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48-587: Place Vendome may refer to: Place Vendôme , a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France Place Vendôme (film) , a 1998 French film Place Vendome (band) , a rock band Place Vendome (Place Vendome album) , their 2005 debut album Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album) , a jazz album by the Swingle Singers and the Modern Jazz Quartet (1966) Topics referred to by

96-495: A better, more augustly classicizing one by Louis-Napoléon (later Napoléon III) . Regardless of the political assessment of Karl Marx 's theory, one thing is certain: he predicted the collapse of the Vendôme Column long before it happened. This prediction was given by him in the political pamphlet Le 18 Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte of 1852. This pamphlet, sharply critical of the political figure of Napoleon III, ends with

144-593: A parliamentary document on 15 January 1557 and, without any legal authority beyond their dignity as princes of the Blood Royal , they continued to bear it for the next three centuries. He was succeeded by his son Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé . Louis, the first Prince, actually gave the Condé property to his youngest son, Charles (1566–1612), Count of Soissons. Charles' only son Louis (1604–1641) left Condé and Soissons to female heirs in 1624, who married into

192-506: A pediment, to create palace-like fronts. The arcading of the formally rusticated ground floors does not provide an arcaded passageway as at the Place des Vosges. The architectural linking of the windows from one floor to the next, and the increasing arch of their windowheads, provide an upward spring to the horizontals formed by ranks of windows. Originally the square was accessible by a single street and preserved an aristocratic quiet, except when

240-504: A title of French nobility (count or duke), suffixed with their appanage (e.g. Count of Charolais), while unmarried daughters used one of their fathers' subsidiary properties to form a courtesy style (e.g. Mademoiselle de Clermont). The Hôtel de Condé became the Parisian base of the Condé family in 1610, in what is now the 6th district of Paris. In 1722, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon , wife of Louis III, Prince of Condé , started building

288-560: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Place Vend%C3%B4me The Place Vendôme was begun in 1698 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque , and called the Place des Conquêtes, to be renamed the Place Louis le Grand, when the conquests proved temporary. An over life-size equestrian statue of the king by François Girardon (1699)

336-689: Is the setting for the theft of the Black Pearl in Episode 1 of Season 3 of the Netflix series Lupin . The Place Vendôme is: It is served by lines [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] . 48°52′03″N 2°19′46″E  /  48.86750°N 2.32944°E  / 48.86750; 2.32944 Princes of Cond%C3%A9 The Most Serene House of Bourbon-Condé ( pronounced [buʁbɔ̃ kɔ̃de] ), named after Condé-en-Brie (now in

384-716: The Aisne département ), was a French princely house and a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon . The name of the house was derived from the title of Prince of Condé (French: prince de Condé ) that was originally assumed around 1557 by the French Protestant leader Louis de Bourbon (1530–1569), uncle of King Henry IV of France , and borne by his male-line descendants. This line became extinct in 1830 when his eighth-generation descendant, Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon , died without surviving male issue. The princely title

432-667: The Château de Condé in Condé-en-Brie , Picardy , which they ceased to own by 1624; the Château de Vallery , built from 1548 for the Marshal of Saint André , acquired by Louis I de Bourbon-Condé in 1564 and kept by the family until 1747; and the Château de Chantilly , previously a Montmorency property from 1484 to 1632 and a Condé estate afterward. The latter was the home of the Grand Condé during his exile from court, and

480-565: The Column of the Grande Armée at Boulogne-sur-Mer), though the statuette of Victory is still to be seen in the salon Napoléon of the Hôtel des Monnaies (which also contains a model of the column and a likeness of Napoleon's face copied from his death mask ). A replacement statue of Napoléon in modern dress (a bicorn hat, boots and a redingote ), however, was erected by Louis-Philippe , and

528-451: The Duke of Bourbon ) had in 1685 married Louise-Françoise de Bourbon , the legitimated daughter of Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan . The couple had many children and produced an heir to the Condé titles and lands. Their son was Louis Henri de Bourbon-Condé , duc de Bourbon . He led a quiet life and was known at court as Monsieur le Duc after the loss of

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576-427: The House of Bourbon , which traces its male-line descent from Robert, Count of Clermont (1256–1318), a younger son of France's Saint-King Louis IX . Of the sons of Charles of Vendôme, the eldest, Antoine, became jure uxoris King of Navarre and fathered Henry IV. The youngest son, Louis, inherited the lordships of Meaux , Nogent , Condé, and Soissons as his appanage . Louis was titled Prince of Condé in

