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The Rue Royale (French pronunciation: [ʁy ʁwajal]) is a short street in Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place de la Madeleine (site of the Church of the Madeleine). The Rue Royale is in the city's 8th arrondissement. Rue Royale following Commune destruction. Photograph by Alphonse Liebert, 1871.
An earlier church of Saint-Marie-Madeleine was built in the 13th century on avenue Malesherbes, but was considered too small for the growing neighbourhood. Louis XV authorised the construction of a new, larger church, with a view along Rue Royale toward the new Place Louis XV, now Place de la Concorde. In 1763 the King laid the first stone for ...
Rue Royale, from the Place de la Madeleine to the place de la Concorde in the 8th arrondissement. Districts or neighborhoods. Quartier des Champs-Élysées;
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At the end of the Rue de la Concorde (given again its former name of Rue Royale on 27 April 1814), he took the foundations of an unfinished church, the Église de la Madeleine, which had been started in 1763, and transformed it into the Temple de la Gloire, a military shrine to display the statues of France's most famous generals. [32]
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The two streets branch off of the Rue Royale at angles and form an emplacement for the Madeleine. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] It is named in honor of Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes , a minister and official under Louis XV and Louis XVI who was executed by guillotine during the Revolution. [ 4 ]
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