Arc de Triomphe · Paris
Arc de Triomphe: Ordered the Day After Austerlitz
🏛️History🏗️Architecture
📷 Jiuguang Wang / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Napoleon commissioned it the morning after his greatest victory and never saw it finished — the arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées took 30 years to build and has stood at the centre of French national life ever since.
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