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HOTEL CENTRE VILLE ETOILE |
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Hôtel Centre Ville Etoile - hotel Paris
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The Arc de Triomphe  |
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The Arc de Triomphe was constructed to honour the Great Army in 1836, it is where all military parades take place, beginning with the 1918 victory parade which took place on July 14, 1919.
The Arc de Triomphe with its monumental arch, decorated in bas-relief, with scenes showing the revolutionary period (including the First Empire).
On the right, on the side facing the Champs Elysées will be found "La Marseillaise" by Rude representing the departure of the volunteers to the front in 1792.
On the left side "le Triomphe de Napoléon en 1810" by Cortot.
"La résistance de 1814" and "La Paix de 1815" are on the other sides, modestly turned to the other side of the city.
To view the Arc de Triomphe up close you can take the underpass from the Champs Elysées or the Avenue de la Grande Armée, which will take you to the center of the square.
From there an elevator will take you to the top, where on clear days, you can see most of Paris.
A small museum presents the history of the Arch. |
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Park Monceau |
In 1769, the Duke of Chartres, future Duke of Orleans, made build close to the village of Heap a "folie". The drauwer and author of Carmontelle comedies, helped of a landscape designer Thomas Blaikie, created an imaginary garden with false Gothic ruins, a Dutch mill, a Tartar tent, a pagoda, an Egyptian pyramid... The garden was a place of curiosities in the open air revealing the attractions of nature and civilization. October 22, 1797, it is in this park that the first parachutist of the history, A. Garnerin sprang since a montgolfier.
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In 1860, at the time of the fastening of the village of Heap in Paris, half of the park was sold to the Péreire brothers by the town of Paris in order to build private mansions.
Second half was refitted in landscaped garden by Alphand on behalf of the Haussmann prefect, and was issued park. Along the its quiet alleys, the park preserved beautiful statues, its Egyptian pyramid - work of Carmontelle -, its Naumachie...
The park also has many infrastructures for young people: swings, toboggans, vats with sand, cycle tracks... |
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Madeleine's church |
At the end of the Rue Royal you can found the Palace de la Madeleine with its unmistakable Greek temple form. It was built for the glory of Napoléon's Grande Armée. The commemorative role of the edifice was lost when the Arc de Triomphe was built.
In 1842 it was consecrated as a church. |
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The Eiffel Tower |
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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