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place des Vosges
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Key facts
- Length
- 140 m (460 ft)
- Width
- 140 m (460 ft)
- Arrondissement
- 3rd , 4th
- Quarter
- Archives. Arsenal.
- From
- rue de Birague, 11 bis
- To
- rue de Béarn, 1
- Completion
- July 1605
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- garden square
- Named after
- Vosges
- Official name
- place des Vosges
- Country
- France
- Located in
- 4th arrondissement of Paris
- Location
- Quartier des Archives
- Image
- Places des Vosges, Paris - SW Fountain.jpg
- Width
- 140
- Length
- 140
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- Commons category
- Place des Vosges (Paris)
- topic's main category
- Category:Place des Vosges (Paris)
- Commons gallery
- Place des Vosges
- inception
- 1605-07-00
- P8168
- Carinaria lamarckii
- native label
- Place des Vosges
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Place des Vosges ( French: [plas de voʒ]; lit. 'Vosges Square'), originally the Place Royale ('Royal Square'), is the oldest planned square in Paris, just before the Place Dauphine. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements. It is an enclosed square, accessible via a main street on one of its four sides and two streets running beneath pavilions. It was a fashionable and expensive square to live in during the 17th and 18th centuries, and one of the main reasons for the chic nature of the Marais among the Parisian nobility. Along with the Place des Victoires, the Place Dauphine, the Place Vendôme and the Place de la Concorde, it is one of the five royal squares in Paris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “place des Vosges” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.