Place des Vosges

The Place des Vosges, originally Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France. It was a fashionable and expensive square to live in during the 17th and 18th centuries, and one of the central reasons of the fashionable nature of Le Marais for the Parisian nobility. The square was often the place for the nobility to chat, and served as a meeting place for them. This was so until the Revolution. Today the square is planted with a bosquet of mature lindens set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens.