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	Place Vendome And Its History
		The square was to be known as the Place de Louis-le-Grand and a huge statue of Louis XIV on horseback was to be placed in the center of it, and actually was placed there later.
		In the early days of the square the Place Vendome was used for the annual fair of SainteOvide, even though, in those days, the only street that ran into it was a narrow alley which ran to the of the Tuileries.
		The Colonne Vendome was fashioned after the column of Trajan in Rome, but like so many other things in Paris that were fashioned after something else, it is just about one third higher than the column it was fashioned after, or one hundred forty-four feet as against the latter's one hundred.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles03/paris2.shtml (2255 words)

	paris - monuments - place vendome
		Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine.
		After some false starts, the Place was laid out in 1702 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque and called Place des Conquetes, to be renamed Place Louis le Grand, when the conquests proved temporary; an equestrian statue of the king was set up in its center.
		Napoleon erected the present column, modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its spiralling veneers of bas-relief bronze plates (by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret) were made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda.
	www.monument-paris.com /place-vendome.htm (259 words)

	Place Vendome- Paris, France - VirtualTourist.com
		In the centre of Place Vendôme is a column showing all of Napoleon's victories, made by the led of all his canyons.
		Place des Victoires has a statue of Louis XIV in the centre and it's now home of great names of "haute couture".
		A little more luxurious and exclusive perhaps than the Place de la Concorde, the Place Vendome is set off from the city streets and enclosed by a fine ring of buildings including the luxury hotel from which Princess Diana left on her final outing.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/Things_To_Do-Paris-Place_Vendome-R-2.html (570 words)

	Discover Paris! - February 2006 - Place Vendome - A Square Fit for a King
		Of the 23 or so historic places that embellish the city, five were built to venerate a king (or in the case of Place Dauphine, a king's son) who ruled France at the time of the square's construction.
		Place de la Concorde, for example, was built to honor Louis XV.
		Not content with only the Place des Victoires as a tribute to his royalty, Louis XIV ordered the construction of a second square at the site of today's Place Vendôme. He appointed his director of public works, the Marquis of Louvois, to oversee the construction.
	www.discoverparis.net /Place-Vendome-A-Square-Fit-for-a-King.html (1120 words)

	Review: Place Vendome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Place Vendôme, from actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia, is a character study masquerading as a thriller.
		Place Vendôme has its share of mysteries, but none of them are revealed or resolved with the kind of narrative twists common to movies of this sort.
		Catherine Deneuve, who was 55 years old when Place Vendôme was filmed, still possesses the same powerful screen presence she had 36 years ago when she sung her way into our hearts in Jacques Demy's classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/place_vendome.html (812 words)

	Place Vendome, Paris
		To the north of the Tuileries is the Place Vendôme, a magnificent square built in the late 17th and early 18th C which has preserved its original form.
		The square, then called Place Louis le Grand, was laid out by Jules Hardouin Mansart, one of the leading architects of the "Grand Siècle" under Louis XIV.
		The charm of the Place Vendôme, one of the finest examples of harmonious urban architecture in Europe, is that it has retained, unspoiled, the consistency of the overall design, successfully combining regal ostentation with civic simplicity.
	www.planetware.com /paris/place-vendome-f-p-plv.htm (323 words)

	Place Vendome
		Originally named Place des Conquêtes, a large statue of Louis XIV, created by sculptor Girardon, was placed in the center of the Place, in 1720, and the name was changed to Place Louis le Grand.
		By the 19th century, the Place had become a showcase of luxury and prestige which it continues to be.
		The 44 meter column standing in the center of the Place was designed by Denon, Gondouin and Lepére, constructed between 1806 and 1810 and commissioned by Napoleon to honor the soldiers at the Battle of Austerlitz, and himself.
	www.paris-walking-tours.com /placevendome.html (515 words)

	Paris MYSTERIOUS : Place Vendome map rue de la Paix - History and description
		To clear sufficient space for this imposing place planners had to pull down several buildings, amongst them the Cupucines Convent, remembered in the form of an adjacent street that today bears its name, la rue Capucines.
		The royal and majestic architecture of this place is the work of Jules-Hardouin Mansart, architect of Versailles, work that was somewhat sullied during the French Revolution, revolutionaries choosing the symbolic location to display on stakes the heads of those unfortunate to have attracted their wrath.
		Pulled down during the Paris Commune, responsibility for the reconstruction and restoration was placed on the head of the anarchist painter Gustave Courbet, himself one of those responsible for the provocative act.
	www.parisbestlodge.com /placevendome.html (331 words)

	Images of Place Vendome, Paris, France. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Begun during the reign of Louis XIV, this example of city-planning is a rectangular space (a city square is "place" in French) with residences for the wealthy along the sides but with cut-off or beveled corners.
		The square is closed except for two openings, which form the main axis.
		See also his Church of the Invalides and Place des Vosges, another example of early urban planning.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/vendome/vendome.html (188 words)

