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Place de la Concorde · Paris

Place de la Concorde: The Square That Chose Forgetting

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Place de la Concorde: The Square That Chose Forgetting

📷 Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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Paris's largest public square was built as a monument to royal glory, became the site of 1,119 guillotine executions during the Terror, and was renamed Concorde as if a name could reconcile the memory.

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