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Place de la Concorde Review
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Place de la Concorde
Squares, Champs-Élysées
Fodor's Review:
This square at the foot of Champs-Elysées was originally consecrated to and named after Louis XV, but there was no peace or concord in its early years. During the Revolution, crowds watched Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and more than 2,000 others lose their heads here to Madame Guillotine. After the blood washed away it was renamed Concorde, and in 1833 the politically neutral 107-foot pink granite obelisk originally quarried in the 8th century BC (making this Paris's oldest monument) was erected; it was a present from the viceroy of Egypt. Among the handsome 18th-century buildings facing the square is the Hôtel Crillon, originally built by Gabriel -- architect of Versailles' Petit Trianon -- as a home for three of France's wealthiest families.
INFO
- Address: Champs-Elysees, Paris
- Metro: Concorde.
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