TEC4594746: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594757: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594768: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594790: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595116: Le PeuPalais, avenue Winston Churchill, Paris 8th arrondissement. The building, built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, architect Charles Girault (1851-1932), today houses the Musee des Beaux Arts of the City of Paris, which includes many works from antiquite to the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595242: Fouquet's avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th round. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595363: Atonomous chapel, Square Louis XVI, Paris 8th arrondissement, raised at the request of Louis XVIII (1755-1824) on the site of the cemetery of the Madeleine, where the bodies of Louis XVI (1754-1893), Marie Antoinette of Austria (1755-1793), the Swiss guards and numerous guillotines of the Place de la Revolution were deposited. Architect Pierre Francois leonard Fontaine (1762-1853), construction 1816-1826. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595372: Atonomous chapel, Square Louis XVI, Paris 8th arrondissement, raised at the request of Louis XVIII (1755-1824) on the site of the cemetery of the Madeleine, where the bodies of Louis XVI (1754-1893), Marie Antoinette of Austria (1755-1793), the Swiss guards and numerous guillotines of the Place de la Revolution were deposited. Architect Pierre Francois leonard Fontaine (1762-1853), construction 1816-1826. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4548743: Les Invalides, Paris 7. Architecture 1671-1676 by Liberal Bruant (1636-1697) and Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708). Louis XIV (1638-1715) founded by an edit of 24 May 1670 the first French hospital to receive soldiers who had become disabled. He immediately received more than 5,000 residents. Today the hotel houses the armee museums, a library and many administrative services. / Bridgeman Images