# Place Vendôme

Paris, France

An octagonal royal square designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart under Louis XIV, now the world capital of high jewelry. At its center rises the Vendôme Column, cast from cannons captured by Napoleon at Austerlitz in 1805.

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Coordinates: 48.8675, 2.32944

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