624-493: The Hôtel des Invalides . Courbet argued that: In as much as the Vendôme Column is a monument devoid of all artistic value, tending to perpetuate by its expression the ideas of war and conquest of the past imperial dynasty, which are reproved by a republican nation's sentiment, citizen Courbet expresses the wish that the National Defense government will authorise him to disassemble this column. His project as proposed

672-711: The Palais Bourbon , which in 1764 became the Condé family's main Parisian residence. They sold the Hôtel de Condé to the King in 1770, and it was demolished around 1780 to be replaced by a new neighborhood around the theater that later became known as the Odéon . Another Parisian property, still known as the Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé (12 rue Monsieur), was built and inhabited between 1780 and 1789 by Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon-Condé . The family had several residences outside Paris –

720-636: The Ritz . Many famous dress designers have had their salons in the square. The only two remaining are the shirtmaker Charvet , at number 28, whose store has been on the Place Vendôme since 1877, and the couturier Chéruit , at number 21, reestablished in 2008. Since 1718, the Ministry of Justice , also known as the "Chancellerie", is located at the Hotel de Bourvallais located at numbers 11 and 13. Right on

768-468: The Savoy and Orléans-Longueville dynasties. Upon the accession to France's throne of Henry IV of Bourbon in 1589, his first cousin-once-removed Henry, Prince of Condé (1588–1646), was heir presumptive to the crown until 1601. Although Henry's own descendants thereafter held the senior positions within the royal family of dauphin , Fils de France , and petits-fils de France , from 1589 to 1709

816-694: The lordship of Condé-en-Brie in Champagne , consisting of the Château of Condé and a dozen villages some fifty miles east of Paris. It had passed from the sires of Avesnes, to the Counts of St. Pol . When Marie de Luxembourg-St. Pol wed François, Count of Vendôme (1470–1495) in 1487, Condé-en-Brie became part of the Bourbon-Vendôme patrimony . After the extinction in 1527 of the Dukes of Bourbon , François's son Charles (1489–1537) became head of

864-639: The victory of Austerlitz ; its veneer of 425 spiralling bas-relief bronze plates was made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda. (The usual figure given is hugely exaggerated: 180 cannon were actually captured at Austerlitz. ) These plates were designed by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and executed by a team of about 30 sculptors including Jean-Joseph Foucou , Louis-Simon Boizot , François Joseph Bosio , Lorenzo Bartolini , Claude Ramey , François Rude , Corbet, Clodion , Julie Charpentier , and Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel . A statue of Napoleon by Antoine-Denis Chaudet

912-547: The French government seized and sold the artist's paintings for a minor amount, and Courbet died in exile in December 1877. In 1874 meanwhile, the column was re-erected at the center of the Place Vendôme with a copy of the original statue on top. An inner staircase leading to the top is no longer open to the public. At the centre of the square's long sides, Hardouin-Mansart's range of Corinthian pilasters breaks forward under

960-661: The Place Vendôme by guardsmen who, after being fired on, opened fire on the crowd. At least 12 people were killed and many wounded. During the Paris Commune in 1871, the painter Gustave Courbet , president of the Federation of Artists and elected member of the Commune, who had previously expressed his dismay that this monument to war was located on the Rue de la Paix, proposed that the column be disassembled and preserved at

1008-778: The Place Vendôme was renamed the Place Internationale in celebration of the Communards' promotion of international fraternity. After the suppression of the Paris Commune by Adolphe Thiers , the decision was made to rebuild the column with the statue of Napoléon restored at its apex. For his role in the Commune, Courbet was condemned to pay the costs of rebuilding the monument, estimated at 323,000 francs , in yearly installments of 10,000 francs. Unable to pay, Courbet went into self-imposed exile in Switzerland,

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1056-562: The Princes of Condé coincidentally held the rank at court of premier prince du sang royal (First Prince of the Blood Royal), to which was attached income, precedence , and ceremonial privilege (such as the exclusive right to be addressed as Monsieur le prince at court ). However, the position of premier prince devolved upon the ducs d'Orléans in 1710, so the seventh Prince, Louis III (1668–1710) declined to make use of

