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Title: Paris past & present
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Haynie, Henry
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Description and travel Paris (France) -- History
Publisher: New York : F. A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd he was the Duke de Bourgogne,grandson of the King and pupil of the illustri-ous Fenelon. The old convent with other houses were torndown, and the f agades as they exist to-day wereconstructed. The place is an equilateral squarewith the corners cut off and whose sides arefour hundred and thirty-six feet long, all thehouses being uniform in their architecture. Under the Regency, the Hotel Quinquam-poix having become too small to hold all thespeculators whom Mississippi Law wasdriving mad, stock gambling was transfeiTedto the Place Vendome, into the very presenceof the King, and under the windows of theMinister of Justice. The revolution havingcome on, the bronze king on a bronze horse wasoverthrown, and the square was renamed. Placedes Piques; but habit preserved its old nameof Vendome. After the campaign of 1806, Napoleon I con-ceived the project of erecting a column to theglory of his army in the Place. That monu-ment, finished in 1810, was cast out of the PLACE AND COLUMX VEXd65IE
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THE COLUMN VENDOME. 253 bronze of 1200 cannons captured from Russiansand Austrians, and it was intended to be adurable monument of success and glory, raisedrather to the honovir of a great nation than tothat of a single man. It was one hundred andforty-eight feet high, and was built of cutstone covered over with four hundred andtwenty-five bronze plates, representing in a con-tinual spiral the memorable events of Napoleonscampaigns. One hundred and seventy stepsinside the column led up to where, at the top,the Emperor stood, dressed in imperial robes,with a crown on his head and holding a scep-tre. Guy de Maupassant has left on record anagreeable anecdote of this column. Bonaparte,then only a major in the French artillery, hadbeen dining at the house of Greneral dAnger-ville, brother-in-law to Berthier, and, withMadame Talien leaning on his arm, was walk-ing through the Place des Piques. Berthierand dAngerville, who lived in one of thehouses surrounding the square, were also of thepar

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