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Entertainment
59
Kiosque Théâtre Montparnasse
B5
E1
G3
Shopping
B3
63
Pierre Hermé
C3
D3
PLACE VENDÔME
City Square
( Tuileries or Opéra)
Octagonal place Vendôme and the arcaded and colonnaded
buildings around it were constructed between 1687 and 1721. In March 1796 Napo-
leon married Josephine, Viscountess Beauharnais, in the building at No 3. Today,
the buildings surrounding the square house the posh Hôtel Ritz Paris and some of
the city's most fashionable boutiques. The 43.5m-tall
Colonne Vendôme
(Vendôme Column) in the centre of the square consists of a stone core wrapped in
a 160m-long bronze spiral made from hundreds of Austrian and Russian cannons
captured by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. The statue on top depicts
Napoleon in classical Roman dress.
ÉGLISE ST-EUSTACHE
Church
(
www.st-eustache.org
, in French; 2 impasse St-Eustache, 1er; 9.30am-7pm Mon-
Fri, 10am-7pm Sat, 9am-7.15pm Sun; Les Halles)
One of the most beautiful
churches in Paris and consecrated to an early Roman martyr who is the patron
saint of hunters, this majestic church is just north of the gardens above the Forum
des Halles.
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