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
TEC4595644: La Madeleine, Place de la Madeleine, Paris 8th arrondissement. The building lasted nearly a century. Subject to political aleas, it was finally Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821) who entrusted Pierre Vignon (1863-1928) with the task of building an ancient temple dedicated to his military glory. Only the Restoration gave back to the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene its religious vocation. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595816: The door of Meknes on the Place de la Concorde, Paris 8th arrondissement. Plastic intervention by Catherine Feff, during “Le Temps du Maroc” during 1999, Moroccan and French artists reproduced in the spring, on Place de la Concorde, the door of Meknes, in full size, one of the jewels of Moroccan architecture: 3,000 square meters of canvas designed and made in France dress a scaffolding of 40 metres wide, 15 metres high and 25 metres deep. Photography 1999. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595838: The door of Meknes on the Place de la Concorde, Paris 8th arrondissement. Plastic intervention by Catherine Feff, during “Le Temps du Maroc” during 1999, Moroccan and French artists reproduced in the spring, on Place de la Concorde, the door of Meknes, in full size, one of the jewels of Moroccan architecture: 3,000 square meters of canvas designed and made in France dress a scaffolding of 40 metres wide, 15 metres high and 25 metres deep. Photography 1999. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595849: The door of Meknes on the Place de la Concorde, Paris 8th arrondissement. Plastic intervention by Catherine Feff, during “Le Temps du Maroc” during 1999, Moroccan and French artists reproduced in the spring, on Place de la Concorde, the door of Meknes, in full size, one of the jewels of Moroccan architecture: 3,000 square meters of canvas designed and made in France dress a scaffolding of 40 metres wide, 15 metres high and 25 metres deep. Photography 1999. / Bridgeman Images