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Arc de Triomphe |
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Arc de TriompheArch at the head of the Champs Elysées in the Place de l'Etoile, Paris, France, begun by Napoleon in 1806 and completed in 1836. It was intended to commemorate Napoleon's victories of 1805-06 and commissioned from Jean Chalgrin. Beneath it rests France's ‘Unknown Soldier’. |
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| Tristram lived behind one of those chalk-colored facades which decorate with their pompous sameness the broad avenues manufactured by Baron Haussmann in the neighborhood of the Arc de Triomphe. |
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