Square Louis XVI
The Square Louis XVI is a leafy square ( Square ) in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . The green area is named after the French King Louis XVI. named, who had his first resting place in a cemetery previously located here. In the square the atonement chapel Chapelle expiatoire who was executed at the King and Queen of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette remembered.
description
The 4,184 m² square green space is located in the center of Paris in the 8th arrondissement. It is bounded to the east by Rue Pasquier, to the south by Rue des Mathurins, to the west by Rue d'Anjou and to the north by Boulevard Haussmann . Despite the small size of the place, there are a number of different tree and shrub species. These include yew , chestnut , sycamore trees , sycamore maple , Japanese flowering cherry and lilac , orange blossom , viburnum , black elder , laurel , Philadelphus , deutzia , Prunus , hawthorn and laburnum . There are also small lawns and seasonal flowers. The park's equipment includes a number of park benches, a drinking fountain and a small playground. The fenced-in facility is only accessible during the day.
history
The cemetery of the old Madeleine Church (Cimetière de la Madeleine) was located on the site of today's Square Louis XVI until the end of the 18th century . During the French Revolution , after their execution on the Place de la Révolution (today Place de la Concorde ) a few 100 meters away, numerous people were taken to the Madeleine cemetery and buried there in mass graves. A notice board at the entrance to Square Louis XVI gives an overview of the famous people buried here. Among them were Charlotte Corday , Madame Roland , the Comtesse du Barry and the former royal couple Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette.
The Madeleine cemetery was closed in 1796 and the property was sold to the carpenter Isaac Jacot. After he got into financial difficulties in 1802, the property came into the possession of the loyal lawyer Pierre-Louis Olivier Desclozeaux at auction. He lived in the neighboring Rue d'Anjou no. 48 and had followed the burials of the royal couple and marked the king's grave site with two weeping willows and a cypress tree. After the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte , Louis XVIII. , Brother of the executed king, the body of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette exhumed in 1815 and then transferred to the Cathedral of Saint-Denis , where they found their final tomb. After Desclozeaux's death in 1816, Louis XVIII. the former Madeleine cemetery and in the following years left over the original grave of Louis XVI. to build the expiatory chapel Chapelle expiatoire . The inauguration took place in 1826. The construction of the Square Louis XVI did not take place until 1865, as part of the urban redevelopment measures by Baron Haussmann . The area around the Chapelle expiatoire was transformed into a park-like square and dedicated to the former king. After Louis XVI. was previously named the Place de la Concorde in Paris, which was named Place Louis XVI from 1824 to 1830 .
literature
- Gudrun Gersmann: France 1815–1830: Trauma or Utopia? The Society of Restoration and the Legacy of the Revolution. Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-05831-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the planting, see the website http://equipement.paris.fr
- ↑ For exact opening times, see http://equipement.paris.fr/square-louis-xvi-2479#local-calendar
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '1.7 " N , 2 ° 18" 38.4 " E