1104-462: The Soissons estates passed to his younger sister, Marie de Bourbon-Condé, the wife of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano , a younger brother of the sovereign Duke of Savoy . Although she received 400,000 livres in annual revenues from the Soissons estates, lived in the Hôtel de Soissons where, according to Saint-Simon , she "maintained the traditions of the Soissons", she continued to be known as

1152-489: The adjacent Justice Ministry to expand its premises. The Foire Saint-Ovide settled in 1764 on the Place until 1771. When France established diplomatic relations with the short-lived Republic of Texas , the Texan legation was housed at Hôtel Bataille de Francès in 1 Place Vendôme. The original column was started in 1806 at Napoleon 's direction and completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan's Column , to celebrate

1200-684: The annual fair was held there. Then Napoléon opened the Rue de la Paix , and the 19th century filled the Place Vendôme with traffic. It was only after the opening in 1875 of the Palais Garnier on the other side of the Rue de la Paix that the centre of the Parisian fashionable life started gravitating around the Rue de la Paix and the Place Vendôme. Hôtels particuliers on the Place Vendôme: The Place Vendôme has been renowned for its fashionable and deluxe hotels such as

1248-580: The column, but it had refused to budge – one woman quipped: "If the Emperor is as solid on his throne as this statue is on its column, he's nowhere near descending the throne". After the Bourbon Restoration the statue, though not the column, was pulled down and melted down to provide the bronze for the recast equestrian statue of Henry IV on the Pont Neuf (as was bronze from sculptures on

1296-496: The company of the tax farmers in the Place Vendôme; each reflecting the group they had favoured in life. The site of the square was formerly the hôtel of César de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme , the illegitimate son of Henry IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées . Hardouin-Mansart bought the building and its gardens, with the idea of converting it into building lots as a profitable speculation. The plan did not materialize, and Louis XIV's Minister of Finance, Louvois , purchased

1344-480: The death of Louis François II de Bourbon, prince de Conti . The Princes of Conti were as follows: At his death, the title became extinct because the prince died without issue. The title was assumed in 1629 by: The first prince de Conti was also the brother of the founder of the House of Bourbon-Soissons , Charles de Bourbon-Soissons . The comtes de Soissons were addressed at court as Monsieur le Comte and their wives as Madame la Comtesse . The members of

1392-542: The exiled Condé branch of the House of Bourbon who later returned to the country to reclaim their land in the town of Vendôme itself. Between 1720 and 1797, they acquired much of the square, including a freehold to parts of the site on which the Hôtel Ritz Paris now stands and in which they still maintain apartments. Their intention to restore a family palace on the site was dependent on the possible intentions of

1440-418: The financier John Law took on the project, built himself a residence behind one of the façades, and the square was complete by 1720, just as his paper-money Mississippi bubble burst. Law suffered a major blow when he was forced to pay back taxes amounting to some tens of millions of dollars. With no way to pay such an amount, he was forced to sell the property he owned on the square. The buyers were members of

1488-476: The ground, a huge mass of ruin. An immense dust and smoke from the stones and crumpled clay rose up and an instant after a crowd of men, National Guards, Communards, and a sight-seeing Englishman flew upon it, and commenced to get bits of it as remembrance, but the excitement was so intense that people moved about as in a dream. Immediately following the destruction of the column and in repudiation of its perceived glorification of national chauvinism and bellicosity,

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1536-494: The house were: The line started in 1566 when the title of Count of Soissons was given to Charles de Bourbon-Condé , the second son of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé , the first Prince of Condé. The Soissons title had been acquired by the first Prince of Condé in 1557 and was held by his descendants for two more generations with Charles de Bourbon-Condé, 1st comte de Soissons, and Louis de Bourbon-Condé, 2nd comte de Soissons. The 2nd comte de Soissons died without an heir, so

1584-572: The male-line ancestors of the branches of the Princes of Conti (which flourished 1629–1814) and the Counts of Soissons (1566–1641). Although both the sons and daughters of these branches of the House of Bourbon held the rank of princes et princesses du sang , it never became the custom in France for them to use prince or princess as a prefix to their Christian names. Rather, sons took

1632-452: The other side of the Place Vendôme, number 14 houses the Paris office of JP Morgan , the investment bank, and number 20 the office of Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity). After his death in 1990, American artist Keith Haring was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled out on a hillside near Kutztown , except for one handful, that Yoko Ono brought to the Place Vendôme because she believed

