The Arc de Triomphe is located on Paris's Axe historique, a large perspective that runs from the Louvre to the Grande Arche | Arche de la Défense.

The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis ( Axe historique ) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense.

In the prolongation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a new arch, the Grande Arche de la Défense, was built in 1982, completing the line of monuments that forms Paris's Axe historique.

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** The Grande Arche, commonly known as Arche de la Défense, in Paris

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* Défense et illustration de la boxe française.

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe de l ' Étoile, and the Grande Arche of La Défense, on the same perspective.

The axis was extended again westwards along the Avenue de la Grande Armée, past the city boundary of Paris to La Défense.

This is the work of Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, La Grande Arche de la Fraternité ( also known as simply La Grande Arche or L ' Arche de la Défense ), a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than militaristic victories.

Image: Arc De Triomphe from La Defense. jpg | The Arc de Triomphe from La Défense 5 km ( 3 mi ) away, showing how precisely the axis is aligned.

Angelopoulos was awarded honorary doctorates by the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium in 1995, by Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, France, by the University of Essex, UK in July 2001, by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008, and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009.

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* Défense de la Tradition et des Saints Pères ( 1691 – 93 )

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In 1860, the merchants along the Avenue joined together to form the Syndicat d ' Initiative et de Défense des Champs-Élysées, changed to an association in 1916 to promote commercially the Avenue.

La Grande Arche de la Défense (; also La Grande Arche de la Fraternité ) is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France.

The defection of Georges Yambot from the African Socialist Movement ( MSA ) to Youlou's Union Démocratique pour la Défense d ' Intérêts Africains ( UDDIA ) helped Youlou become Prime Minister in 1958.

It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche.

North façade of the Grande Arche de la Défense.

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* 1990: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre was held at La Défense in Paris.

* La Savate Défense ( 1994 – present ): was first presented by Professeur Piere Chainge then produced into Self-Defense by Eric Quequet in 2000.

In the 1950s, the area around La Défense was marked out to become a new business district, and high-rise office buildings were built along the avenue.

La Défense is named after the iconic statue La Défense de Paris, which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

In September 1958, The Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense ( EPAD ) buildings ( of which the Esso Tower was the very first ) were built and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms.

In 1970, the RER line A railway was opened from La Défense to Étoile.

During the same period, hotels were constructed, the CNIT was restructured, and in 1992, Line 1 of the Paris Métro was extended to La Défense, which made the area readily accessible to even more of the city.

Hélène Viannay, one of the founders of Défense de la France, who was married to a man who shared her political views, was never permitted to express her opinions in the underground newspaper, and her husband took two years to arrive at political conclusions she had held for many years.

By January 1944, Défense de la France was distributing 450, 000 copies.

In 1980, Bernard Courcelle was a member, along with Bruno Gollnisch, of the Direction de la Protection de la Sécurité et de la Défense ( DPSD ), an official Ministry of Defence organization in charge of recruiting mercenaries and informing on weapons traffic.

The famous manifesto of the Pléiade, the Défense et illustration de la langue française ( Defense and Illustration of the French Language, 1549 ), was at once a complement and a refutation of Sébillet's treatise.

The Défense et illustration de la langue française of the latter appeared in 1549, and the Pléiade ( or Brigade, as it was first called ) may be said to have been then launched.

He enjoyed immense popularity until the appearance of Joachim du Bellay's Défense et illustration ... in 1549, where Saint-Gelais was not excepted from the scorn poured on contemporary poets.

The section from Étoile ( not yet renamed after Charles de Gaulle ) to La Défense was opened a few weeks later.

La Défense, in the greater Paris area, could also be considered a planned town, though it was not built all at once but in successive stages beginning in the 1950s.

The insurgent movement was organized by the National Committee for the Defense of the Revolution ( Comité National pour la Défense de la Révolution, CNDR ), which joined the remnants of Ait Ahmed's FFS and Boudiaf's PRS with the surviving regional military leaders.

It was founded in June 1998 from the merger of Groupe Union Défense and Nouvelle Résistance / Jeune Résistance / Union des Cercles Résistance, issued from Nouvelle Résistance, and dissolved on August 6, 2002.

Napoleon's original motto, " Ils s ' instruisent pour vaincre " (" They study to overcome / conquer / win "), was changed by the restoration king, Louis XVIII, to: " Ils s ' instruisent pour la Défense de la Patrie " (" They study for the Defence of the Fatherland ").