Reine in Paris.
The central and right-hand sections are those built during Catherine's
lifetime. The Colonne de l'Horoscope can be seen in the background, to
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| General information | |
| Type | Hôtel particulier |
| Classification | Demolished |
| Address | 2, rue de Viarmes |
| Town or city | Paris (1st arrondissement) |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48.862731°N 2.342780°E |
| Construction started | 1574 |
| Completed | 1584 |
| Demolished | 1748 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Jean Bullant |
The Hôtel de Soissons was a hôtel particulier (grand house) built in Paris, France, between 1574 and 1584 for Catherine de' Medici (1519–89) by the architect Jean Bullant (1515–78). It replaced a series of earlier buildings on the same site. After Catherine's death the hotel was enlarged and embellished. The last owner, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, installed the Paris Bourse in the gardens, He was forced to sell it in 1740 to pay his debts. It was demolished in 1748 and the materials sold. A corn exchange was built on the site, later replaced by the present Bourse de commerce. A column, thought to have been used for astrological observations, is all that remains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_de_Soissons
The Théâtre des Tuileries was a theatre in the former Tuileries Palace in Paris. It was also known as the Salle des Machines, because of its elaborate stage machinery, designed by the Italian theatre architects Gaspare Vigarani and his two sons, Carlo and Lodovico.[1] Constructed in 1659–1661, it was originally intended for spectacular productions mounted by the court of the young Louis XIV, but in 1763 the theatre was greatly reduced in size and used in turn by the Paris Opera (up to 1770), the Comédie-Française (from 1770 to 1782), and the Théâtre de Monsieur (from January to December 1789). In 1808 Napoleon had a new theatre/ballroom built to the designs of the architects Percier and Fontaine. The Tuileries Palace and the theatre were destroyed by fire on 24 May 1871, during the Paris Commune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_des_Tuileries
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| Coordinates | 48.8662°N 2.33764°E |
| Public transit |    Pyramides |
| Capacity | 750 |
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| Opened | 23 October 1784 |
| Rebuilt | 1880 |
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The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ dy palɛ ʁwajal]) is a 750-seat Parisian theatre at 38 rue de Montpensier, located at the northwest corner of the Palais-Royal in the Galerie de Montpensier at its intersection with the Galerie de Beaujolais.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Palais-Royal
The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (or Grande Salle du Palais-Royal) on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame. The theatre was used by the troupe of Molière from 1660 to 1673 and as an opera house by the Académie Royale de Musique from 1673 to 1763, when it was destroyed by fire.[1] It was rebuilt and reopened in 1770, but again was destroyed by fire in 1781 and not rebuilt.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Palais-Royal_(rue_Saint-Honor%C3%A9)
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| Tuileries Palace | |
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Palais des Tuileries | |
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| Type | Royal and Imperial residence |
| Architectural style | Built in the 16th century: Renaissance, Additions of the 17th and 18th centuries: Louis XIII Style and Baroque, Additions of the 19th century: Neo-Classicism, Neo-Baroque and Napoleon III Style |
| Construction started | 1564 |
| Completed | 1860s |
| Demolished | 30 September 1883 |
The Tuileries Palace (French: Palais des Tuileries, IPA: [palɛ de tɥilʁi]) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the River Seine, directly in front of the Louvre. It was the usual Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon III, until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871.
