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Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center ( there were no garden plots until 1680 ).

The original was melted down in the Revolution ; the present version, begun in 1818 by Louis Dupaty and completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot, replaced it in 1825.

The square was renamed in 1799 when the département of the Vosges became the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the Revolutionary army.

The Restoration returned the old royal name, but the short-lived Second Republic restored the revolutionary one in 1848.