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Place De La Concorde

The Place de la Concorde, which is the largest place in The french capital, is situated along the Seine and separates the Tuilerie Gardens from the beginning of the Champs Elysées. It is in the 8th arrondissement, or area, of the city.
The place was constructed to hold an equestrian statue of Louis XV that the city of The french capital commissioned in 1748 from Bouchardon to offer to the king. The place formed an octagon bordered by large moats that no longer exist. In contrast to older places that had been closed, La Place de la Concorde, largely open, served as an intersection as well as a ornament. If you are looking for an accommodation near if that place you can louer appartement Paris.

It became the Place de la Révolution and held in its center the guillotine that executed in particular Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, Robespierre, and 2800 other people between 1793 and 1795. It is said that the odor of blood was so strong that a herd of cattle refused to cross the place. After the Revolution it suffered a series of transformations and several changes of name: place de la Concorde, place Louis XV again, place Louis XVI, place de la Chartre, and once again place de la Concorde to symbolize the end of a troubled era and the hope of a better future. To visit Place de la Concorde, you need a locations Paris

The place today maintains the general look that it had in the eighteenth century. The statue of Louis XV, removed for the duration of the Revolution, was changed by the Obelisk of Luxor given by the viceroy of Egypt, Mohamed Ali, to Louis Phillipe. The obelisk, 22.83 meters high and weighing 230 tons, which marked the entrance to the Amon temple at Luxor, was installed in 1836. On all corner of the octagon is found a statue that represents one of the large French cities: Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Brest and Rouen.
The place is delimited to the north by l’Hôtel Crillon and l’Hôtel of the Navy Minister that frames the rue Royale, to the east by the Jeu de Paume and L’Orangerie of the Tuileries, to the west by the beginning of the Champs Elysés then to the south by the bridge of the Concorde built by Perronnet between 1787 and 1790.