Place de la Republique, Paris, France
The Place de la République is a square in Paris located on the border between the IIIe Xe and XIe arrondissements It is named after the First Second and Third French Republics It corresponds to the bastion of the gate of the Temple onto the enceinte de Charles V that dates back to the 14th century Decorated in 1811 with a fountain called the Château d Eau designed by Girard it took its current shape under the Second French Empire when boulevard de Magenta was extended onto it of which the boulevard des Amandiers which became avenue de la République and of the boulevard du Prince Eugène today named after Voltaire Most of the theatres of boulevard du Temple were demolished for this project The caserne de Prince Eugène later named de la Château d Eau then the caserne Vérines was erected by Degrove in 1854 to replace the former Wauxhall of summer and the famous diorama where Daguerre one of the inventors of the photograph had given his fifteen minute demonstrations Built with the foresight to house 3200 men it has since 1947 housed the French Republican Guard Gabriel Davioud Paris s official city architect added to the Place building the Magasins réunis along its whole north side in 1866 and a second fountain decorated with bronze lions Girard s fountain having been judged insufficient and re erected in the market of la Villette in 1867 In 1879 a competition to design a great monument devoted to the newly proclaimed Republic was won by the Morice brothers Léopold for the sculptor and Charles for the base The plaques of historic scenes around the statue s base are by Aimé Jules Dalou Two inauguration ceremonies took place the first on July 14 1880 with the gypsum model and the second on July 14 1883 with the final version in bronze Digitally restored Art Photochrom or Photochrome is used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative using between four and fourteen lithograph stones made from rocklike subst
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