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Hôtel France d'Antin - hotel Paris
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Opera Garnier  |
The second empire style became a reference in opera house architecture and the Opéra Garnier has become an illustration of this field.
The theatre is richly decorated.
The great staircase, of which the first ten steps form a magnificent elevator cage, lead to the main foyer which opens onto the boxes with their flowered moldings.
Both inside and out, white stone and the colored marbles with their bronze statues underline the majesty of the proportions.
Marc Chagall created new frescos in 1964.
In the center is an immense crystal chandelier weighing six tons. |
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Madeleine |
The temple built as a monument to the Great Army was commissioned in 1806 by Napoleon from the architect Barthelemy Vignon after the construction of the church had been successively taken up by Contant d'Ivry in 1794 on the model of St Louis des Invalides, then by Couture on the model of the Pantheon, before being interrupted between 1790 and 1806.
This stout Greek Temple was constructed in the dimensions required by the Emperor and is supported by Corinthian columns of 30 meters high.
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Louvre Museum |
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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Place de la Concorde |
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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