There was the Arc de Triomphe and the Tour d'Eiffel -- I was no yokel, but I was young, and this was Paris!!

The Arc de Triomphe from the Place Charles de Gaulle

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 ( Arc de Triomphe de l ' Étoile ) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris.

There is a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre.

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.

The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

Following its construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day Military Parade.

A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U. S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944.

After the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Arc de Triomphe de l ' Étoile, the Grande Arche is the third arch built on the same perspective.

Avenues radiate from the Arc de Triomphe in Place Charles de Gaulle | Place de l ' Étoile.

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe, Paris

It was originally decided on 12 November 1919 to bury the unknown soldier's remains in the Panthéon, but a public letter-writing campaign led to the decision to bury him beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

The Arc de Triomphe is accessible by the RER and Métro, with exit at the Charles de Gaulle — Étoile station.

* Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe

* Inscriptions on the Arc de Triomphe

* Joan of " Ark ", occasional misspelling of Joan of Arc, a French martyr and saint who led a rebellion against an English occupation

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

The historical John Fastolf fought at the Battle of Patay against Joan of Arc, which the English lost.

On March 23, 1430, Joan of Arc dictated a letter that threatened to lead a crusading army against the Hussites unless they returned to the Catholic faith, but her capture by English and Burgundian troops two months later would keep her from carrying out this threat.

* 1429 – Hundred Years ' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.

* 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay.

* 1431 – Judges ' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.

* January 9 – Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France under English occupation.

* Voices tell Joan of Arc that Charles VII of France must be crowned and the English expelled from France.

* June 18 – Battle of Patay: French forces under Joan of Arc smash the English forces under Lord Talbot and Sir John Fastolf, forcing the withdrawal of the English from the Loire Valley.

The Treaty of Troyes ( 1420 ) ceded it to the English, who had made a futile attempt to take it by siege in 1360 ; but French patriots expelled them on the approach of Joan of Arc, who in 1429 had Charles VII consecrated in the cathedral.

Rouen became the capital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since May 1430, she was logically sent to this city for Christmas 1430 and after a long trial by a church court, sentenced to be burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in this city, where most inhabitants supported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy.

The king of France Charles VII recaptured the town in 1449, 18 years after the death of Joan of Arc and after 30 years of English occupation.

Joan of Arc also sent out messengers to the English bastions demanding their departure, which the English commanders greeted with jeers.

15th C. depiction of Joan of Arc leading an assault on an English fort at the siege of Orleans

His next novel, Arch of Triumph, first published in 1945 in English, and the next year in German as Arc de Triomphe, was another instant best-seller and reached worldwide sales of nearly five million.

*( 1945 ) Arc de Triomphe ; English translation: Arch of Triumph ( 1945 )

When the English captured Joan of Arc in 1431, Beaufort presided at her trial before she was burned at the stake.

French troops of Joan of Arc besieging English fortifications in attempt to break the siege of Orleans.

Meanwhile, in the little village of Domrémy, on the border between Lorraine and Champagne, a teenage girl named Jeanne d ' Arc ( in English: Joan of Arc ), believing she had been given a divine mission after apparently hearing the voices of angels, demanded of the Duke of Lorraine the soldiers and resources necessary to bring her to Chinon, and the Dauphin.

The residence of several French kings, it is also the place where Joan of Arc went in 1429 to be blessed by the Archbishop of Reims before departing with her army to drive the English from Orléans.

Another well-known landmark in Bucharest is Arcul de Triumf ( The Triumphal Arch ), built in its current form in 1935 and modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

The Arch of Titus has provided the general model for many of the triumphal arches erected since the 16th century — perhaps most famously it is the inspiration for the 1806 Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, completed in 1836.

The design of the arch is based on that of the Arch of Constantine in Rome and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris.

Arches in the Roman style have been built in many cities around the world, most notably the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Siegestor in Munich and the Wellington Arch in London.

Other French arches more closely imitated those of imperial Rome ; the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris, for instance, is closely modelled on the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome.

Towards the southern end of the avenue would be a triumphal arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but again, much larger ; it would be almost a hundred metres high, and the Arc de Triomphe ( at the time the largest triumphal arch in existence ) would have been able to fit inside its opening, evidently with the intention of replacing the rather long history associated with this Arch and in particular the unique ceremonies, with reference to the history of France, connected with it, see the French government website on this history.

The monument is inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which in turn is inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus.

The Arc du Carrousel inspired the design of Marble Arch, constructed in London between 1826 and 1833.

Washington Square Arch, constructed of white Tuckahoe marble ( Westchester marble ), was modeled by White on the Arc de Triomphe ( 1806 ) in Paris ( itself modeled on the Arch of Titus ).

It is also called Patuxai Arch or the Arc de Triomphe of Vientiane as it resembles the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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