	The Intriguing Past and Present of the Place Vendôme in Paris
		There’s a curious silence to the Place Vendôme, a sense that this 17th-century architectural gem has successfully defeated the noise and traffic of modern Paris.
		The Place Vendôme is still a haunt of the rich, but since the turn of the century, new names have arrived: the world’s premier jewelers, designers and perfumers, as well as prominent banks, which manage the money of the luxury shops’ patrons.
		I’m talking about the 18th-century hotel at One Place Vendôme. After passing through the hands of King Louis’ secretary Pierre Perrin, it was owned by various French notables and from 1842 to 1843, housed the Embassy of the Republic of Texas.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/December03/TheIngriguingPastandPresent.htm (1691 words)

	Écran Noir - Catherine Deneuve - Place Vendôme (english)
		Thought she does retain some of her grace and elegance, Marianne lives in a boozy stupor most of the time...until the day she discovers seven magnificient diamonds stashed away in her husband's hidden chest.
		Paris' famous Place Vendôme is marked by several attributes - 18th century buildings and their superbly ordered facades, brillant gem necklaces and other sparkling finery showcased in Haute Couture's sumptuous jewelry shops, the extremes of the pure beauty of the gems and the ineluctable money and greed surrounding them.
		Behind the sumptuous showcase of the Place Vendôme, we follow her into the workshops where the gems are cut and polished with expert craftmanship.
	www.ecrannoir.fr /deneuve/films/vendomee.htm (878 words)

	Paris - Place Vendome
		It was originally named the Place des Conquêtes (Square Of Conquests); it then was called the Place Louis-le-Grand, and it became the Place des Piques during the Revolution.
		Originally, the Place Vendome held Girardon's equestrian statue of Louis XIV.
		The architects who designed the square, Boffard and Hardouin-Mansart, placed buildings on three sides of the square, leaving the south side open.
	www.pariserve.tm.fr /English/paris/tuileries/place-vendome.htm (232 words)

	Place Vendôme ( Panorama ) - FM Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Place Vendôme, home of bankers and jewellers, on a dull day.
		Brings back great memories, as the Ritz is where my wife and I went for a cocktail right after I asked her to marry me at Saint Chappelle.
		You have certainly chosen two of the most beautiful settings in Paris to ask your wife to marry you...These are events and places that you're not going to forget.
	www.fredmiranda.com /forum/viewtopic_archives.php?TopicID=22308&page=0#192155 (350 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Place Vendome [1999]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The wife of a jeweller on the Place Vendome is picking up the pieces of her life after her husband's suicide.
		Place Vendome follows the decadent, indolent life of a rich, high society drunk (Deneuve) as she comes to terms with the death of her husband.
		At turns thriller, drama and romance Place Vendome will leave you with the sense of having seen, touched and even gorged on the opulent lives detailed therein.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D2WG (758 words)

	DVD Times - Place Vendôme
		Place Vendôme is a stylish film about a stylish milieu and characters, and it holds your attention for the two hours that it’s on, though on the basis of a single viewing perhaps not the most essential or memorable foreign film of recent years.
		Catherine Deneuve was the model for “Marianne” (the personification of France, in the same way that Britannia is for Britain), so the naming of her character here has to be ironic.
		Place Vendôme is certainly worth seeing, though whether it's worth buying at a RRP of £19.99 is another matter.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5744 (655 words)

	PLACE VENDOME; Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner
		Usually, the viewer is confronted with raw emotional states of characters and their damaged state of mind and being that come across more as a contemplative study of the sorry state of human existence rather than a vehicle for entertainment.
		Unlike in commercial American cinema, these characters are neither heroic nor virtuous, and at the end of the movie, even if they walk into the sunset, they are merely given the promise of leading uneventful, average, normal lives of decent people, rather than becoming larger than life symbols of glorious achievement.
		Place Vendôme, the famous Paris square likely seen on every tourist brochure as the center of French jewelry trade, is the location of Malivert Jewelers, a prestigious diamond store with world-wide clientele.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/place_vendome.htm (737 words)

	Place Vendome
		"Place Vendome" is set in the famous French square of the same name in the guarded yet casual business of gem dealing.
		It's a pleasure to see a film deliver so much attention to detail, fleshing out the place and setting as much as the characters, and it's even better when that attention is carried over to the characters.
		"Place Vendome" is a finely observed character study of a woman who comes back to life not a minute too late and a clever whodunit that ends with a mysterious and satisfying act of redemption.
	www.eclipse.net /~tyrell/c_i_n_e_m_a/2000_films/Place_Vendome/place_vendome.html (946 words)

	>FromParis - Panoramas : virtual visit, panoramic views, photographs, Quicktime VR, 360°, free ecards and free ...
		Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Ste Marie Madeleine.
		Originally a statue of Napoléon a Caesar was placed on top.
		During 1873 - 1874, the column was reestablished at the center of Place Vendôme with a copy of the original statue on top.
	www.fromparis.com /html/panoramas.php?pano=000017_01 (463 words)

