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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Paris From the Classical Period Until the Revolution History of City of Paris

Francois I give new life to the Louvre after destroying the large clocks. He changed its orientation by moving from south to east. Then the banks of the river was built. He ordered the repair of City Hall began on July 15, 1533. But the main work of the New seledai 75 years later. These major works were destroyed engulfed in flames "Commune" in 1871. Later this building was converted into a church of Saint-Eustache.
Paris under the reign of Henri IV

"Henri IV" decided to make the city of Paris as the city where he lives. Is it because he found it hard at conquering Paris in 1594 after a sustained retained for five years? Therefore he decided to hand over Paris.

Because living in a time shorter than his predecessors he completed construction of several important architectural projects. Then he conferred on him an honorary degree Governor of Paris. He began to repair the Place Royale became the Place de Vosges. Developmental aspects of the Italian Renaissance residence associated with the King. In 1610 Paris did not grow beyond the City Hall in the district of V in the South, "Porte Saint-Denis" in the north, the "Temple" in the Northwest, and the "Porte de la Conference" in the West.


Place des Vosges

In the North is the city where King held tinggaldi "Louvre" and also the power of the King while domiciled in the "Temple" in the "Bastille", a fortress and at 1 '"Arsenal" a penjarajuga for employees who live around the "Place Royale" a new, to do business, to crafts, to port the spread of the Quay "St-Paul" to "Place des Greves". In the South lies "Université" filled with the university and monastery.

Outside the surrounding wall is part of the rim as "faubourg Saint-Germain" by the churches, tmpat brmain and night markets, "faubourg Saint-Jacques" with the convent-monastery, "faubourg Saint-Marcel" crowded. In the North, around the town, located "faubourg Saint-Honoré", "Montmartre", "Saint-Denis", "faubourg du Temple", "faubourg Saint-Antoine" extraordinary. Then located in rural areas, rural areas are flat, and the hills hutan.Di "Chaillot" 's and "Roule"' s we can menhirup fresh air. We can admire the view from the highlands of "Belleville", or "Ménilmontant". The grass is cut from the fields "Grenelle". We can harvest the grapes in the "Montmartre".

Paris to the countryside is wide open and no one was imprisoned in it.

Paris is the city round, closed city with walls as high as four meters and two meters wide with the river in the middle as well as hundreds of church steeples.

There are also five hundred acres of road scattered in random order, five hundred hectares with buildings, palaces, churches and monasteries, open market serra harbor with boats increasing in number, charged items. That's the face of Paris the day after King was killed.

Paris under Louis XIII

Louis XIII had no taste for architecture and almost no buildings, certain individuals give gagsannya him. Paris under Louis XIII grew three times that of the original measure is, in the history of Paris this rarely happens.

The new monuments are "L'Académie française", "La Poste" and le "Jardin des Plantes". "Pont Notre-Dame" was built by Christophe Marie, who specializes in building jembatan.Pada in 1659, Louix XIII decided to build the "Pavillon de l'Horloge" and asks "Lemercier" and "Le Vau" to lead the development; more buildings are added the rows of the pavilion.

Paris under Louis XIV
Under Louis XIV diperluasdan city continues to grow. Louis XIV decided to expand the Louvre and asking "Le Vau" to expand to four times the surface of the Square Yard. "Le Notre", which expands the park "Tuileries". Years during which King lived in Paris the main modifications carried out on the town. "Colbert", a building supervisor hopes to make the new Roman city of Paris.

He wants it to attract the attention of the King in his city and also to connect the name of Paris with a population on the monarchy.

"Hôtel des Invalides", which was built after the General Hospital ("La Salpêtrière") must accommodate the victims of war. To honor the king two squares were built. Urbanism sycophantic found in "Place des Victoires" (1689) and deen "Place Vendôme" (1698) which are both built on the initiative of "Marechal de la Feuillade" and "Louvois".

Despite all this development, it was King Louis XIV preferred to live at Versailles.
Paris under Louis XV

The reign of Louis XV brought an update on the landscape of Paris. "Ecole Militaire" (1773) was built by Jacques Ange Gabriel. "Hôtel des Monnaies" (1768) shows the so-called style of "Louis XVI".

Development "Panthéon" (Church of Sainte-Geneviève old) lasted for half half half of the seventeenth century. More than 30 years lie between the depiction Soufflot (1757) and results of development before the Revolution.

Many remarkable events in the capital. Police rules bertitimangsa July 30, 1729 has finally announced the names of the streets. Indeed, until the 18th century AD, the streets were named official.
Paris under the reign of Louis XVI

Many were made by Louis XVI to the city | Paris. Projects and improvements to the railway network in Paris to explore new paths as a replacement to the country that have been taken from the Catholic Church and of the imigrant.

In Paris the fashion graveyard. However, the medieval architecture is not completely rejected. In 1815, Paris remains a medieval city. Until the XIV century, the old town still retains the layout pertengahan.Seni Century Gothic style is still preferred. The Church of Sainte-Merri Church or Saint-Jacques tower was built between 1508 and 1522, which is not expressed Ghotik style.

To slow the growth of population in Paris and after trying so hard, since 1783, following the royal command, the streets listed on a plan while the speculators are eager to open up new territory. They had to wait another hundred years sebelummenyaksikan major urbanization projects which appeared in Paris.

The main project is the construction of Paris' Sainte-Geneviere "which begins oeleh" Soufflot "with its Greek cross of the dome. Later this was changed to a "Pantheon" real.