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The strange story of the Triumphal arch in Paris and Georges-Eugène Haussmann

Arc de Triomphe Picture I https://kirjabloggaus.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa As we all know there are many stories about the famous persons and famous buildings. In the middle of Paris is the monument, what is called the Arc de Triomphe, what is called as Triumphal arch in this text. The monument is like the box, what is open for the four dimensions. And there is one very bad story about this monument. The architecture in Paris is basing the idea of the very wide streets and boulevards, what makes difficult to make barricades, and they would give the soldiers the ability to crush the rebellions. Haussmann was not the architect of that building, but this man could use it in his own plans, for creating the new version of Paris after the Communards rebel in 1871, but the modernization of the city began in 1852, and Haussmann left the place in 1870. But in this case, I believe that this movement from the position was because Haussmann's name wanted to keep clean in this...