Place de la Nation
| Place de la Nation | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 11th 12th |
| quarter | Sainte-Marguerite Picpus |
| Junctions | Avenue du Trône Avenue du Bel-Air Rue Fabre-d'Églantine Rue Jaucourt Avenue Dorian Boulevard Diderot Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine Boulevard Voltaire Avenue Philippe-Auguste Rue de Tunis Avenue de Bouvines Avenue de Taillebourg |
| morphology | |
| diameter | 252 m |
| surface | approx. 50,000 m² |
| history | |
| Emergence | Mentioned on Delagrive's plan (1728) |
| designation | July 2, 1880 |
| Original names | Place du Trône Place du Trône-Renversé (during the Revolution) |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 6625 |
The Place de la Nation is a square in the east of Paris on the border between the 11th and 12th arrondissement and the 44th Quartier Sainte-Marguerite and the 46th Quartier de Picpus . It is one of the largest and most important transport hubs in the city.
location
The Place de la Nation is a roundabout with an outer and an inner ring, in the middle of which there is an island with flower beds and a bronze sculpture. The inner and outer ring are separated by a green strip with trees.
The avenue du Trône, the avenue du Bel-Air, the rue Fabre-d'Églantine, the rue Jaucourt, the avenue Dorian, the boulevard Diderot, the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, which connect the square with the Place de la Bastille connects Boulevard Voltaire, Avenue Philippe-Auguste, Rue de Tunis, Avenue de Bouvines and Avenue de Taillebourg.
Transport links
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Metro on the station nation , , and
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Gare de Nation RER
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RATP 26, 56, 57, 71, 86, 215, 351 and Noctilien N11
Original names
The square got its name on the occasion of the national holiday on July 14, 1880, from which the motto freedom, equality, fraternity ( French: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ) was displayed on all public buildings .
history
The place was once on the wall of the general tenants . On July 26, 1660, on the occasion of the solemn entry of the royal couple Louis XIV and Maria Teresa of Spain , who were on their return journey from Saint-Jean-de-Luz , where they had married, they were placed in the former open space of the village of Picpus Paris a throne. The square was named Place du Trône . After the French Revolution , the square was renamed. In 1784 two columns with the statues of Philip II and Louis IX were erected at the western side gate of the wall of the general tenants . that the architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux had planned. You are on Avenue du Trône today. In 1794, a guillotine was erected on the square and numerous personalities were executed, including Cécile Renault and sixteen Carmelites .
In 1841 the city council considered whether the Parisian landmark " Elephant of the Bastille " should be erected here, but in 1843 the decision was made differently. On July 14, 1880, the square got its current name. A year earlier, Jules Dalou had already been commissioned to create the monumental sculpture Le Triomphe de la République (German: The Triumph of the Republic) for the center of the square. It was inaugurated in plaster of paris in 1889 on the occasion of the centenary of the revolution and ten years later it was re-opened to the public as a bronze statue. A fountain surrounded the statue until the 1960s. Today the bronze sculpture stands on a green verge.
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Individual notes
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 2 ° 24' E