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	Paris Pages; Place de la Concorde
		The Place de la Concorde, which is the largest place in Paris, is situated along the Seine and separates the Tuilerie Gardens from the beginning of the Champs Elysées.
		The place was constructed to hold an equestrian statue of Louis XV that the city of Paris commissioned in 1748 from Bouchardon to offer to the king.
		In contrast to older places that were closed, la Place de la Concorde, largely open, served as an intersection as well as a decoration.
	www.paris.org /Monuments/Concorde (804 words)

	Place de la Concorde
		Elle deviendra la place de la Révolution en 1792, après le renversement de la statue équestre du roi sculptée par Bouchardon.
		Pas moins de 1119 personnes, parmi lesquelles le Roi Louis XVI, sa femme Marie-Antoinette, la plupart de leurs proches, puis les chefs de la Révolution, subiront ici le châtiment de la guillotine.
		La place de la Concorde vue de la terrasse du bord de l'eau.
	www.insecula.com /musee/M0051.html (521 words)

	Place de la Concorde, Paris
		At 8 hectares, the octagonal Place de la Concorde is the largest square in Paris.
		It was known as the place Louis XV.
		In the 19th century the 3200 years old obelisk from the temple of Ramses II at Thebes was installed at the center of the Place de la Concorde.
	www.aviewoncities.com /paris/placedelaconcorde.htm (386 words)

	Paris photo gallery description of the Place de la Concorde in Paris with links to free photos and pictures of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Place de la Concorde" was built in the mid-18th century between 1754 and 1763 by architect Jacques-Ange Gabriel.
		In 1790, the square was renamed as the "Place de la Revolution".
		Besides, there is "Hotel de la Marine" (the ministry of Naval affairs) on the right side and one of Paris' most luxurious and exclusive hotel called "Hotel de Crillon" (The Crillon hotel) is situated on the left side.
	www.parisphotogallery.com /Paris/photos/monuments/description/Place_de_la_Concorde.htm (343 words)

	Hotel Concorde Paris - Hotels Place de la Concorde à Paris
		La place de la Concorde est située au pied de l'avenue des Champs Elysées dans le 8ème arrondissement à Paris.
		Hôtel 4 étoiles idéalement situé entre la Concorde et le jardin des Tuileries, à proximité immédiate du musée du Louvre,...
		Hôtel 3 étoiles de 31 chambres situé au cœur du prestigieux quartier du Palais Royal à Paris, à; deux pas du Louvre et de la place de la Concorde.
	www.parisreferencement.com /hotel-concorde.htm (241 words)

	Concorde Obelisk
		The Place de la Concorde was designed by Jacques Ange Gabriel, in 1755, as a moat-skirted octagon between the Avenue des Champs-Élysées to the west and the Jardin des Tuileries, Garden of the Tuileries, to the east.
		To the north of the Place de la Concorde, with a direct view of it via rue Royale, is the church of Ste.
		To the south of the Place de la Concorde, across the Seine river by the bridge Pont de la Concorde, is the Assemblée Nationale, the National Assembly.
	www.paris-walking-tours.com /concordeobelisk.html (557 words)

	Paris - The Place De La Concorde - The Champs-Elysées And The Invalides
		The Place De La Concorde — The Champs-elysées And The Invalides
		The Place De La Concorde - The Champs-Elysées And The Invalides
		If the Place de la Concorde may be called at night a congress of lamps, the Champs-Elysées in the afternoon may be said to be a congress of wheels.— Wheels in such numbers and revolving at such a pace are never seen in England, not even on.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/paris-9.shtml (5209 words)

	Metropole Paris - The Place de la Concorde
		From what I can gather, the site of the Place de la Concorde was outside Paris at the time, in sort of a no-man's land between the Tuileries and the beginning of the Champs-Elysées, which was just a track running out to some gardener's shacks at Chaillot.
		Within these dates France had a revolution, the pont de la Concorde was built, the rue de Rivoli was begun and the 'Chevaux de Marly' were placed on either side of the entry to the Champs-Elysées.
		Afterwards it was used at Bastille, the Place de la Nation; then returned again to Concorde for Maximilien Robespierre, and finally for a last time in May 1795.
	www.metropoleparis.com /1998/338/338corde.html (1716 words)

	Place de la Concorde - Paris - France
		Place de la Concorde is often associated with the bloody events that took place on its pavement.
		Just on the Place de la Concorde sits the famous "palace" the Hôtel Crillon, which is amongst the citadels of Parisian snobbery.
		The monument was installed here under Louis-Philippe who, bearing in mind the death and destruction witnessed by Place de la Concorde, was pleased to have found a non-political monument to replace the unpopular Bourbon Louis the XVth statue.
	www.paris-tourism.com /paris/us/patrimoine_loisirs/monuments/place_de_la_concorde.html (594 words)

	Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde
		Place de la Concorde in early 20th Century.
		Then, on October 25th, 1836, it was erected at the center of Place de la Concorde in Paris, in the presence of French King Louis Philippe, and all this great project was finally completed.
		This was placed on top of this obelisk at the beginning.
	members.aol.com /Sokamoto31/paris.htm (770 words)

	Rue de Rivoli avec Video de Paris, Balades à Paris, videos de paris
		La rue de Rivoli du nom d’une victoire du Général Napoléon Bonaparte, pas encore empereur, commence à trois kilomètres d’ici et vient se terminer sur la Place de la Concorde que nous retrouvons.
		Cette rue, ainsi que la Place de la Concorde furent le théâtre de violents combats de chars lors de la libération de Paris, le 25 août 1944.
		Des plaques, placées près de l’entrée du métro Concorde, rappellent la mémoire de celles et ceux qui laissèrent leur vie lors de ces combats.
	www.balades-paris.com /rue-rivoli.html (125 words)

	Place de la Concorde, Obelisk of Luxor
		Installed in 1833, the Obelisk —; weighing 230 tons and standing 22.83 meters (75 ft) high in the center of the Place — is flanked on both sides by two fountains constructed during the same period.
		At the south end of the square, the Pont de la Concorde, built by Jean-Rodolphe Perronnet between 1787-1790 and widened between 1930-1932, crosses the Seine, leading to the Palais Bourbon — home of the French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale).
		Statue representing one of France's cities, in the Place de la Concorde, from Paris Images, ©1997 Christine Moisset, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA — All Rights Reserved.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Paris/Monuments-Paris/Obelisque.shtml (1216 words)

	Place de la Concorde - Find out why this Paris tourist attraction isn't worth a visit
		The Place de la Concorde is said to be a marvellous place to be in Paris.
		The Place de la Concorde, former known as Place de la Revolution, was the spine-chilling place where the famous Guillotine stood during the French Revolution and executed thousands of French aristocrats during the bloody revolution.
		We recommend to skip a visit of the Place de la Concorde if you are on a tight time schedule.
	www.parismont.com /108/place-de-la-concorde (481 words)

	Place de la Concorde- Paris, France - VirtualTourist.com
		The place was constructed to hold an equestrian statue of Louis XV that the city of Paris commissioned in 1748 from Bouchardon to offer to the king.
		During the French Revolution, the sqauare came to be known as Place de la Revolution, and the statue of Louis XV was replaced by a guillotine.
		The Place de la Concorde is dominated by this huge Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics in honour to the reign of the pharaoh Ramses II (photo 2).
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/Things_To_Do-Paris-Place_de_la_Concorde-BR-1.html (2079 words)

	Many Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At 8 Hectares, the octagonal Place de la Concorde is the largest square in Paris.
		It was known as the place Louis XV.
		In 1792, during the French revolution, the statue was replaced by a another, large statue, called 'Liberty' (freedom) and the square was called place de la Revolution.
	kristis.net /concorde.html (165 words)

	Place de la Concorde
		Place de la Concorde is often associated with the bloody events that took place on its pavement.
		Just on the Place de la Concorde sits the famous "palace" the HôTel Crillon, which is amongst the citadels of Parisian snobbery.
		The monument was installed here under Louis Philippe who, bearing in mind the death and destruction witnessed by Place de la Concorde, was pleased to have found a non-political monument to replace the unpopular Bourbon Louis the XVth statue.
	www.timhotel.com /places/us/concorde.html (621 words)

	Metropole Paris – Place de la Concorde
		From what I can gather, the site of the Place de la Concorde was outside Paris at the time, in sort of a no–man's land between the Tuileries and the beginning of the Champs–Elysées, which was just a track running out to some gardener's shacks at Chaillot.
		Within these dates France had a revolution, the Pont de la Concorde was built, the Rue de Rivoli was begun and the 'Chevaux de Marly' were placed on either side of the entry to the Champs–Elysées.
		Thierry de Ville–d'Avrey, was a senior valet to the king and lived in great splendor here; also having arranged a neat pied–à–terre in the building for Marie–Antoinette.
	www.metropoleparis.com /2004/938/938cord.html (1630 words)