Built in 1564, it was gradually extended until it closed off the western end of the Louvre courtyard and displayed an immense façade of 266 metres. Since the destruction of the Tuileries, the Louvre courtyard has remained open and the site is now the location of the eastern end of the Tuileries Garden, forming an elevated terrace between the Place du Carrousel and the gardens proper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries_Palace
The Quai des Tuileries is a quay on the Right Bank of the River Seine in Paris, France, along the stretch close to where the Palais du Louvre and the Quai François Mitterrand is situated, in the 1st arrondissement.[1]
Quai des Tuileries runs between the Pont du Carrousel and the Pont de la Concorde that cross the River Seine to the Left Bank. It is close to the Avenue du General Lemonnier and the Place de la Concorde. Vehicles may travel in one direction only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_des_Tuileries
Palais de Justice, Conciergerie and Pont au Change around 1900
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_au_Change
Musée d'Orsay and Pont Royal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Royal
Pont Saint-Michel | |
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 Pont Saint-Michel with Notre-Dame de Paris in the background | |
| Coordinates | 48°51′15″N 02°20′41″E |
| Carries | rue Saint-Denis |
| Crosses | River Seine |
| Locale | Paris, France |
| Next upstream | Petit-Pont |
| Next downstream | Pont Neuf |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Arch bridge |
| Total length | 62 metres (203 ft) |
| Width | 30 metres (98 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | Vaudrey, de Lagalisserie, Audrand, Rosier |
| Opened | 1857 |
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Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge linking the Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the river Seine to the Île de la Cité. It was named after the nearby chapel of Saint-Michel. It is near Sainte Chapelle and the Palais de Justice. The present 62-metre-long bridge dates to 1857.
History
First constructed in 1378, it has been rebuilt several times, most recently in 1857.
The medieval bridge
The construction of a stone bridge was decided upon in 1378 by the Parlement de Paris after an accord with the chapter of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, the provost of Paris, and the city's merchants. A location downstream of Petit-Pont was chosen, on the line of Rue Saint-Denis, from the Grand-Pont on the right bank and of Rue de la Harpe on the left bank. This allowed for a direct route across Île de la Cité.
The provost, Hugues Aubriot, was charged with overseeing the project, which was funded by the king. Construction lasted from 1379 to 1387. Once complete, the Parisians named the bridge Pont-Neuf (New Bridge, but it should not be confused with the present-day Pont-Neuf), Petit-Pont-Neuf (Little New Bridge) or Pont Saint-Michel dit le Pont-Neuf (St. Michael's Bridge, known as the 'New' Bridge).
As was common in the Middle Ages, the bridge's sides were quickly filled with houses. During the 1407–1408 winter, one of the longest and most severe known in the Middle Ages, ice carried by the frozen Seine hit the bridge, causing it to collapse, together with its houses. Due to France's difficulties in the Hundred Years' War, the bridge was immediately rebuilt in wood. This material proved less resistant than the previous stone bridge and the Parlement of Paris decided in 1444 to allocate all money raised from fines to building a new stone bridge on the site.
The appearance of this second bridge is known from one miniature painting in the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, painted by Jean Fouquet. This shows a bridge resting on high wooden piers, as well as wattle-and-daub or wood-and- plaster houses with a single level roofline along the whole length of the bridge.
The Renaissance bridge
A replacement bridge was built at the same time the Pont Marie was under construction. Owned by the king, it was more substantial than the Pont Marie and never ran into the kind of structural troubles both the Pont Marie and the Pont Neuf encountered.[1]
The work started in 1617 and was completed in 1623, using foundations similar to the ones used in the Rialto Bridge and the Pont des Boucheries. These foundations used wooden piles topped by a wooden platform over which the specifications required lower stone courses of 5 feet (1.5 m) to 6 feet (1.8 m) long by 3 feet (0.91 m) to 4 feet (1.2 m) thick.[1]
Built with four spans in the form of circular arcs, the roadway sloped up to the center of the bridge with a grade of over 6%. The two larger spans were approximately 46 feet (14 m) long, while the two shorter spans, on either side, were approximately 33 feet (10 m) long. The widest of the old Paris bridges, it was designed to hold two rows of houses. An order was issued in 1786 to remove all houses from Paris bridges, but the ones on this bridge remained until 1808.[1]
The modern bridge
The present 62-metre-long bridge dates to 1857, requiring only seven months for construction, from the date the older bridge was closed to traffic,[1] and was designed on three 17.2m arches by Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Paul Vaudrey. It was the site of many of the killings of protesters by the police, in the Paris massacre of 1961, and a commemoration plaque on the bridge was unveiled by the mayor of Paris in 2001.
