This great square was originally designed by Gabriel to be a present from the people of Paris to King Louis XV, at that time known as Louis the Well-Beloved. He created a 21-acre octagon surrounded by a dry moat, with a statue of the King in the centre. At intervals around the moat were statues representing the chief towns of France, and the centre of the square was reached by four bridges. Amusingly, the squatters of Paris soon discovered that the pedestals of the statues were hollow, and they moved in, hanging out washing and growing vegetables in the moat. In 1770, however, the crowd in the square panicked during a firework display held to celebrate the wedding of the King's son. 133 people were crushed to death in the moat, which had to be filled in.
During the Reign of Terror the Square's name was changed from Place Louis XV to Place de la Révolution, and 1,343 people were guillotined there, starting with Louis XVI. After that, the square was given its present name (Concord means Peace and Harmony), and the bridge across the river was built with stones taken from the demolished Bastille. In the reign of Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) the square was completed by an architect named Hittorff, who added the fountains and brought from the ruined palace of Marly the statues at the entrances of the Tuileries gardens ('Winged Horses' by Coustou) and the Champs-Élysées ('Horse-tamers' by Coysevox). The Obelisk in the centre of the square was a gift to the people of France from Mohammed Ali, Pasha of Egypt. It is 3,300 years old and weighs 2,200 tons. Around the base of the obelisk, which came from the Temple of Luxor, are carvings representing the machines used to bring it to Paris and set it up (Cleopatra's needle, you may remember, was both broken and lost at sea on its way to London, so the French engineers had something to crow about).
The two vast buildings to the North of the square are part of Gabriel's original plan. The Western one, now the Hôtel Crillon, was originally palaces for several noblemen; the other, now the Navy Ministry, was the royal furniture store. The Kings, you see, had about fifty palaces and châteaux; rather than keep them all furnished all the time, they kept the furniture in a central store and sent it out as needed.
Place de la Concorde - painting - was created in 1875.
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Yes. It was constructed in 1763. First it was called Place Louis XV with a statue of Louis XV placed on it. During the revolution, the French tore down the statue and renamed the Place de la Concorde to Place de la Revolution. Facing the former statue of Louis XV, the French also placed a guillotine on the Place de la Revolution and thousands of people died there during the revolution. Nowadays it is called the Place de la Concorde and on the spot where the guillotine used to be, there is now an obelisk (the Obelix de Luxor). It was placed there in 1836.
1.119 people were executed on Place de la Concorde, including the French King Louis XVI and the Queen Marie-Antoinette. The prominent revolutionists Danton and Robespierre, the scientist Lavoisier were also guillotined there.
Place de la Concorde - painting - was created in 1875.
It is a monument to the 1830 Revolution against Charles X. It is located at the Place de la Bastille.
place de la Concorde is often visited about 8,554,746 times or more
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In Place de la Concorde, the Obelisk of Luxor; in Place Charles de Gaulle, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile.
Between 'place de la Concorde' and 'place Charles-de-Gaulle - Étoile', there is the Avenue des Champs-Elysées.
It is called the Place de la Concorde. It was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1755 and it was then called the Place Louis XV and it had a statue on it of Louis XV (then King of France). During the revolution the statue was torn down and the place got a new name: Place de la Revolution. After the reign of terror (but still during the revolution, in 1795) it got the name it still has today: Place de la Concorde (concorde = peace).
On the former Place Louis XV which was baptized Place de la Revolution during the revolution. After the revolution the place was renamed "Place de la Concorde" and it is still named that way today.
On Place de la Revolution, now called Place de la Concorde.
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The Place de la Revolution known now as the Place de la Concorde.
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