Paris

Walkway in front of the Carrousel Arc De Triomphe (1806-7) leading to the Tuileries, to the Place de la Concorde, a three thousand year old obelisk on the spot occupied by the guillotine during the Great Revolution, and in line with Napoleon's Chaillot Arc De Triomphe (1806-36).


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