ABSTRACT
Place Vendôme, with its extended octagonal geometry and axial order, is considered a quintessential French Baroque urban space and “represents the epitome of the closed square and, moreover, generally the most conscious space creation of the French classicist baroque” (Zucker 1966: 176). Following in the same tradition of Parisian urban spaces, Place Vendôme was part of a larger investment in the urban fabric sponsored in cooperation between the crown and private investors. As such, it was a distinctly Parisian approach in which the individual acceded to civic space.
