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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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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    United Kingdom, Belgium, United States, Canada, and Australia. The Place des Vosges in Paris (1605–1612) is one of the early examples of the style. Although...
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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 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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    house on the southwestern corner of the Place des Vosges in Paris. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Place des Vosges was an upper-class and noble neighborhood...
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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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    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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    The Hôtel des Invalides (English: "house of invalids"), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation: [lezɛ̃valid]), is a complex of buildings...
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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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    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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    Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ dje de voʒ] ; German: Sankt Didel), commonly referred to as just Saint-Dié, is a commune in the Vosges department...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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 de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of...
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  • and produced by his sister Isild Le Besco. Kolia's first role was in Place des Vosges (1991), directed by his mother, when he was barely a toddler. He later...
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  • au 37 Entrée de l'Hôtel de Coulanges La rue des Francs-Bourgeois, direction la Place des Vosges. "Rue des Francs-Bourgeois". ParisMarais: The Art of Living...
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    The Place des Victoires is a circular place in Paris, located a short distance northeast from the Palais Royal and straddling the border between the 1st...
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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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    ecole maternelle. Place des Vosges (1830). The original fountain by Pierre Simon Girard in the Place des Vosges (renamed la place Royale during the Restoration)...
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