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The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 7.6 ha (19 acres) in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. It was the site of many notable public executions,
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The place was originally designed to be the site of an equestrian statue of King Louis XV, commissioned in 1748 by the merchants of Paris, to celebrate the recovery of King Louis XV...
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• The Luxor Obelisk
• Illustration on the base of the obelisk, showing how it was raised into place in 1836...
See moreIn January 2021, Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, announced that the city would undertake an ambitious €250 million redesign of the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées. Work
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See more• Barozzi, Jacques (2010). Paris de Fontaine en Fontaine. Paris: Parigramme. ISBN 978-2-84096-658-6.
• Hillairet, Jacques (1978). Connaissance du...
See more• Images of the Place: Series of images of the Place de la Concorde from the 18th to the 20th century
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See more• Execution of Louis XVI
• List of works by James Pradier
• The 1920s redesign of Logan Circle (Philadelphia) was based on the Place de la Concorde...
See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licenseWas this helpful?Thanks! Give more feedback La place de la Concorde, qui s’étend sur 8,64 hectares, est la plus grande place de Paris. Le nom aurait été choisi par le Directoire pour marquer la réconciliation des Français après les excès de la Terreur.
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