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            The Place des Vosges, located in the Marais district, is the oldest planned square in Paris. 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 Le Marais among the Parisian nobility. 

Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henry IV between 1605 and 1612. A true square (140m x 140m), it embodied one of the first European programs of royal city planning (Plaza Mayor in Madrid, begun in 1590, precedes it). It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens, which were demolished by Catherine de' Medici.

The Place Royale was inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the engagement of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, and became a prototype of the residential squares of European cities that were to come. What was new about the Place Royale, was that the house-fronts were all built to the same design, probably by Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau, of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. The steeply-pitched blue slate roofs are pierced with discreet small-paned dormers above the pedimented dormers that stand upon the cornices.

Taken on: July 20, 2025

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ70, f/5.5, 1/500 sec, 28.7mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-TZ70
Aperture:	f/5.5
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	28.7mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Landscape
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
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