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Place de la Concorde

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This square at the foot of Champs-Elysées was originally named after Louis XV. It later became the Place de la Révolution, aka guillotine headquarters, where crowds cheered as Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and some 2,500 others lost their heads. Renamed Concorde in 1836, it got a new centerpiece: the 75-foot granite Obelisk of Luxor, a gift from Egypt quarried in the 8th century bc. Among the handsome 18th-century buildings facing the square is the Hôtel Crillon, originally built as a private home by Gabriel, architect of Versailles's Petit Trianon

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