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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > Europe > France > Paris > La Place Vendome
Saint-Honoré Place Vendôme is an area of Paris reknowed for it’s mixture of luxury boutiques and deluxe hotels. The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré is a relatively small street but is home to virtually all of the main fashion houses. It is also the home of several important organisations including – British Embassy, Ministry of the Interior, and the Élysée Palace. The Place Vendome is home to some iconic 5 and 4 star hotels including: The Hôtel Ritz Paris, which is the Ritz, the Park Hyatt Vendome, and the Bristol (now called the Vendôme). The Vendome is also home to some famous institutions including - the Ministry of Justice, also known as the "Chancellerie", located at the Hotel de Bourvallais located at numbers 11 and 13. Right on the other side of the Place, number 14 houses the Paris office of JP Morgan, the investment bank.
The Park Hyatt Vendome Hotel is convenient to everything Paris has to offer. Each of the 188 rooms at this 4-star hotel have all the comforts and conveniences of home. The hotel is ideally located in Central Paris within easy reach of attractions including - Rue du Faubourg St-Honore , The Place Vendome, and The Place de la Concorde.
Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is the starting point of the Rue de la Paix. Its regular architecture by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and pedimented screens canted across the corners give the rectangular Place Vendôme the aspect of an octagon.
The Rue de la Paix, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, though depending somewhat on historic prestige, remains one of the world's most fashionable shopping streets, known above all for its jewellers, headed by the shop opened by Cartier SA in 1898 at 13, rue de la Paix.
The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré is a street in Paris, France. Although relatively nondescript (especially in comparison to the Champs-Elysées), it is cited as being one of the most fashionable streets in the world thanks to the presence of virtually every major global fashion house.
Cartier SA is a famous jeweller and watch manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA. Cartier was founded in Paris in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier. The company is based near the Rue de la Paix, close to the Place Vendôme. Cartier's is now a world famous brand with luxury stores in New York, Beverly Hills, Waikiki, Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai and London.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart (Paris, April 16, 1646 – Marly-le-Roi, France, May 11, 1708) was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV. His works include the Place des Victoires (1684–86) followed by the Place Vendôme (1690).
