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Set up as 1889 by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the World Fair, the speedboat of which she was, the Eiffel Tower, of its 350 metres high, stays the up Paris in the edges of the Seine. |
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In 1804 Napoleon 1st gave a magnificent reception here on the occasion of his marriage to Marie-Louise. From the end of the 19th century the gardens of the Champs-Elysées welcomed walkers who had come to enjoy the leisures offered by the Avenue that had become a showcase for progress. From the Bal Mabille to the Lido, from the Café des Ambassadeurs to Fouquet's, from the Panorama to the theaters walkers can discover the latest evolutions in technology, industry, automobiles or the cinema.
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On the Place de l'Etoile raises itself, in the form of vault, the Triumphal arch. His financier, Napoleon, wished a monument to commemorate the glory of the French army. The names of his victories remained engraved in the stone of the monument.
The Arc de Triomphe also contains the grave of the unknown soldier, the symbol of thousands of soldiers killed on the front during the first world war. Since 1923, every November 11th, the Flame of the Memory on the grave of the unknown soldier was symbolically relit by war veterans and soldiers. |
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Installed on a domain of more than 40 hectares right in the heart of Paris, on a right bank of the Seine, the museum of the Louvre offers approximately 60 000 m ² of showrooms dedicated to the conservation of representative objects of 11 millenniums of civilization and culture. |
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Under the old régime, this was the place of popular celebrations, but it became associated with the bloody events of the Terror after Louis XVI, Danton, Robespierre and many others were executed here. In 1795 it was renamed Place de la Concorde in a sign of national reconciliation.
Louis-Philippe, wanting to bring royalists and republicans back together, chose a monument without any political significance in erecting the Obelisk of Luxor in the center of the square, presented as a gift by the Egyptian Viceroy Méhémet Ali.
After a two and a half year voyage from the banks of the Nile the granite monolith, whose ancient hieroglyphics were carved more than 3,000 years ago under Ramesis II, was erected in front of 200,000 spectators, on October 25, 1836. |
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Mon Hôtel - Hotel Paris
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