	Place De La Concorde
		Extending from the Seine all the way to the Rue de Rivoli is the Place de la Concorde, the largest and the most famous single square in Paris.
		These "sentry boxes," by the way, are so placed that, with the balustrade which connected them along the edges of the moats, they formed the limits of the original square, so that the Place de la Concorde was originally octagonal.
		It sometimes performed its chore on the Champ-de-Mars, on the Place da la Bastille, and on what was then called the Place du Trone, but is now called the Place de la Nation, and it was there that the Poet Andre Chenier lost his life, on July 20, 1794, the tragic victim of mistaken identity.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles03/paris4.shtml (1841 words)

	Place de la Concorde
		Place de la Concorde is formerly Place Louis XV, because it was created during his reign.
		Stones from the demolition of the prison of La Bastille were used "so that" it was said, "the people could continually trample on the ancient fortress".
		The square was then renamed "Place de la revolution", and it was where executions took place.
	www.angelfire.com /il/semenyuk/Concorde.html (262 words)

	Place de la Concorde - Hotel Littre Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It may be the Place de la Concorde ("concorde" means agreement in French), but this square in Paris has a bloody history with more than 1300 people having been beheaded within its boundaries.
		Originally Place Louis XV, it was changed by revolutionaries to Place de la Revolution.
		Just on the Place de la Concorde sits a famous "palace", the Hotel Crillon, which is amongst the citadels of Parisian snobbery.
	www.hotellittreparis.com /fiche/concorde.html (524 words)

	Champs Elysées - Place De La Concorde - Haussmann - France - Notre Dame De Paris - Visiting Paris France - Notre Dame ...
		Place Louis XV was finished in 1763, and was the setting of some tragic events in the following years.
		It was in one of these townhouses, the Hotel de Coislin - 4, place de la Concorde - that the friendship treaty was signed in 1778, whereby France officially recognized the independence of the 13 states that made up the United States of America at the time.
		It took about two years just to set in place the foundations which had to be 26 ft deep because the limestone soil would not support the weight of such a structure.
	www.francemonthly.com /n/1201/index.php (1814 words)

	Paris MYSTERIOUS - Place de la Concorde - Description and history
		Designed by the architect Jacques-Ange Gabriel at the behest of Louis XV, its centre was initially adorned with a statue of the King on horseback, a statue destroyed during the French Revolution.
		Renamed Concorde during the period of national reconciliation, it was not until the 19th century that the place took on its current form with its triple lampposts crowned with ships representing Paris, and above all its enormous obelisk, planted in the place’s geometric centre in 1836.
		The place is also adorned with two magnificent green bronze fountains and with 8 statues symbolising France’s greatest cities.
	www.parisbestlodge.com /placedelaconcorde.html (281 words)

	Amazon.com: La Place De LA Concorde Suisse: Books: John McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society.
		La Place de la Concorde Suisse is about the Swiss army, but, as they say, when you talk about Switzerland, you talk about their defense.
		In German, La Place de la Concorde Suisse is rendered Concordiaplatz, and it is visible from the Jungfraujoch, which means "virgin saddle," and which is reached via funicular railway from Interlaken.
	www.amazon.com /Place-Concorde-Suisse-John-McPhee/dp/0374519323 (1987 words)

	Heirs of General Practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Swiss Army is a militia, composed of 650,000 people who can be fully mobilized in less than forty-eight hours but generally pursue civilian occupations while their assault rifles repose under beds and in closets at home.
		On patrol as leader of a Section de Renseignements, he helps McPhee to gather his own information for a book full of wit and deft characterization--actually a portrait of Switzerland within the frame of its militia, and of the thoroughly intertwined relationships between the army and the society it serves.
		is the core of McPhee's engaging La Place de la Concorde Suisse.
	www.johnmcphee.com /laplace.htm (269 words)

	Pictures of Place de la Concorde, Paris
		Place de la Concorde with the Egyptian Obelisk, Paris.
		Paris' Place de la Concorde with the gates of Tuileries Garden & Hôtel de la Marine.
		La Roue de Paris ferris wheel on Place de la Concorde.
	www.planetware.com /pictures-/paris-place-de-la-concorde-f-p-cond.htm (95 words)

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	blog.pebourgouin.com /?p=223 (266 words)

	Place de la Concorde - Hall of Shame \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
		Place de la Concorde is the worst of all public spaces in Paris because it exists solely to move traffic.
		Calling it the Place de la Concorde ("Square of Peace") is the height of irony.
		The original place de la Concorde was a masterpiece of 18th century architecture and urbanism.
	www.pps.org /great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=719&type_id=2 (539 words)

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