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 ( in English: " Triumphal Arch ") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces.

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

* 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

Méliès began hand-tinting his work as early as 1897 and the 1899 Cendrillion ( Cinderella ) and 1900 Jeanne d ' Arc ( Joan of Arc ) provide early examples of hand-tinted films in which the color was a critical part of the scenography or mise an scene ; such precise tinting used the workshop of Elisabeth Thuillier in Paris, with teams of female artists adding layers of color to each frame by hand rather than using a more common ( and less expensive ) process of stenciling.

The Force was also given the honour of marching in the victory parade under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Third Reich | German troops by the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, after the Battle of France | 1940 fall of France.

It is often compared to a miniature version of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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.

Like many elements in Belgian folklore, this is mainly based on the French " La Marseillaise " which is also both an anthem and the name of a monument-the sculptural group Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, commonly called " La Marseillaise ", at the base of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

In Paris, the Sousa Band marched through the streets including the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe – one of only eight parades the band marched in over its forty years.

* September 8 – Joan of Arc leads an unsuccessful attack on Paris and is wounded.

Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at the National Front ( France ) | Front National's annual tribute to Joan of Arc in Paris ( 1 May 2007 )

Other scenes around Paris include numerous shots of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Pyramid, and a phonebooth near the Arc de Triomphe where Meg calls her now former mother-in-law.

A famous example is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

Numerous circular junctions existed before the advent of roundabouts, including the Bath Circus world heritage site completed in 1768, the 1907 Place de l ' Etoile around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the 1904 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, and several circles within Washington, D. C., however, the operating and entry characteristics of these circles differs considerably from modern roundabouts.

( 1841 – 47 ) Procès de condamnation et de réhabilitation de Jeanne d ' Arc dite La Pucelle, Paris: Renouard.

In his next race, Nijinsky was sent to France for the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris in October.

The avenue runs for 1. 91 km ( 1. 18 mi ) through the 8th arrondissement in northwestern Paris, from the Place de la Concorde in the east, with the Obelisk of Luxor, to the Place Charles de Gaulle ( formerly the Place de l ' Étoile ) in the west, location of the Arc de Triomphe.

The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris's 10 km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense.

The free concert, titled simply Paris la Defense, attracted two million spectators, stretching all the way back to the Arc de Triomphe.

It is, with the Arc de Triomphe de l ' Étoile and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, the third arch on the Axe historique of Paris.

The conventional 20th-century view has been that Edward did die at Berkeley Castle, either murdered on Isabella's orders or of ill-health brought on by his captivity, and that subsequent accounts of his survival were simply rumours, similar to those that surrounded Joan of Arc and other near contemporaries after their deaths.

Thus there came about the research for " Le problème de Cauchy pour les équations différentielles d ' un fluide général "; the idea that Prof. Hironaka called " the Nash blowing-up transformation "; and those of " Arc Structure of Singularities " and " Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data ".

One of those stage works, Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ( 1935 ), a " dramatic oratorio " ( to words by Paul Claudel ), is thought of as one of his finest works.

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.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris or Nelson's Column in London contain no names of those killed.

Director Victor Fleming's name was also billed before those of the actors in films such as The Wizard of Oz, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Joan of Arc.

The Scotia Arc is the island arc system that links the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula to those of Tierra del Fuego.

His more important monuments are those to Admiral Courbet ( 1890 ) at Abbeville and the famous Joan of Arc.

Most of those were in Fort Driant ( Feste Kronprinz ) and Fort Jeanne d ' Arc ( Feste Kaiserin ).

She removed Charles from his parents ' court and kept him in her own castles, usually those in the Loire Valley, where Charles received Joan of Arc.

After the Monaco Cup Arc, Azuma ceases to attach numbers to his Ja-pan ( Ken stated that it's because all those before are mere trial products ).

* Cascade Volcanic Arc, a geological grouping of volcanoes, including those in the Cascade Range but also some in the Coast Mountains