Location
The entrances to two underground stations are located next to the bridge in Place Saint-Michel. Saint-Michel is on line 4 of the Paris Métro, whilst Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame is on line B and line C of the Paris Réseau Express Régional (RER).[2]
Gallery
View from Petit-Pont
View from Petit-Pont
Bibliography
- (in French) P. Lorentz et D. Sandron, Atlas de Paris au Moyen Âge, Paris, 2006, Parigramme.
References
- "Saint-Michel Notre-Dame". Transilien. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
External links
- (in French) Mairie de Paris site
- (in French) Structurae
- Satellite view on Google Map
- Pont Saint-Michel at Structurae (1378–1387)
- Pont Saint-Michel at Structurae (1416)
- Pont Saint-Michel at Structurae (1549)
- Pont Saint-Michel at Structurae (1618–1624)
- Pont Saint-Michel at Structurae (current)
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Porte Saint-Honoré was a city gate in Paris. It was the main entry point into the city from the west, towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye (with porte Saint-Denis to the north towards Saint-Denis, porte Saint-Antoine to the east towards Vincennes, and porte Saint-Jacques to the south towards Orléans). There were three gates that bore the name, demolished rebuilt further and further along rue Saint-Honoré as the city expanded - they dated to the early 13th, late 14th and early 17th centuries.
Bibliography
- Jacques Hillairet, Connaissance du vieux Paris : rive droite, rive gauche, les îles & les villages, Paris, éditions Payot & Rivages, 1993 (1re éd. 1956), 3 t. en 1 vol. , 377-299-255 p. (ISBN 978-2-86930-648-6).
- Renaud Gagneux and Denis Prouvost, Sur les traces des enceintes de Paris : promenade au long des murs disparus, Paris, éditions Parigramme, 2004, 246 p. (ISBN 2-84096-322-1).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_Saint-Honor%C3%A9
The Place Vendôme (French pronunciation: [plas vɑ̃dom]), earlier known as Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, 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. The original Vendôme Column at the centre of the square was erected by Napoleon I to commemorate the Battle of Austerlitz; it was torn down on 16 May 1871, by decree of the Paris Commune, but subsequently re-erected and remains a prominent feature on the square today.
History
The Place Vendôme was begun in 1698 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque,[1] and called Place des Conquêtes, to be renamed Place Louis le Grand, when the conquests proved temporary. An over life-size equestrian statue of the king by François Girardon (1699) was donated by the city authorities and set up in its centre. It is believed to be the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece. It was destroyed in the French Revolution; however, there is a small version in the Louvre.[2] This led to the popular joke that while Henri IV dwelled among the people by the Pont Neuf, and Louis XIII among the aristocrats of the Place des Vosges, Louis XIV preferred the company of the tax farmers in the Place Vendôme; each reflecting the group they had favoured in life.[3]
The site of the square was formerly the hôtel of César de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, the illegitimate son of Henry IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées. Hardouin-Mansart bought the building and its gardens, with the idea of converting it into building lots as a profitable speculation. The plan did not 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 Hardouin-Mansart to design a house-front that the buyers of plots round the square 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 façades, 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 members of the exiled Condé branch of the House of Bourbon who later returned to the country to reclaim their land in the town of Vendôme itself. Between 1720 and 1797, they acquired much of the square, including a freehold to parts of the site on which the Hôtel Ritz Paris now stands and in which they still maintain apartments. Their intention to restore a family palace on the site was dependent on the possible intentions of the adjacent Justice Ministry to expand its premises.
The Foire Saint-Ovide settled in 1764 on the Place until 1771.
