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Place des Vosges picture paris 360

23 Mai 2005 - 11h21
 
 
 
 
Once the appointment is royal place, the place des Vosges is instead the oldest of Paris, just after the Place Dauphine. She is the sister of the place Ducale of Charleville-Mezieres.
On 30 June 1559, near the current Place des Vosges, celebrating the marriage of his daughter Elisabeth with Philip II of Spain, Henri II of France fight against Gabriel Montgomery, captain of his Scottish Guard, who injured a coup spear in the eye. Despite the care of doctors and surgeons whose royal Ambroise Pare, authorized to reproduce the injury on freshly decapitated sentenced to better heal, and Vesalius, sent from Brussels, he died in atrocious suffering July 10, 1559. paris monuments panoramics, place des vosges 360
The Place des Vosges, born the "Place Royale," was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612, on the location of the hotel des Tournelles sad memory. It was inaugurated in 1612, during the betrothal of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria by a large carousel headed by Antoine de Pluvinel. paris pictures. The centre of the square was flat, sand, clear: it served as ground in the garden, tournaments, games of rings and sometimes also to duels some of whom have remained famous, like that which cost head Francois de Montmorency-Bouteville in 1627. It was renamed the Place des Vosges "in 1848 at the Days of February and the proclamation of the Second Republic. The name was chosen in honor of the Vosges department, the first to have paid the tax under the French revolution. 360 panoramic place des vosges
 
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