TEC4681263: L'Arc de Triomphe, Place Charles de Gaulle, Paris 75008. Architecture of Abel Blouet, Jean Francois Chalgrin and Jean-Nicolas L'Abbaye, 1806-1836. Napoleon 1st decided to build an arch to the glory of the Great Armee on the Place de l'Etoile and was inaugurated thirty years later by King Louis Philippe / Bridgeman Images