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Showing posts with label Place des Vosges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Place des Vosges. Show all posts
Keys from the Bastille
I love, love, love the Marais, it is one of my favorite places to roam about. A great place there is the Musee Carnavalet. I always enjoy seeing the diverse items they have on display there and always great exhibitions. Here are some highlights. With all of the amazing museums packed into the city it's easy to overlook this one. Of course you go to the Louvre, the D'Orsay, etc. but this is a very nice way to spend the afternoon as well.
The Carnavalet Museum, is dedicated to the history of Paris, it is located near the Place de Vosges. The museum is built around two adjoining mansions: the sixteenth-century hôtel Carnavalet and the seventeenth-century hôtel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau. It contains over one-hundred rooms.
Pieces of old Paris walls ~ I love this
By MuchaThe Hôtel Carnavalet, after which the museum is named, was once the home of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote a series of famous letters to her daughter. It now hosts the museum’s collections from pre-historical times to the reign of Louis XVI, while the Hôtel Le Peletier Saint-Fargeau contains pieces dating from the French Revolution to the present day.
Re~creation of a Paris BallroomCould you just imagine all of us dressing up in our ball gowns, opera length gloves, diamonds and pearls, top hats, and tails! Oh to dream!
Some particularly interesting exhibits are:
Madame de Sévigné's Gallery;
The 20th century, Ballroom of the Hôtel de Wendel;
The Charles Le Brun Ceiling;
The Hotel d'Uzès Reception Room;
An ancient recipe for frog-leg soup, and;
Robespierre's final Letter
I just love this painting and this photoAlso there, a letter the little Dauphin was forced to write while being held captive (poor little thing), Marie Antoinette's shoes (which I posted in my last post). Also must sees are the salons and rooms of grand hotels that have long since disappeared. They are reproduced in every detail, the 19th century writer Marcel Proust's bedroom, a military tavern and a salon from the famous Cafe de Paris.
The museum is just as beautiful outside as it is insideThe famous painting of the doomed Queen Marie-Antoinette by A. Kucharski is also there, as are toys her children played with while in prison, as is some of the families furniture from the Tuileries that they used while being held there. However, just to see the buildings and petite garden are enough to entice a visit from me! I just love seeing how people lived before and to be in that environment, in a historical home (and such a grand one), it's pure heaven to me.
Have a wonderful night my friends, until tomorrow!
~Judith~
Ok, so here's another option for us. It's a little on the dowdy side but I think we can rough it & manage!!! Seriously, this is a beautiful apartment overlooking the Place des Vosges. I snuck in a lot of photos on this post, sorry, I just couldn't edit any out. they are all so pretty. Enjoy!
The view from our palace!
This bedroom is my favorite, I think, oh I can't decide!!!
Every Paris Dwelling needs a towel warmer!
I have a feeling you guys will be fighting over this bedroom! We can take turns!
ADDRESS23 Place des Vosges, 3rd Arrondissement
BEDROOMS
3 bedrooms all with Yves Delorme Egyptian cotton sheets and towels.- Master- King Bed with ensuite bathroom- Second – Queen Bed with shower - Third- 2 Single beds. Renovation Completed in July 08. Two large grand salons, one formal faces Place des Vosges, other onto a courtyard
3 bedrooms all with Yves Delorme Egyptian cotton sheets and towels.- Master- King Bed with ensuite bathroom- Second – Queen Bed with shower - Third- 2 Single beds. Renovation Completed in July 08. Two large grand salons, one formal faces Place des Vosges, other onto a courtyard
In the arches of the glorious Place des Vosges, Paris’ oldest square dates back to 1612. Upscale boutiques and restauarants cluster under the arches. Walking distance to Picasso Museum, Carnavelt, Latin Quarter and St.Germain des Pres across the Seine. Classified historical building for this Paris apartment, on 2nd floor with elevator. Amazing view of Place des Vosges from the main grand salon and master bedroom suite. Very quiet and private due to double glazed windows. The kitchen and other bedroom face onto the courtyard.
True Chef inspired kitchen, fully equipped with designer appliances, La Canche Piano stove, Kitchen Aid, La Creuset, microwave, Miele appliances, wine cellar. There is a table with six chairs. Small laundry area.
Bisou Mon Amis!
Bonjour All!!! Thank you so much for your warm and generous holiday wishes! I hope everybody had a beautiful and delicious holiday! I did, I love spending time with my family, there really is nothing else like it! Well, I'm back from my mini vacation with the hubby & I have to say I feel like I was in a Chevy Chase movie for the last few days! It was a a terrible trip but I'm already laughing at all of our mishaps! Oh well, it is never bad to spend time with your loved one! It is true...there is no place like home (well, maybe Paris)!
I just love taking as stroll through the Place des Vosges! I really think it is just grand! It's one of my favorite haunts in Paris. Here's why... 
The Place des Vosges is Paris' oldest square and it is breathtaking. Built from 1605 to 1612 by Henri IV. It was originally known as the Place Royale. A true square, it embodied the first European program of royal city planning. It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens. At a tournament at the Tournelles, the royal residence, Henri II was wounded in a jousting tournament and died. Catherine de Medicis was devastated and had the Gothic pile demolished in her grief she then moved to the Louvre.
What was new about the Place Royale in 1612 was that the housefronts were all built to the same design of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. Within a mere five-year period the king oversaw an unmatched building scheme for the ravaged medieval city: additions to the Louvre, the Pont Neuf, and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares.
It was originally known as Place Royale. This changed after the French Revolution when the region of Vosges in the northeast of France on the border of Luxembourg and Germany was the first to pay taxes to the new French government. To honor them, the most beautiful square in Paris was named after this region.
A stroll through Le Marais without visiting Place des Vosges would be like going to the Champs Elysées without seeing the Arc de Triomphe! The Place des Vosges has two major houses. In the middle of the north side is the Queen Pavillon, dedicated to the former queen of France. On the south side is the King Pavillon, Le Pavillon du Roi. These houses are not open to visitors. You can, however, visit the home of Victor Hugo, the famous author of “Les Miserables.”
The home of Victor HugoOn the southwest corner of the square, a secret door open only during the day, allows entry to the fantastic Hotel de Sully Gardens. A must if you are there. Cross through another passage and you’ll find a courtyard with enchanting statues representing the four seasons. If you keep heading south you’ll come to rue Saint Antoine, an extension of rue de Rivoli. Make a left and you’re on your way to Place de la Bastille. You may notice some white marks on the ground – these show where the infamous Bastille prison once stood. Remarkable!!!
Of course my favorite part about this famous square is of course, the history it encases within its' walls. The houses are incredible and the only thing more incredible than their beauty are the former residents that inhabited them!
No. 1bis ~Mme de Sevigné was born here No. 6 ~Victor Hugo from 1832 - 1848, in what was then the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée, now a Ville de Paris-managed museum devoted to his memory (and it is free to go in)!
No. 7~ Sully, Henri IV's great minister
No. 8~ poet Théophile Gautier and writer Alphonse Daudet
No. 9 ~(Hôtel de Chaulnes) the Academy of Architecture
No. 11~ occupied from 1639-1648 by the famous courtesan Marion Delorme (what I wouldn't give to see her home in it's hayday!)
No. 14 ~(Hôtel de la Rivière). Its ceilings painted by Lebrun are reinstalled in the Musée Carnavalet
No. 17 ~former residence of Bossuet
No. 21~ Cardinal Richelieu from 1615 - 1627
Photos via Flickr
I say we all meet up here for an espresso and some girl talk! Could you think of a better place to meet!?!Bisou Mon Amis!
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