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'{{Infobox street | name = Place des Vosges | image = Paris, Place des Vosges - OpenStreetMap.svg | image_size = 230px | image_alt = | caption = Map of the Place des Vosges | map_type = France Paris | map_size = 265 | coordinates = {{coord|48|51|20|N|2|21|56|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | arrondissement = [[3rd arrondissement of Paris|3rd]], [[4th arrondissement of Paris|4th]] | quarter = Archives. Arsenal. | terminus_a = [[rue de Birague, 11 bis, Paris|rue de Birague, 11 bis]] | terminus_b = [[rue de Béarn, 1, Paris|rue de Béarn, 1]] |length = {{convert|140|m|abbr=on}} |width = {{convert|140|m|abbr=on}} | completion_date = July 1605 | inauguration_label = Denomination | inauguration_date = }} The '''Place des Vosges''' ({{IPA-fr|plas de voʒ}}), originally Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in [[Paris]], [[France]]. It is located in the ''[[le Marais|Marais]]'' district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the [[3rd arrondissement of Paris|3rd]] and [[4th arrondissement of Paris|4th]] [[Arrondissements of Paris|arrondissements]] of Paris. It was a fashionable and expensive square to live in during the 17th and 18th centuries, and one of the central reasons of the fashionable nature of [[Le Marais]] for the Parisian nobility. == History == Originally known as the ''Place Royale'', the Place des [[Vosges]] was built by [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]] from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m × 140 m), it embodied the first European 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, [[Henry II of France|Henri II]] was wounded and died. [[Catherine de' Medici]] had the Gothic complex demolished, and she moved to the [[Louvre Palace]]. [[File:France 5 Francs 1959. VF- Banknote, Reverse.jpg|left|thumb|The reverse of a French 5 Francs 1959 Banknote of the French national bank [[Banque de France]] with a portrait of [[Victor Hugo]] in the front left of a picture of the Place des Vosges]] The Place des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand ''[[carrousel]]'' to celebrate the engagement of [[Louis XIII of France|Louis XIII]] and [[Anne of Austria]], is a prototype of 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 [[Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau]],<ref>Other architects, like [[Louis Métezeau]], were responsible for the constructions erected behind these regular façades.</ref> of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted [[Arcade (architecture)|arcade]]s 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 has ever lived in the aristocratic square, except for [[Anne of Austria]] in the Pavilion de la Reine, for a short while. The Place des Vosges initiated subsequent developments of Paris that created a suitable urban background for the French aristocracy and nobility. The square was often the place for the nobility to chat, and served as a meeting place for them. This was so until the [[French Revolution|Revolution]]. Before the square was completed, Henri IV ordered the [[Île de la Cité#The Place Dauphine|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 [[Louis XIII of France|Louis XIII]] erected in the center (there were no garden plots until 1680). In the late 18th century, while most of the nobility moved to the [[Faubourg Saint-Germain]] district, the square managed to keep some of its aristocratic owners until the [[French Revolution|Revolution]]. It was renamed in 1799 when the ''[[département in France|département]]'' of the [[Vosges (department)|Vosges]] became the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the [[French Revolution|Revolutionary army]]. The [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|Restoration]] returned the old royal name, but the short-lived [[French Second Republic|Second Republic]] restored the revolutionary one in 1870. Today the square is planted with a [[bosquet]] of mature [[Tilia|linden]]s set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens. [[File:Place De Vosges at Night.png|thumb|View of No.6 At Night]] '''Residents of the Place des Vosges''' * No. 1bis [[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné|Madame de Sevigné]] was born here * [[Maison de Victor Hugo|No. 6, "Maison de Victor Hugo"]] [[Victor Hugo]] 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 [[Paris|City of Paris]] * No. 7 [[Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully|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 occupied from 1639-1648 by the courtesan [[Marion Delorme]] * No. 14 (Hôtel de la Rivière). Its ceilings painted by [[Charles Lebrun|Lebrun]] are reinstalled in the [[Musée Carnavalet]]. Rabbi [[David Feuerwerker]], [[Antoinette Feuerwerker]] and [[Atara Marmor]] * No. 15 [[Marguerite Louise d'Orléans]], wife of [[Cosimo III de' Medici]] [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]. * No. 17 former residence of [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet|Bossuet]] * No. 21 [[Cardinal Richelieu]] from 1615 to 1627 * No. 23 post-impressionist painter [[Georges Dufrénoy]] * No. 28 (Pavillon de la Reine) Family of Chabot-Rohan {{wide image|Vosges-panoramica.jpg|600px|Panoramic View}} {{gallery|mode=packed|height=150 |Image:Place des Vosges01.jpg|General overview |Image:Paris_PlaceDesVosges_Ouest.JPG|West part |Image:Place des Vosges, général.jpg|North-East part |Image:Paris_PlaceDesVosges_NordNordEst.JPG|North-East part |Image:Place Vosges Paris Mai 2006 011.jpg|East part |Image:Place des Vosges, arcades.jpg|Arcades, East part |Image:paris-place-des-vosges.jpg|Sunset, East part |Image:Paris_PlaceDesVosges_Sud_PavillonDuRoi.JPG|Pavillon du Roi, South |Image:PlaceVosges_PavillonReine.JPG|Pavillon de la Reine, North |Image:Place Vosges Paris Mai 2006 010.jpg|Arcades |Image:Place des Vosges.jpg|One of Cortot's four fountains, 1825 |Image:Place des Vosges, fontaine.jpg|Fountain }} == See also == * [[Marywil]] == Notes == {{Reflist}} == References == * [[Hilary Ballon]], ''The Paris of Henry IV: Architecture and Urbanism,'' 1994 {{ISBN|0-262-52197-0}} == External links == {{Commons category|Place des Vosges (Paris)|Place des Vosges}} * [http://www.parismarais.com/place-des-vosges.htm The official guide, partner of the Paris Tourist Office] * {{cite web|url=http://www.paris.org/Monuments/Vosges/|title=Paris Pages; Monuments; Place des Vosges|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310192202/http://www.paris.org/Monuments/Vosges|archivedate=10 March 2010}} * [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=paris,+france&ll=48.855708,2.365569&spn=0.003004,0.010274&t=h&hl=en Satellite image from Google Maps] * http://www.articleweb55.com/details/Top-10-Safety-Tips-For-Solo-Travellers/105239{{date=Feb 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Safety Tips For Solo Travelers * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707104614/http://photo.alexandrebrisebois.com/by-photo/paris-france/a-peaceful-moment dans le parc] {{Visitor attractions in Paris}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Place Des Vosges}} [[Category:Historic public gardens]] [[Category:Squares in Paris|Vosges, Place des]] [[Category:Le Marais]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in the 4th arrondissement of Paris]] [[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1612]] [[Category:1612 establishments in France]] [[Category:Garden squares]]'