TEC4594788: 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
TEC4594836: 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 display cases. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595266: Boulevard Malesherbes with the church Saint Augustin, Paris 8th arrondissement. The largest church built in Paris in the 19th century. Its structure is entirely metal and the stone walls are just an envelope. Construction 1860-1871, architect Victor Balard (1805-1874). / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595367: 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
TEC4595557: L'institut de France, College des quatre nations, 21 quai de Conti, Paris 6th arrondissement. Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) left in his will in 1661 a legacy to build a college and academy for the education of children born in the four nations. In 1806, the Institut de France took possession of the former college. Architect Louis Le Vau (1612-1670), construction 1662-1688. / Bridgeman Images