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The Place des Vosges (French pronunciation: [plas de voʒ]), originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.
The Henry IV style was the predominant architectural idiom in France under the patronage of Henry IV (1589–1610). The modernisation of Paris was a major concern of Henry's, and the Place des Vosges is the greatest monument to his architectural style and urban planning .
The site was chosen to give access to the Place Royale - today the Place des Vosges. The Marais was then an especially fashionable area for the high nobility ; the construction of the Hôtel de Sully fits in a larger movement of monumental building in this part of Paris.
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. It is the starting point of the Rue de ...
The museum is in the Place des Vosges (3rd and 4th arrondissement of Paris) and dates from 1605 when a lot was granted to Isaac Arnauld in the south-east corner of the square. It was substantially improved by the de Rohans family, who gave the building its current name of Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée.
A statue located near the Grand Pont de Saint-Dié des Vosges, at the entrance to rue Thiers, recalls this concept aimed at uniting the golden ratio and modular construction. [4] The Claude-et-Duval clothing factory remains the only imprint of the Saint-Dié town center reconstruction project led by Le Corbusier in 1945–1946.
"The Place des Vosges... is Paris's oldest (and some say most beautiful) square." I feel that this is unnecessarily POV. Skiasaurus 20:06, 3 January 2006 (UTC) There should be more emphasis on the fact that the King wanted the Royalty to move back to Paris...This was thought to be the modivation behind it all.
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