When France established diplomatic relations with the short-lived Republic of Texas, the Texan legation was housed at Hôtel Bataille de Francès in 1 Place Vendôme.[4]
- Two bird's-eye views of Place Louis-le-Grand in 1705
View to the north with the Couvent des Capucines in the background and Montmartre in the distance
View to the west with the domed Church of the Daughters of the Assumption visible on the south side of the Rue Saint-Honoré
The Vendôme Column
Creation
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The original column was started in 1806 at Napoleon's direction and completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its veneer of 425 spiralling bas-relief bronze plates was made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda (the usual figure given is hugely exaggerated: 180 cannon were actually captured at Austerlitz.[5]) These plates were designed by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and executed by a team of about 30 sculptors including Jean-Joseph Foucou, Louis-Simon Boizot, François Joseph Bosio, Lorenzo Bartolini, Claude Ramey, François Rude, Corbet, Clodion, Julie Charpentier, and Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel. A statue of Napoleon by Antoine-Denis Chaudet was placed on top of the column. Napoleon is depicted dressed in Roman attire, bare-headed, crowned with laurels, holding a sword in his right hand and a globe surmounted with a statue of Victory (as in Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker) in his left hand.[6]
In 1816, taking advantage of the Allied occupying force, a mob of men and horses had attached a cable to the neck of the statue of Napoleon atop the column, but it had refused to budge – one woman quipped: "If the Emperor is as solid on his throne as this statue is on its column, he's nowhere near descending the throne".[citation needed] After the Bourbon Restoration the statue, though not the column, was pulled down and melted down to provide the bronze for the recast equestrian statue of Henry IV on the Pont Neuf (as was bronze from sculptures on the Column of the Grande Armée at Boulogne-sur-Mer), though the statuette of Victory is still to be seen in the salon Napoléon of the Hôtel des Monnaies (which also contains a model of the column and a likeness of Napoleon's face copied from his death mask).[citation needed] A replacement statue of Napoléon in modern dress (a bicorn hat, boots and a redingote), however, was erected by Louis-Philippe, and a better, more augustly classicizing one by Louis-Napoléon (later Napoléon III).[7]
The Paris Commune and the End of the Vendôme Column
Regardless of the political assessment of Karl Marx's theory, one thing is certain: he predicted the collapse of the Vendome column long before it happened. This prediction was given by him in the political pamphlet Le 18 Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte of 1852. This pamphlet, sharply critical of the political figure of Napoleon III, ends with the words: "But if the Imperial mantle finally falls on the shoulders of Louis Bonaparte, the bronze statue of Napoleon will fall from the height of the Vendome column".[8]
During the events in the run-up to the founding of the Commune, the 22 of March 1871 saw disturbances outside the National Guard when demonstrators holding banners declaring them to be "Friends of Peace" were blocked from entering the Place Vendome by guardsmen who, after being fired on, opened fire on the crowd. At least 12 people were killed and many wounded.[9]
During the Paris Commune in 1871, the painter Gustave Courbet, president of the Federation of Artists and elected member of the Commune,[10] who had previously expressed his dismay that this monument to war was located on the Rue de la Paix, proposed that the column be disassembled and preserved at the Hôtel des Invalides. Courbet argued that:
In as much 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.[11]
His project as proposed was not adopted, though on 12 April 1871 legislation was passed authorizing the dismantling of the imperial symbol. When the column was taken down on 16 May its bronze plates were preserved. After employing a series of ropes and quarry workers, observers saw that the statue...
