place

Place des Pyramides

Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of ParisSquares in Paris
Paris 75001 Place des Pyramides Hôtel Regina facade
Paris 75001 Place des Pyramides Hôtel Regina facade

Place des Pyramides is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located in the middle of the Rue de Rivoli, at its intersection with the Rue des Pyramides and Avenue du General Lemonnier, at the eastern end of the Tuileries Garden. The square was named for the street, Rue des Pyramides, and the street was named for the Battle of the Pyramids, a Napoleonic victory achieved in Egypt in 1798.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Place des Pyramides (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Place des Pyramides
Place des Pyramides, Paris 1st Arrondissement (Paris)

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Place des PyramidesContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 48.863875 ° E 2.3321361111111 °
placeShow on map

Address

Jeanne d'Arc

Place des Pyramides
75001 Paris, 1st Arrondissement (Paris)
Ile-de-France, France
mapOpen on Google Maps

Paris 75001 Place des Pyramides Hôtel Regina facade
Paris 75001 Place des Pyramides Hôtel Regina facade
Share experience

Nearby Places

Insurrection of 10 August 1792
Insurrection of 10 August 1792

The insurrection of 10 August 1792 was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The conflict led France to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic. Conflict between King Louis XVI and the country's new revolutionary Legislative Assembly increased through the spring and summer of 1792 as Louis vetoed radical measures voted upon by the Assembly. Tensions accelerated dramatically on 1 August when news reached Paris that the commander of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies had issued the Brunswick Manifesto, threatening "unforgettable vengeance" on Paris should harm be done to the French royal family. On 10 August, the National Guard of the Paris Commune and fédérés from Marseille and Brittany stormed the King's residence in the Tuileries Palace in Paris, which was defended by the Swiss Guards. Hundreds of Swiss guardsmen and 400 revolutionaries were killed in the battle, and Louis and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly. The formal end of the monarchy occurred six weeks later on 21 September as one of the first acts of the new National Convention, which established a republic on the next day. The insurrection and its outcomes are most commonly referred to by historians of the Revolution simply as "the 10 August"; other common designations include "the day of the 10 August" (French: journée du 10 août) or "the Second Revolution".