TEC4594763: 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
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
TEC4595237: Statue of Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) on the Champs Elysees, Paris 75008. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of General de Gaulle, Jacques Chirac (born in 1932) inaugurated a statue representing him in military dress as he was when he descended the Champs Elysees at the Liberation of Paris on 26 August 1944. Artwork by Jean Cardot, 2000. (born in 1830). / 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