The Place Pigalle is a public square located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris , between the Boulevard de Clichy and the Boulevard de Rochechouart , near the Sacré-Cœur , at the foot of the Montmartre hill.
5-604: The square takes its name from the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785), and it is the best-known square of the Quartier Pigalle , the Pigalle district. This site is served by lines 2 and 12 at Pigalle metro station. In 1826, Mr. Brack was authorized to form on his land and on land that the city conceded to him by way of exchange, in accordance with the deliberation of the Conseil municipal of 1 June 1826,
10-877: A civilian, he arrived at around 5 p.m. on the Place Pigalle. When one of the rebels recognized him by his big white beard, he was taken to the Rue des Rosiers and executed. By 1900 the square and the surrounding streets were a neighbourhood of painters' studios and literary cafés of which the most renowned was the Nouvelle Athènes (New Athens). Also mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," p. 18, LOA edition, 2011 isbn 978-1-59853-098-8. Retrieved 02/12/2021 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist piɡal] ; 26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785 )
15-833: A street 12 meters wide, from the Rue Laval (now the Rue Victor-Massé) to the Porte Montmartre (Montmartre Gate), and a semi-circular square in front of this gate. In 1864, this square, named the Place de la Barrière-Montmartre , was renamed the Place Pigalle . On 18 March 1871, General Clément Thomas , having learned that General Claude Lecomte had been seized by the insurgents during the Paris Commune uprising, set out to find him. Dressed in disguise as
20-519: Is less commonplace than that of his more mature years, but his nude statue of Voltaire , dated 1776 (initially in the Institut de France , purchased by the Louvre in 1962), and his tombs of Comte d'Harcourt (c. 1764) ( Notre-Dame de Paris ) and of Marshal Saxe , completed in 1777 (Saint-Thomas Lutheran church, Strasbourg ), are good examples of French sculpture in the 18th century. Pigalle taught
25-681: Was a French sculptor whose work was influenced by both baroque and neo-classical trends. Pigalle was born in Paris , the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the Prix de Rome , after a severe struggle he entered the Académie Royale and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day. His earlier work, such as Child with Cage (model at Sèvres ) and Mercury Fastening his Sandals ( Berlin , and lead cast in Louvre ),
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