The Place Royale (French pronunciation:[plasʁwajal], meaning "Royal Square") is a square in Reims, France. A bronze statue of King Louis XV stands in its center, commissioned by the city from the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle and inaugurated on 26 August 1765, depicting "the sovereign in Roman garb, with laurels on his head and one hand extended 'to take the people under his protection.'"
Monument to King Louis XV
^Merrick, Jeffrey (2007). "Politics on Pedestals: Royal Monuments in Eighteenth-Century France". Order and Disorder under the Ancien Régime. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 57. ISBN1-84718-140-6.