...fell over on the heap of sand prepared for it, with a mighty crash. There was no concussion on the ground, the column broke up almost before it reached its bed, and lay on the ground, a huge mass of ruin. An immense dust and smoke from the stones and crumpled clay rose up and an instant after a crowd of men, National Guards, Communards, and a sight-seeing Englishman flew upon it, and commenced to get bits of it as remembrance, but the excitement was so intense that people moved about as in a dream.[12]
Immediately following the destruction of the column and in repudiation of its perceived glorification of national chauvinism and bellicosity, the Place Vendôme was renamed Place Internationale in celebration of the Communards' promotion of international fraternity.[13]
After the Paris Commune
After the suppression of the Paris Commune by Adolphe Thiers, the decision was made to rebuild the column with the statue of Napoléon restored at its apex. For his role in the Commune, Courbet was condemned to pay the costs of rebuilding the monument, estimated at 323,000 francs, in yearly installments of 10,000 francs. Unable to pay, Courbet went into self-imposed exile in Switzerland, the French government seized and sold the artist's paintings for a minor amount, and Courbet died in exile in December 1877.[14][15] In 1874 meanwhile, the column was re-erected at the center of Place Vendôme with a copy of the original statue on top.[citation needed] An inner staircase leading to the top is no longer open to the public.[citation needed]
Features
At the centre of the square's long sides, Hardouin-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 square was accessible by a single street and preserved an aristocratic quiet, except when the annual fair was held there. Then Napoléon opened the Rue de la Paix, and the 19th century filled the place Vendôme with traffic. It was only after the opening in 1875 of the Palais Garnier on the other side of the Rue de la Paix that the centre of the Parisian fashionable life started gravitating around the Rue de la Paix and the place Vendôme.[16]
Hôtels particuliers
Hôtels particuliers on the Place Vendôme:
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In popular culture
The Place Vendôme has been renowned for its fashionable and deluxe hotels such as the Ritz. Many famous dress designers have had their salons in the square. The only two remaining are the shirtmaker Charvet, at number 28, whose store has been on the Place Vendôme since 1877,[17] and the couturier Chéruit, at number 21, reestablished in 2008.[18] Since 1718, the Ministry of Justice, also known as the "Chancellerie", is located at the Hotel de Bourvallais located at numbers 11 and 13. Right on the other side of the Place Vendôme, number 14 houses the Paris office of JP Morgan, the investment bank, and number 20 the office of Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity).
After his death in 1990, American artist Keith Haring was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled out on a hillside near Kutztown, except for one handful, that Yoko Ono brought to the Place Vendôme because she believed the spirit of Haring had told her to.
In the 1920s, American architect, Alonzo C. Webb worked making advertisements and designs in English for some of the fashionable houses along the Place Vendôme.
Place Vendôme was a 1998 movie by Nicole Garcia starring Catherine Deneuve.
Mark Twain made reference to the Vendôme Column in his speech Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism.
Panoramic view of Place Vendôme
Notable residents
- Claude Dupin, (1686–1769), the financier and contracted tax-collector (fermier-général), at 10, Place Vendôme.
- Augustin Blondel de Gagny (1695—1776).
- Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny, (1727–1781), the brother of Madame de Pompadour, at 8, Place Vendôme.
- Franz Mesmer, (1734–1815), the German physician and discoverer of animal magnetism, at 16, Place Vendôme.
- Anne Lister (1791-1840), the English landowner and diarist, stayed at 24 Place Vendôme, a guesthouse run by M. and Mme de Boyve in 1824-25.[19] This is where she met and carried on an affair with Maria Barlow.[20]
- Frédéric Chopin, (1810–1849), the Polish composer, at 12, Place Vendôme, where he died.
- Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (1837–1899), the former mistress of Napoleon III, lived in seclusion from the 1870s until the 1890s at 26, Place Vendôme, above Boucheron.
- Samuel Jean de Pozzi, (1846–1918), the surgeon and gynaecologist, at 10, Place Vendôme.
- Coco Chanel, (1883–1971), the fashion designer, at 15, Place Vendôme, (the Hôtel Ritz Paris).
- Prince Jefri Bolkiah, at 3-5, Place Vendôme.
Metro station
The Place Vendôme is:
| Located near the Métro stations: Opéra, Pyramides, Madeleine and Tuileries. |
It is served by lines 
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References
- Orr, Dannielle (2006). A sojourn in Paris 1824-25: sex and sociability in the manuscript writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840) (phd thesis). Murdoch University.
External links
- Place Vendôme and its history
- Comité Vendôme (in French)
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