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Arc de Triomphe
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Paris view from the top of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower
right
Arc de Triomphe at night
Arc de Triomphe day
L'arc de Triomphe from the sky with the west of Paris in background
L'arc de Triomphe seen ElyséesL'arc Champs de Triomphe known
throughout
the world the Arc de Triomphe, is located in Paris at the Place de
l'Etoile, at the west end of the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, 2.2 km from
the Place de la Concorde. Top 50 meters and a width of 45 meters,
managed by the National Monuments [1].
Instead of the Star form a
huge roundabout twelve avenues breakthroughs in the nineteenth century
under the leadership of Baron Haussmann, then prefect of the department
of Seine. These avenues "shine" star around the place, including the
Avenue de la Grande Armée, Avenue de Wagram and, of course,
the Avenue
des Champs-Elysees. Paving stones of different colors draw on the floor
instead of two stars whose peaks reach for one in the middle of
avenues, for among other avenues.
History
Napoleon ordered
the construction of the arc in 1806: his original plan was to be the
starting point for a triumphal avenue crossing including the Louvre and
Place de la Bastille.
Chalgrin The architect in charge of the project was inspired by
antiquity. The foundations demanded two years of construction.
During the first defeat of Napoleon (Campaign Russia in 1812),
construction was stopped, then abandoned under the Restoration, before
being finally resumed and completed between 1832 and 1836, under
Louis-Philippe Ier. The architects Robert Louis-Goust Huyot then took
over in the direction of Héricart Thury.
The Arc de Triomphe was
inaugurated on 29 July 1836 for the sixth anniversary of the Three
Glorious. Initially had been planned a large military presence journal
of Louis-Philippe. But while it has been targeted by a new attack on
June 25, the Council President, Adolphe Thiers, convinced the king to
abstain. The military review is canceled and replaced by a grand
banquet hosted by King to 300 guests, while the monument was
inaugurated by secretly Thiers, seven o'clock in the morning.
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