Article: A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood.(Review)

Article: Cities, squares and courts: the restoration of Place Stanislas in Nancy is the occasion for a splendid exhibition on urban design in Enlightenment Europe.(Exhibitions)
Apollo;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the evolution of the concept of the place royale throughout Europe, although Gady's assertion...the work of Pierre Lavedan, that the place royale was the 'original invention of French...interpretations. In this room, the typology of a place royale was established: the organised, ...

Article: Héré de Corny, Emmanuel
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      261 words ......masterpiece is the sequence of urban spaces in Nancy—the Place Royale (now Place Stanislaus), the promenade or Place de la Carri...Recueil (1753–6) and Plans et élévations de la place royale de Nancy & des autres edifices à l'environment b...

Article: Crucy, Mathurin
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      72 words ......and public spaces, including the Grand Théâtre and Place Graslin (1784–7), Place d'Armes (1786–90), Place Royale (1787), Bourse (1790–1814), and Textile Exchange (1821). His civic designs were conceived on a grand scale, and are...

Article: Gabriel, Jacques-Jules
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      80 words ......tels in Paris (including the Hôtel Peyrenne de Moras—now Musée Rodin), the Place d'Armes in Rennes, and the Place Royale, Bordeaux (from 1728), which is probably one of his finest achievements. Bibliography Hautecœur (1943–57); Tadgell...

Article: Barré, Jean-Benoît-Vincent
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      96 words ......the celebrated Parc de Méréville, and built the Château du Marais, Remarde, south of Paris. He designed the Place Royale, Brussels, Belgium, realized by Gilles-Barnabé Guimard ( c. 1734–92) in the 1770s. Bibliography Saur (1993)

Article: Montreal
Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names;      142 words ......the century Hochelaga, the Huron name for the place, had been abandoned and replaced by a new settlement which was named Place Royale by Samuel de Champlain † . The modern city was founded in 1642 as a religious colony by the French, who called the...

Article: Historia viva en Quebec.
Américas (Spanish Edition);  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Cubierto de encajes y seda, ha estado paseándose y posando durante más de una hora entre la gente que colma la Place Royale de la ciudad de Quebec. <<¿Le importa?>>, dice el rey. Se sonríe mientras raspa un fósforo contra...

Article: If You Only Have A Day In Quebec City.(Quebec)(Brief Article)
Cruise Travel;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......history as well as observe modern life with a walking tour around the city. There may be no better place to start than from Place-Royale, where Champlain built the first dwelling on the site now occupied by Notre-Dames-des-Victoires, one of the oldest churches...

Article: France, Architecture in
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ......masked and turned to advantage. Elegant places royales (royal squares) attracted private building around them (in Paris, the Place Royale, today the Place des Vosges, 1605, and the Place Dauphine, from 1607). Designed with uniform facades framing a statue of...

Article: Quebec
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      379 words ......Bibliography: See M. de la Roche, Quebec, Historic Seaport (1944); W. P. Percival, The Lure of Quebec (rev. ed. 1965); M. Gaumond, Place Royale: Its Houses and Their Occupants (tr. 1971); D. T. Ruddel, Quebec City, Seventeen Sixty-Five to Eighteen Thirty-Two (1988...

Article: Paris
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ......that the imprint of the royal hand began to be seen throughout in the city. Henry IV extended the Louvre, constructed the Place Royale (now Place des Vosges), and completed the Pont-Neuf, the major bridge across the Seine. His widow, Marie de M é dicis...

Article: Parisian promenade. (viaduct refurbishment in Paris, France)
The Architectural Review;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......describes the viaduct as being designed to have open arches faced in brick with stone dressings, in a style of which `the nearby Place Royale (Place des Vosges) offers such an elegant specimen', with the columns of the cast-iron bridges over the cross

Article: Ange Jacques Gabriel
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      642 words ......ensemble from any viewpoint, the result, no doubt, of Gabriel's experience with his father in city planning, notably the Place Royale (now Place de la Bourse) in Bordeaux (1731-1755). Further Reading Although the definitive monograph on Gabriel is in French...