(The octagonal shape of the square is thought to have been modelled on the Place Vendôme in Paris).
Place Vendôme, a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France
He lived out his exile in the Place Vendôme, where he sired some seven illegitimate children, most of whom adopted the surname 'Montgomery' (as other natural children of the Herbert family had done) or ‘de Pembroke de Montgomery’.
In Napoleon's time, a similar column decorated with a spiral of relief sculpture was erected in the Place Vendôme in Paris to commemorate his victory at Austerlitz.
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee | Melrose Place | hamlet (place) | Peyton Place | Vendôme | Peyton Place (TV series) | Wizards of Waverly Place | Place Vendôme | Hamlet (place) | Return to Peyton Place | The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed | Place des Arts | Place de la Concorde | Penshurst Place | Louis, Duke of Vendôme | Liberty Place | Rexall Place | Portland Place | Ontario Place | Exhibition Place | Waterfront Place, Brisbane | Waterfront Place | The Trojan War Will Not Take Place | Polling place | Place des Vosges | Place de l'Etoile | Pike Place Market | Peyton Place (film) | Park Place | Melrose Place (1992 TV series) |
It was through his gallery that he organized exhibitions of the Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming at the Singapore Art Museum in 1986 and Place Vendôme in Paris in 1997.
The collection includes Ode à la Colonne de la Place Vendôme, a response to the Austrian ambassador's decision in early 1827 to stop recognizing Napoleonic titles.
After spending 26 months in the Air Force near Bourges, where he was deployed as a cartographer, he returned to Paris and introduced himself to the great jewellers in the Rue de la Paix and Place Vendôme.
Conversely, the Republic of Texas embassy in Paris was located in what is now the Hôtel de Vendôme, adjacent to the Place Vendôme in Paris' 2e arrondissement.
In addition, he designed the headquarters for the Rolls-Royce Limited, a Parisian store for the Duveen brothers (1907–1908) in the form of a Petit Trianon at the rear of a marble courtyard at n° 20 place Vendôme which is now a bank headquarters, and the Duveen Gallery, a large building in the style of Ange-Jacques Gabriel at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th street in New York City (1909–1910, demolished 1953).