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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Place des Vosges. Place des Vosges, Discovering the Historic Place des Vosges: Parisian Charm and Cultural Significance...
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    Vosges (French pronunciation: [voʒ] ) is a department in the Grand Est region, Northeastern France. It covers part of the Vosges mountain range, after...
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    XIII among the aristocrats of the Place des Vosges, Louis XIV preferred the company of the tax farmers in the Place Vendôme; each reflecting the group...
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    parks lie within the Vosges: the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park and the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park. The Northern Vosges Nature Park and the Palatinate...
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    Royal Square (Place Royale, current place des Vosges) was designed under King Henri IV of France in 1605, the Marais was the favoured place of residence...
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    United Kingdom, Belgium, United States, Canada, and Australia. The Place des Vosges in Paris (1605–1612) is one of the early examples of the type. Although...
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    between 1874 and 1882. It also contains the Renaissance square of Place des Vosges, the overtly modern Pompidou Centre, and the lively southern part of...
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    the place des Vosges, was born. J-A Dulaure, Histoire de Paris, Gabriel Roux, Paris, 1853, p. 189 Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1851, p.96 Le journal des Sçavans...
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    restaurant is in a period house on the southwestern corner of the Place des Vosges in Paris. The restaurant's founder and head chef is Bernard Pacaud...
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    "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 236 "Les statues des villes de la Concorde, formant les limites de la place, valorisent les richesses économiques du pays"...
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    Paris (category Populated places established in the 3rd century BC)
    Palace, and created the first Paris residential square, the Place Royale, now Place des Vosges. In spite of Henry IV's efforts to improve city circulation...
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    The Hôtel des Invalides (French pronunciation: [o.tɛl dez ɛ̃valid]; lit. 'House of the Invalids'), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation:...
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    lower part of the Champs-Élysées, from the Place de la Concorde to the Rond-Point, runs through the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park which contains the...
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    Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ dje de voʒ] ; German: Sankt Didel, before 1999: Saint-Dié) is a commune in the Vosges department, Grand...
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    The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (French pronunciation: [paʁk de byt ʃomɔ̃]; English: Park of the Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern...
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    residential square, facing the palace, similar to the square he began at the Place des Vosges a few years earlier. It was named for his son, the Dauphin of France...
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    Jewish quarter is called Pletzl and is located around the Rue des Rosiers. The Place des Vosges and the Lycée Charlemagne are nearby. The station was opened...
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    the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, including the Musée national des Monuments Français, in the eastern (Paris) wing, from which one also enters...
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    town square, Plein was constructed in 1632 and was inspired by the Place des Vosges in Paris. A statue of William the Silent, made by Dutch sculptor Lodewyk...
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    projects for public squares in Paris, the first being the Place Royale (now the Place des Vosges). He named it for his son, the Dauphin of France and future...
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    and little building took place there; it was largely open fields, or prés, which gave the quarter its name. The Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey in the center...
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    the Palais Royal, the newly joined Louvre and Tuileries Palace, the Place des Vosges, and the Luxembourg Garden. It was also a flourishing center of French...
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    CNEWS. "Paris 2024 : village des athlètes, Arena, centre aquatique... A J-500 du lancement, où en sont les chantiers pérennes des Jeux ?". Franceinfo. March...
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    popular promenade for the nobility, on foot or on horseback. Place Royale (renamed Place des Vosges in 1800) is a residential square and public park ordered...
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    was the younger brother of Louis Métezeau, who might have designed Place des Vosges in Paris; the similarity between the two squares is striking. The square...
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    central of these cemeteries, a burial ground around the 5th-century Notre-Dame-des-Bois church, became the property of the Saint-Opportune parish after the...
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    the Place des Vosges is the greatest monument to his architectural style and urban planning. Among Henry's other works are the Pont Neuf, the Place Dauphine...
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    a number of France's most famed men and women Place des Vosges - square in the Marais districte Place Vendôme Basilica of the Sacré Cœur - located in...
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    the association of Chinese travel agencies in France (Association Chinoise des Agences de Voyages en France), said "Chinese people romanticize France, they...
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    jousts and tournaments. On 30 June 1559, a tournament was held near Place des Vosges to celebrate the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis with his longtime enemies...
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