Let's look at the beginnings of its history. The city has a great antiquity. The founding of Burdigalia occurred in the year III BC. C. Crassus who was Caesar's lieutenant conquered Aquitaine in the year BC and consequently Bordeaux. In the year it was sacked by the Vandals and sacked again by the same Vandals in the year by the Visigoths in the year and by the Franks in the year . The Visigoths settled in the city in the year . Charlemagne creates the kingdom of Aquitaine with its capital in Bordeaux.
The city is sacked by Abd al-Rahman in the year after the defeat of the CXB Directory Duke of Eudes of Aquitaine. However the Muslims were defeated by Charles Martel in the Battle of Poitiers that same year. Under the rule of the Carolingians counts of Bordeaux were appointed with the purpose of defending the city of the Garonne from the attacks of the Vikings.
The Place de la Bourse
It was built under the administration of Claude Boucher according to the design of the royal architect Ange Jacques Gabriel between the years and . The square represents a break with medieval Bordeaux surrounded by walls for centuries.
The Place de la Bourse was the first breach opened in the medieval walls and was intended to serve as a sumptuous setting for the equestrian statue of King Louis XV which was destroyed in the French Revolution.
Inaugurated in it is a symbol of the city's prosperity. Later called place Royale place de la Liberté during the French Revolution under Napoleon place Impériale under and then place Royale again during the Restoration. After the fall of Louis Philippe I in it became the Place de la Bourse.
Mayor Boucher wanted to open the city towards the Garonne River. He tried to modernize Bordeaux and offer a more welcoming face to the city to foreigners coming from the right bank of the Garonne. He removed part of the walls surrounding Bordeaux and built a Place Royale. During the French Revolution the statue of Louis XV was replaced by a tree of liberty.
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