Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 17' E
| Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Chaillot |
| Junctions | Avenue du Président Wilson Avenue Kléber Avenue Raymond Poincaré Avenue d'Eylau Avenue Georges Mandel Avenue Paul Doumer |
| morphology | |
| diameter | 164 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1869 |
| designation | 1978 |
| Original names | Place du Trocadéro (1877–1978) Place du Roi-de-Rome |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 9442 |
The Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre is a square in the 16th arrondissement of Paris . The square is popularly known as the Place du Trocadéro .
location
The inside of the square is surrounded by a row of trees and consists of a small green area. Most of the outer ring of the square is also covered with trees, as is most of the streets that lead out from the square.
At the southern base of the square is a bronze equestrian statue of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), which points to the Parvis des droits de l'homme (formerly Esplanade du Trocadéro ).
To the west of the square, between Avenue Paul Doumer and Avenue Georges-Mandel, lies the Cimetière de Passy cemetery , where a large number of famous people lie.
An inscription in one of the marble slabs of the square reminds us that a gathering of 100,000 people on the square on October 17, 1987, initiated by Joseph Wresinski , was the origin of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty .
The square is a popular tourist attraction because of its view of the Eiffel Tower from the esplanade.
Six streets start from the square:
- Avenue Paul Doumer
- Avenue Georges-Almond
- Avenue d'Eylau
- Avenue Raymond Poincare
- Avenue Kléber ; it forms the direct connection with the Place Charles-de-Gaulle
- Avenue du President Wilson
To the southeast, the esplanade leads between the wings of the Palais de Chaillot for pedestrians to the Jardins du Trocadéro and further down to the Seine .
The square can be reached by metro and via the Trocadéro station .
Name origin
This square was named in memory of the battle of August 31, 1823 , when a French expeditionary force wrested the Trocadero fortress, which was defending the port of Cádiz in Spain, from the hands of the liberal Spanish revolutionaries and restored the authority of the monarch Ferdinand VII .
The addition du – 11 – Novembre corresponds to the armistice of November 11, 1918 , with which the fighting of the First World War ended.
history
The square is located in the upper part of the former estate of the monastery of the Visitandines de Chaillot (formerly the park and castle of Chaillot ), whose land was sold as a national property in the 1790s by the state for the abandoned project of the king's palace in the years 1811–1813 had been acquired by Rome, as well as on the site of the wall removed in 1860 of the general tenants at the former lock of Sainte-Marie .
In 1826 the area was used to re-enact the conquest of Trocadero for King Charles X : the hill of Chaillot represents the fortress of Trocadero and was to be conquered from the Champ de Mars , from which the French troops set out (on A cardboard fortress was built on the hill).
There were several proposals to design the hill in the following years: in 1824 an obelisk dominating a fountain, surrounded by a quarter of Italian-style houses, the Villa Trocadero, designed by the architect Antoine-Marie Peyre ; 1841 a mausoleum on Napoleon's grave by Antoine Étex and a monumental Napoleon statue by Hector Moreau; 1848 a people's palace; In 1856 a triumphal arch designed by Gabriel Davioud .
- Two suggestions for shaping the Trocadero hill
Palais du Roi de Rome
Villa du Trocadero
The square was first laid out together with the old Palais du Trocadéro as a belvedere with a view of the Champ de Mars for the World Exhibition in 1867. It was then given its name «Place du Trocadéro» in 1877.
- Plans to develop the square and gardens
Trocadéro on the plan of Verniquet (1790)
Trocadéro, 1860
Place du Trocadéro from 1869 to 1878
Trocadéro, 1882
By resolution of the city council on October 18, 1978, the square was renamed Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre .
Place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre
View from the Eiffel Tower over the square
Meeting point "Trocadéro"
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The place in the film
- In the film Les Yeux sans visage (from 1960: German eyes without a face ) by Georges Franju , one of the girls meets Edna Grüberg in a café on the edge of the square.
- Several scenes from Philippe de Broca's adventure film Adventure in Rio (1964) were shot on the square.
- The first part of the music video to the song by Philippe Katerine on his album Magnum of 2014 was recorded on and around the square.
literature
- Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris , Vol. 2, Éditions de Minuit , 1985, ISBN 2707310549 , p. 574
Web links
- Views of the Trocadero Gardens with links to historical images and the statues in the gardens
- Detailed description and panorama (French)
- Virtually controllable panorama view (requires Java plugin)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maxime Coppeland, Le 16e, Chaillot, Passy, Auteuil. Métamorphose des trois villages , Délégation à l'action artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1991, 284 pp., ISBN 2 905118 39 3 , p. 112