As late as 1716, Guillaume Delisle's map of Paris shows that a short stretch of roads and fields and market garden plots still separated the grand axe of the Tuileries gardens from the planted " Avenue des Thuilleries ," stretches west from a newly cleared Place du Pont Tournant soon to be renamed for Louis XV and now the Place de la Concorde.

The Paris International Marathon () is an annual marathon which takes place from the Champs-Élysées heading towards the Place de la Concorde and continuing through the city to finish at Foch Avenue.

The race starts on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées going downhill to circle round the Place de la Concorde before turning right onto Rue de Rivoli.

The ship was La Concorde of Saint-Malo, a large French guineaman carrying a cargo of slaves.

The former Louis XVI, now simply named Citoyen Louis Capet ( Citizen Louis Capet ), was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 on the Place de la Révolution, former Place Louis XV, now called the Place de la Concorde.

While at Aviation he oversaw the high profile cancellations of the BAC TSR-2 and Concorde projects ( although the latter was later reversed after strong opposition from the French Government ).

In April 2006 an instance with 85, 900 points was solved using Concorde TSP Solver, taking over 136 CPU-years, see.

The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.

At 12: 15 p. m., two and a half weeks before her thirty-eighth birthday, she was beheaded at the Place de la Révolution ( present-day Place de la Concorde ).

Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times.

Building and enlarging the islands, along with the new Concorde Bridge built to connect them with the site-specific mass transit system known as the Montreal Expo Express, plus a boat pier, cost more than the Saint Lawrence Seaway project did only five years earlier: this was even before any buildings or infrastructure were constructed.

She was also a prominent patron of architecture, being responsible for the building of the Place Louis XV ( now called Place de la Concorde ) and the École Militaire in Paris, both built by her protégé Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

In the novels A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal, A Time For War, A Time For Peace, Errand of Vengeance: Seeds of Rage, and Articles of the Federation, the Federation Council was shown occupying the floors below the President's office in the Palais de la Concorde.

During his stay, the Khedive of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, offered the two obelisks standing at the entrance of Luxor Temple to France in 1829, but only one was transported to Paris where it now stands on the Place de la Concorde.

Between the Tuileries gardens and the Champs Élysées extension a jumble of buildings remained on the site of Place de la Concorde until early in the reign of Louis XV, for whom the square was at first named.

Her husband was accused of having poorly defended Mainz in July 1793, and considered an aristocratic " suspect ", was sentenced to death and guillotined, with his cousin Augustin, on 23 July 1794, on the Place de la Révolution ( today's Place de la Concorde ) in Paris.

Marshal Mobutu was known to charter a Concorde from Air France for personal use, including shopping trips to Paris for himself and his family.

In 1989, Mobutu chartered Concorde aircraft F-BTSD for a June 26-July 5 trip to give a speech at the United Nations in New York City, July 16 for French bicentennial celebrations in Paris ( where he was a guest of President François Mitterrand ), on September 19 for a flight from Paris to Gbadolite, and another nonstop flight from Gbadolite to Marseille with the youth choir of Zaire.

Notable aircraft produced by the company include the ' Boxkite ', the Bristol Fighter, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Beaufighter, and the Britannia, and much of the preliminary work which led to the Concorde was carried out by the company.

His funeral cortège passed through ranks assembled for Bastille Day celebrations at the Place de la Concorde, and he was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.

Under the Directory the square was renamed Place de la Concorde as a gesture of reconciliation after the turmoil of the French Revolution.

After the July Revolution of 1830 the name was returned to Place de la Concorde and has remained since.

He was supported by Gaulle in being named as director of Sud Aviation company, which created the first Concorde plane.

The sunk cost fallacy is in game theory sometimes known as the " Concorde Fallacy ", referring to the fact that the British and French governments continued to fund the joint development of Concorde even after it became apparent that there was no longer an economic case for the aircraft.

It was used as a test airport for the Concorde during the 1970s, to determine how the aircraft would perform while taking off and landing at high altitude.

The first Concorde delivered to British Airways was registered G-BOAC.

* The bridge built over the now water-filled ditch is named " Pont de la Concorde " ( Concord Bridge, as in good relations ) in the French version, a reference to the bridge in Paris of the same name.

On January 19, 1981, after thirteen straight hours of negotiation, all parties present signed the first Concorde Agreement, named after the plaza in Paris where the discussions took place.

On 17 November, a 200-ton ship named the Concorde was attacked by two pirate craft nearly away from the island of Martinique.

The station is named after boulevard de la Concorde, which in turn is named for the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

* Concorde ( Paris Métro ), a railway station named after the nearby Place de la Concorde

Significantly larger than the AMC Concord, flagship of the LH line was similarly named, the Chrysler Concorde.

Also noteworthy are the Kossou Dam, the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation, the PDCI-RDA House, the various schools of the Félix-Houphouët-Boigny Polytechnic Institute, the international airport ( with an average of six hundred passengers and 36 flights in 1995, it is one of two airports in Africa ( with Gbadolite ) that could accommodate the Concorde ), the Town Hall, the Protestant Temple, the Mosque, and the Palace of Hosts.

In 1986, she met the golfer Sam Torrance, who proposed to her in 1987 on a Concorde flight on the way to play in the Ryder Cup in Columbus, Ohio, but they did not get married until several years later when, in 1995, a surprise marriage was arranged at Skibo Castle.

In 1995, Concorde G-BOAF had its nose damaged in a handling accident at Heathrow Airport.

Several French monuments are also on the street, including the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde.

The main street is host to Erickson Plumbing & Heating Hardware store, Concorde Bank, post office, the former Blomkest Food Market, a restaurant under construction, the Blomkest Baptist Church, a steel construction company, the city park / fire department / community center & Dyrnwyn Studios, a multimedia production studio.

Napoleon's original section of the street opened up eastward from the Place de la Concorde.

", but in French, street names are capitalized when they are proper names, the noun itself (" Rue ", " Place ") is normally not capitalized: " rue de Rivoli ", " place de la Concorde ".

Entry to the Mercedes complex is free to the public, for a not inconsiderable fee (£ 25. 50 for two adults and a child, Aug 2011 ) visitors can enter Brooklands Museum and view the collection of historic cars and aircraft, including Concorde.

Payments to the teams are determined by the Concorde Agreement, which gives the teams 50 % of the television money in constructors championship order, and awards a prize fund to teams based upon their results, which is drawn from the fees Grand Prix promoters pay for staging the race.