	'Place Vendome'
		The Place Vendome, as all upscale visitors to Paris know, is the dazzling hub of international diamond shops and jewelry establishments in a superbly preserved 18th-century architectural setting.
		But she was once in the diamond biz herself, and existential ennui -- plus financial necessity -- combine to revive her old skills and find a buyer for the seven magnificent gems Vincent stowed away for her before his demise.
		A fine supporting cast, beautifully lush score, and Antonioni-esque pace and cinematography lend additional sparkle to "Place Vendome," opening today at the Regent Square, but this gem is awfully plotty.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20010105vendome7.asp (402 words)

	Wellington Film Society - PLACE VENDOME
		It is subtly scripted, making discreetly resonant use of doublings: Nathalie with Marianne in her youth; Marianne and the disbarred lawyer Jean Pierre brought together through a shared professional disgrace; Battistelli and Vincent as respectively treacherous and supportive father figures to their trophy lover/wife.
		In a curious way PLACE VENDOME has affinities with the heritage movie, reassuring us that the uppermost echelons of Parisian chic - the eponymous square and Catherine Deneuve - are still as potent as before.
		The colonnaded elegance of the Place Vendome is a spatial counterpart of Deneuve the ice maiden, but not until the very end do we find an equivalent for her character's fragility issuing in wonderfully understated strength.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /db/screeningdetail.php?id=363&sy=2005 (523 words)

	The Place Vendôme does not feel the pain
		On the other hand, though, her description of the Place needs to be tempered with another reality.
		The Place Vendôme did not seem to suffer the before- or after-effects of September 11, 2001.
		After all, did not Suisse Tourisme, the company that organizes tourism in Switzerland, choose the Place for a large promotional and artistic event at the end of the yearı During more than a month, in collaboration with the Comité Vendôme, the Place will be completely transformed by a prestigious and scintillating occasion.
	www.europastar.com /europastar/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000732709 (755 words)

	PLACE VENDOME
		Don't expect ol' Cletus to be in the ticket line with you for Place Vendôme (unless inbreeding has suddenly created a race of hillbillies with a fondness for subtle French noir).
		The film was released over two years ago in Europe, where it was a smash sensation, garnering star Catherine Deneuve a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and racking up an impressive 12 César nominations (the French equivalent of the Oscar).
		She learns that their jewelry store is on the verge of bankruptcy and that Vincent has been having an affair with a woman (The Ninth Gate's Emmanuelle Seigner) who could be a younger version of Marianne (literally, in one flashback).
	www.sick-boy.com /placevendome.htm (562 words)

	Place Vendome - Frontiers Records Showcase. Highlighting the best new melodic releases available.
		During the winter of 2004 Michael, whose voice is still nowadays regarded as one of the most fascinating of the whole scene in rock (hence his participation in several rock operas including the very successful “Avantasia” and “Aina”), accepted to be part of a melodic rock oriented project patronized by Frontiers Records' President Serafino Perugino.
		The resulting PLACE VENDOME debut album includes songs set to follow a straight melodic rock sound, "comparable to bands like FOREIGNER or JOURNEY", according to Kiske.
		Production duties are handled by PINK CREAM 69's Dennis Ward, with songs written on purpose for the record by himself with his bandmates David Readman and Alfred Koffler, with contributions also from Gunther Werno of VANDENPLAS.
	www.melodicrock.com /showcase/placevendome.html (522 words)

	Place Vendome biography @ Tartareandesire.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		PLACE VENDOME is a brand-new project featuring former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske along with PINK CREAM 69 members Dennis Ward, Uwe Reitenauer, and Kosta Zafiriou, plus VANDEN PLAS ivory tinkler Gunther Werno.
		PLACE VENDOME (named after the world-renowned square in Paris) is said to feature a straight melodic rock/AOR sound, "comparable to bands like FOREIGNER or JOURNEY," according to Kiske.
		Production duties were handled by Ward, who wrote the material with his bandmates David Readman and Alfred Koffler, with contributions from Werno.
	www.tartareandesire.com /bands/placevendome.html (119 words)

	Metal-Rules.com
		Place Vendome is a new project fronted by Michael Kiske.
		The project has recently released its debut album and I hooked up with Michael to interview him about this project and his career in general.
		It's a famous place in Paris as far as I know, also Serafino's idea.
	www.metal-rules.com /zine/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=464&Itemid= (1286 words)

	Haviland Limoges China Place Vendome - Haviland Limoges China
		Haviland China PLACE VENDOME Large Rim Soup Plate 9 1/2
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		Haviland China PLACE VENDOME Oblong Cake Platter 15.4
	www.crayonsoup.net /placevendome.html (254 words)

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