Place Vendôme
Octagonal royal square ringed by luxury jewelers, centered on a bronze victory column cast from Napoleon's captured cannons.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Place Vendôme in Paris takes you to late afternoon on May 16, 1871, when twenty thousand people packed this square and its windows while a band played the Marseillaise. It follows the painter Gustave Courbet, the revolutionaries running the city, and the bronze column at the center of it all. Along the way you'll stop at number twelve, where a composer spent his last days. Best heard standing near the column.
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