Renaming of the Place Royale to Place des Vosges

The square originally known as the Place Royale was briefly renamed Place de la Fabrication-des-Armes, a name referring to the place where weapons are produced. It was then formally renamed Place des Vosges, in honor of the département of Vosges, which was the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the Revolutionary army. The renaming thus commemorated the department's fiscal contribution rather than any event at the square itself. The supplied source dates the formal renaming to 1800, while the legacy discovery hint gives 1 January 1799; because no supplied passage corroborates either date, the conflict is kept explicit and the date is recorded as disputed.