page_title: Place des Victoires
section_title: Mansart's conception
hierarchical_section_title: Place des Victoires / History / Mansart's conception
caption_attribution_description: Statue Louis XIV place des Victoires
context_page_description: The Place des Victoires is a circular place in Paris, located a short distance northeast from the Palais Royal and straddling the border between the 1st and the 2nd arrondissements. The Place des Victoires is at the confluence of six streets: Rue de la Feuillade, Rue Vide Gousset, Rue d'Aboukir, Rue Étienne Marcel, Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, and Rue Catinat.
context_section_description: Mansart's design, of 1685, articulated the square's unified façades according to a formula utilised in some Parisian hôtels particuliers,  (palatial private homes). Mansart chose colossal pilasters linking two floors, standing on a high arcaded base with rustication of the pilasters; the façades were capped with sloping slate "mansard roofs", punctuated by dormer windows. However, because the building work was incomplete at the time of the unveiling of the monument, the envisioned façades were painted on canvas. By 1692, the Place des Victoires was pierced by six streets, and the circular plan functioned as a flexible joint to harmonize their various axes.
caption: Roman Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV in the center of the Place des Victoires.
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