Paris

On the Place de l'Etoile raises itself, in the form of vault, the Triumphal arch. His financier, Napoleon, wished a monument to commemorate the glory of the French army. The names of his victories remained engraved in the stone of the monument.
The Arc de Triomphe also contains the grave of the unknown soldier, the symbol of thousands of soldiers killed on the front during the first world war. Since 1923, every November 11th, the Flame of the Memory on the grave of the unknown soldier was symbolically relit by war veterans and soldiers.

In 1769, the Duke of Chartres, future Duke of Orleans, made build close to the village of Heap a "folie". The drauwer and author of Carmontelle comedies, helped of a landscape designer Thomas Blaikie, created an imaginary garden with false Gothic ruins, a Dutch mill, a Tartar tent, a pagoda, an Egyptian pyramid... The garden was a place of curiosities in the open air revealing the attractions of nature and civilization. October 22, 1797, it is in this park that the first parachutist of the history, A. Garnerin sprang since a montgolfier.

In 1860, at the time of the fastening of the village of Heap in Paris, half of the park was sold to the Péreire brothers by the town of Paris in order to build private mansions.
Second half was refitted in landscaped garden by Alphand on behalf of the Haussmann prefect, and was issued park. Along the its quiet alleys, the park preserved beautiful statues, its Egyptian pyramid - work of Carmontelle -, its Naumachie...
The park also has many infrastructures for young people: swings, toboggans, vats with sand, cycle tracks...

The temple built as a monument to the Great Army was commissioned in 1806 by Napoleon from the architect Barthelemy Vignon after the construction of the church had been successively taken up by Contant d'Ivry in 1794 on the model of St Louis des Invalides, then by Couture on the model of the Pantheon, before being interrupted between 1790 and 1806.
This stout Greek Temple was constructed in the dimensions required by the Emperor and is supported by Corinthian columns of 30 meters high.

During the restoration the building became a Catholic church.
The interior is richly decorated and includes Napoleon amongst the saints of Christian history.
Around the church, on every day except Monday, there is a superb flower market.
A vestige of art deco not to be missed - the public toilets on the corner of the Boulevard de la Madeleine!

Set up as 1889 by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the World Fair, the speedboat of which she was, the Eiffel Tower, of its 350 metres high, stays the up Paris in the edges of the Seine.