1680-415: The piece of ground, with the object of building a square, modelled on the successful Place des Vosges of the previous century. Louvois came into financial difficulties and nothing came of his project, either. After his death, the king purchased the plot and commissioned Hardouin-Mansart to design a house-front that the buyers of plots round the square would agree to adhere to. When the state finances ran low,

1728-427: The princesse de Carignan. On her death, the Soissons countship passed first to her second son, Prince Joseph-Emmanuel of Savoy-Carignano (1631–1656), and then to her third son, Prince Eugène-Maurice of Savoy-Carignano . He married Olympia Mancini , niece of Cardinal Mazarin . She was known as Madame la Comtesse de Soissons . On his death, the title went to his eldest son, Prince Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignano , who

1776-507: The rank of premier prince du sang in 1723. After his death the family retreated from court life but Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé was vital in the forming of the Army of Condé - formed to support his cousin Louis XVI during his imprisonment during the revolution. He was the longest holder of the title, being known as the prince de Condé for seventy-eight years. His son married

1824-422: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Place Vendome . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Place_Vendome&oldid=815084906 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1872-403: The sister of Louis Philippe II d'Orléans better known as Philippe Égalité . She was called Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans . She was the last princesse de Condé and mother of Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé - titled duc d'Enghien . He was executed by Napoleon I of France at the Château de Vincennes . With the death of the duc d'Enghien , the heir to the Condé name, his father

1920-529: The spirit of Haring had told her to. In the 1920s, American architect, Alonzo C. Webb worked making advertisements and designs in English for some of the fashionable houses along the Place Vendôme. Place Vendôme was a 1998 movie by Nicole Garcia starring Catherine Deneuve . Mark Twain made reference to the Vendôme Column in his speech Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism . The Place Vendôme

1968-401: The title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary peerage of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as Monsieur le Duc . Subsequent heirs likewise preferred the ducal to the princely title. After the death of Henry III Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé in 1709, the family were in regular attendance at court. Louis de Bourbon-Condé (at that point known as

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2016-523: The words: "But if the Imperial mantle finally falls on the shoulders of Louis Bonaparte, the bronze statue of Napoleon will fall from the height of the Vendôme Column". During the events in the run-up to the founding of the Commune, the 22 of March 1871 saw disturbances outside the National Guard when demonstrators holding banners declaring them to be "Friends of Peace" were blocked from entering

2064-604: Was donated by the city authorities and set up in its centre. It is believed to be the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece. It was destroyed in the French Revolution ; however, there is a small version in the Louvre . This led to the popular joke that while Henri IV dwelled among the people by the Pont Neuf , and Louis XIII among the aristocrats of the Place des Vosges , Louis XIV preferred

2112-481: Was held for one last time by Louis d'Orléans, Prince of Condé , who died in 1866. The Princes of Condé descend from the Vendôme family – the progenitors of the modern House of Bourbon . There was never a principality , sovereign or vassal , of Condé. The name merely served as the territorial source of a title adopted by Louis, who inherited from his father, Charles IV de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1489–1537),

2160-455: Was not adopted, though on 12 April 1871 legislation was passed authorizing the dismantling of the imperial symbol. When the column was taken down on 16 May its bronze plates were preserved. After employing a series of ropes and quarry workers, observers saw that the statue... ...fell over on the heap of sand prepared for it, with a mighty crash. There was no concussion on the ground, the column broke up almost before it reached its bed, and lay on

2208-625: Was placed on top of the column. Napoleon is depicted dressed in Roman attire, bare-headed, crowned with laurels, holding a sword in his right hand and a globe surmounted with a statue of Victory (as in Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker ) in his left hand. In 1816, taking advantage of the Allied occupying force, a mob of men and horses had attached a cable to the neck of the statue of Napoleon atop

2256-534: Was the last holder of the title. After his death in 1830 the Condé lands passed to the last prince's cousin Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale whose eldest son Louis was later a prince de Condé after gaining the title from his father. The House of Bourbon-Conti was formed in 1581 by François de Bourbon, prince de Conti . He was the son of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé . The house became extinct in 1814 upon

2304-430: Was the older brother of the famous Austrian general, Prince Eugene of Savoy . The Soissons countship became extinct upon the death of Prince Eugène-Jean-François of Savoy-Carignano in 1734. The eldest sons of the Princes of Condé used the title of Duke of Enghien and were addressed as Monsieur le Duc until that style came to be pre-empted by their fathers, as Dukes of Bourbon, after 1709. The Princes of Condé were also

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