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arc de triomphe
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The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (, Triumphal Arch of the Star) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the Axe historique (historic axis) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which runs from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806 and its iconographic program pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.
The monument stands in height, wide and deep. The large vault is high and wide. The small vault is high and wide. Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is built on such a large scale that, three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.
It was the tallest triumphal arch in existence until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is high. The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe and is slightly taller at .
Usage examples of "arc de triomphe".
What had been the city's heart was one vast pyre, and the pillars of smoke made a beacon for the Versaillais troops to aim at, as they advanced now on both sides of the Seine, that day pushing as far as the Arc de Triomphe on the Right Bank, the Invalides on the Left.
Uninvited, he had adjusted his steps to theirs, accompanying them toward the Arc de Triomphe.
She straightened up with her hands hanging limply by her sides, looking at the wall where an old photograph of the Arc de Triomphe was hung.
He had been at the Arc de Triomphe that morning, and at Notre Dame and at Montvalerien.
From his Paris office he could get a glimpse of the Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe.
If his horses won the Derby, the Arc de Triomphe, the Washington International, no one was surprised.
Off in the direction of Paris, Nicole could see the familiar shape of the Arc de Triomphe rising from the surface of the model.
Fingers of light illuminated the Arc de Triomphe, rising from the fulcrum of the Place de 1'Etoile, nexus of a dozen major avenues, radiating like the veins on the back of a hand.