Place de la Concorde

Place Louis XV

Place de la Révolution

Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French architect, 1698-1782)

Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (French architect, 1792-1867)

Paris, Île-de-France, France

8th arrondissement

Rue de Rivoli and Champs-Elysees

51.186667

France

1755-ca. 1775 (creation)

1829-1854 (alteration)

18th century

elevation detail of one of the court buildings, elevations

The commission for the Place Louis XV was awarded to the Premier Architecte, Anges-Jacques Gabriel. A preliminary design was approved in 1755

the definitive plan in 1757. Construction of the Place Louis XV continued until the 1770s. Under the direction of Nicolas-Marie Potain, Gabriel's scheme transformed the muddy Esplanade into a knuckle that reinforced the great east"“west axis of the Louvre and the Champs-Elysees, subsequently extended to Neuilly, and linked it with the peripheral boulevards, the Cours de la Reine and, via a bridge built by Perronet in 1786, the Left Bank . The Place Louis XV acted as a catalyst for residential development along the north side of the Champs-Elysees. The Comte de Rambuteau levelled and widened the line of boulevards from the Bastille to the re-named Place de la Concorde (ca. 1840), also redesigned by Hittorff (1829-1854).

line drawings (drawings)

Architectural Documentation

squares

open spaces

fountains

water distribution structures

hydraulic structures

elevations

Nineteenth century

French

architecture

cityscape

City planning

Street lighting

Gromort, Georges. Choix d’elements empruntes a l’architecture classique et donnant des exemples connus de l’ap. Paris: A. Vincent, 1920, 64.

Public Domain

Gabriel, Ange-Jacques

Hittorff, Jacques-Ignace