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Champs-Élysées and was
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.
The traditional finish was on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
When Offenbach asked Rossini's permission to revive his comedy Il signor Bruschino, Rossini replied that he was pleased to be able to do anything for " the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées ".
The 2007 lighting of the Champs-Élysées was very successful, with lighting tubes which acted like snow falling from the trees.
The Place was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1755 as a moat-skirted octagon between the Champs-Élysées to the west and the Tuileries Gardens to the east.
Moreno was replaced by Robert Manuel, and the first performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris went ahead as planned on 11 December 1968.
Instead, she began taking singing lessons, and was booked as a cabaret act on the Champs-Élysées, which proved successful.
When the ballet was first performed, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience.
That performance was part of a series of " Concerts Monteux ", presented between February and April 1914, in which Monteux conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in a wide range of symphonic and concertante works, including the concert premiere of the orchestral version of Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.
It was designed by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig in the 1860s and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as Vienna's Ringstrasse or the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Rather than a palace, for it was not a royal seat of power, the French termed it a maison de plaisance overlooking the Seine, facing the Tuileries to the east and the developing Champs-Élysées on the west.
Prior to World War I, La Argentina was extremely admired in Paris, where she accepted invitations to dance at the Moulin Rouge, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and other important locations.
By the end of the year she was conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with a programme of Bach, Monteverdi and Schütz.
The line 9 station opened when the line was extended from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin on 27 May 1923 and was called Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, or just Rond-Point.
It was the southern terminus of line 13 until its extension to Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau on 18 February 1975.
She also sang the British national anthem on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in 2012 after Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France, though her performance was not universally appreciated.
" Brooklyn Boy " also began life at the Pacific Playwrights Festival, in 2003, and was produced at South Coast Repertory, on Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre, and in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Élysées.
Ten years earlier, he had become acquainted with the musician Offenbach, who was about to start a small theatre of his own in the Champs-Élysées, and he wrote a sort of prologue, Entrez, messieurs, mesdames, for the opening night.
Wide Elysian Fields Avenue, named after the Champs-Élysées in Paris, was designed to be the main street of the Faubourg Marigny.
Hungária Boulevard was built from 1980 to 2000 and it is the widest ( 70 meters, like Champs-Élysées ) and longest ( 13 kilometers ) boulevard in Budapest with six to ten traffic lanes and a rapid tram line.
Coty, Inc., was a French perfume company created by François Coty, proprietor of Le Figaro, the French daily newspaper headquartered on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.
The speech was followed a day later by a victory parade down the Champs-Élysées when some German snipers were still active.
The most memorable of these was his victory on the Champs-Élysées in Paris where he won by a huge margin ; almost 30m, with his own lead out man, Mark Renshaw having enough time to come in 2nd with his arms raised.

Champs-Élysées and originally
It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle ( originally named Place de l ' Étoile ), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.
Today the exposition's sole physical remnant is the Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées designed by architect Gabriel Davioud, which originally housed the Panorama National.

Champs-Élysées and gardens
In Paris, the Champs-Élysées retain their name of the Elysian Fields, first applied in the late 16th century to a formerly rural outlier beyond the formal parterre gardens behind the royal French palace of the Tuileries.
From its terrace it is possible to admire a panoramic view all along the Champs-Élysées with the Arc de Triomphe, the obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the gardens of the Tuilleries and the Louvre beyond.

Champs-Élysées and when
Unfortunately, Nijinsky's new trends in dance caused a riotous reaction at the Théâtre de Champs-Élysées when they premiered in Paris.
Huge and spontaneous gatherings occasionally take place on the Champs-Élysées in celebration of popular events, such as New Year's Eve, or when France won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Champs-Élysées and de
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.
The parade passes down the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde, where the President of the French Republic, his government and foreign ambassadors to France stand.
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.
One of the principal tourist destinations in Paris, the lower part of the Champs-Élysées is bordered by greenery ( Carré Marigny ) and by buildings such as the Théâtre Marigny and the Grand Palais ( containing the Palais de la Découverte ).
The Champs-Élysées ends at the Arc de Triomphe, built to honour the victories of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Champs-Élysées in 1890, viewed from the Place de la Concorde.
By the late 18th century, the Champs-Élysées had become a fashionable avenue ; the bosquet plantings on either side had thickened enough to be given formal rectangular glades ( cabinets de verdure ).
The Champs-Élysées, because of its size and proximity to several Parisian landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, has been the site of several notable military parades, the most infamous being the march of German troops celebrating the Fall of France on 14 June 1940, and the two most famous, the subsequent marches of Free French and American forces after the liberation of the city, respectively, the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944, and the U. S. 28th Infantry Division on 29 August 1944.
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.
Traditionally home to popular brands, as well as luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss, Lancel, Guerlain, Lacoste, Hôtel de la Païva, Élysée Palace and Fouquet's, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées confirms its world-class appeal as a prime real estate location: it has lately seen the opening of new big upscale shops such as the biggest Adidas store in the world.
Since 1975, the last stage of the Tour de France has finished on the Champs-Élysées, with riders typically making six to eight circuits back and forth on the avenue, with a furious final sprint.
Station Charles de Gaulle – Étoile is at the street's west end, and there are three stations with entrances on the street itself ; from west to east these are: George V by the Hôtel George-V, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the rond-point des Champs-Élysées, and Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau at place Clemenceau.
* Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, an avenue inspired by Champs-Élysées
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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.
On one occasion he even flew an airship early one morning to his own apartment at No. 9, Rue Washington, just off Avenue des Champs-Élysées, not far from the Arc de Triomphe.
The ensemble played the leading Paris theaters, such as Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, and the Bernhardt Theatre, as well as other playhouses throughout the world.
It is also the location of many places of interest, among them the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde, as well as the Élysée Palace, official residence of the President of France.

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