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Tourist informations
Monuments
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The Place Vendôme is typical of the French classical town-planning. Its architecture is due to Jules Hardouin-Mansart who designed in 1699 a strict town-planning plan that the building owners had to respect. Most fronts are listed as historical monuments. In its centre is the Colonne Vendôme. It is one of the places in Paris which are globally famous. It is located north Jardin des Tuileries and east Madeleine church.
It was called Place Vendôme since the XVIIth century, because of the Hotel Vendôme which was located there. It was former called Place Louis le Grand, and was originally the Place des Conquêtes. During the French Revolution, it was called Place des Piques. It was also called Place Internationale in 1871, during the Second Paris Commune, when the Colonne Vendôme was destroyed by Communards, who turned it into a symbol of tyranny and Napoleon’s militarism.
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