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Place Vendôme, Paris. The Place Vendôme (French pronunciation: [plas vɑ̃dom]), earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the 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.
In 2004, Chopard, a retailer of luxury watches and jewellery, opened a boutique on the ground floor of the hotel with an entrance on the Rue Saint-Honoré. In 2014 Chopard purchased the entire hotel from its previous owner, the UHP (Union Hôtelière Parisienne). [ 6 ]
Vendôme (in Latin: Vindocinum) appears originally to have been a Gallic oppidum, replaced later by a feudal castle, around which the modern town arose.Christianity was introduced by Saint Bienheuré in the 5th century, and the important abbey of the Trinity (which claimed to possess a tear shed by Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus) was founded about 1030.
The Order of the Capuchin Poor Clares was introduced to France by Queen Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, who wanted to create a convent in Bourges to be buried at. Upon her death on January 29, 1601, she bequeathed to her brother, Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, a sum of 60,000 livre tournois to build it; however, he died in February of 1602.
The arrondissement of Vendôme was created in 1800. [4] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Loir-et-Cher, it gained two communes from the arrondissement of Blois, and it lost four communes to the arrondissement of Blois.
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Vendôme Tower (Maltese: Torri Vendôme, colloquially Torri tal-Vandomu) [1] is a tour-reduit in Marsaxlokk, Malta.It was built by the Order of Saint John in 1715 as one of a series of fortifications around the coasts of the Maltese Islands.
City officials in Venice, Italy, have committed to a 30-day experiment in which visitors will be charged a 5 euro entrance fee on peak days. City officials in Venice, Italy, have committed to a 30 ...