The Place de la Concorde, located in the center of Paris, on the north bank of the Seine River, is the most famous square in France, built in the 18th century by order of King Louis XV. It was built in the 18th century by the order of King Louis XV. It was named "Place de la Concorde Louis XV" in order to show the world his supreme royal power. During the Revolution, it was called the "Place de la Révolution" and was used by the French people as a stage to demonstrate the destruction of the king's power. 1795 it was renamed the "Place de la Concorde", and in 1840 it was refurbished to this size. The square is octagonal in shape, in the center of which stands the Egyptian obelisk, which was presented to Charles V by the Viceroy of Egypt. The obelisk is carved out of a single block of pink granite and is covered with Egyptian hieroglyphics celebrating the achievements of the Egyptian pharaohs. The square is surrounded by eight statues, symbolizing the eight major cities in France.
Basic introduction Chinese name: Place de la Concorde Foreign name: Place de la Concorde à Paris Geographic location: Paris, France Covering an area of about 84,000 square meters Open time: open all day Admission price: no ticket Famous attractions: Madeleine Church? Place de la Concorde fountain? Egyptian Obelisk? City statue Affiliated country ：France Affiliated city ：Paris Suggested playing time ：Half an hour Suitable playing season ：All seasons Must read before you go,Scenic spot introduction,Key information,How to get there,Attractions beautiful pictures,Practical information,Transportation information,Main attractions,Origin of the name, Practical information Admission information The square is free of charge, the Ferris wheel on the square is open only in winter, opening time and charges vary from year to year. The Ferris wheel on the square is open only in winter, and the opening hours and fees are subject to change every year. Safety Tips Paris is not a safe place to visit, so please pay attention to your safety and don't be alone when traveling at night. Transportation Information Concorde Square is located in the middle of Champs Elysees in Paris, take the MRT line 1.8.12 to Concorde station, and you can walk to Concorde Square from the Louvre. Main Attractions The Place de la Concorde has always been a stage for real historical dramas. In the past, people used to come here to watch the horrors of the Revolution, but now they come here to experience the development of history and the changes of the city. Standing in the center of the square, you can see the wide Champs Elysées idyll, the Arc de Triomphe at the end of the road, the famous National Assembly building on the left and right, the Bourbon Palace (le Palais Bourbon) and the Madeleine Cathedral (la Madeleine). During the Louis-Philippe era (1835-1838), the architect Hittorf was commissioned to complete the planning and construction of the square, and in deference to the original idea of the square's architect, Jacques-Ange Cabrière, Hittorf added the railings and the following buildings around the square. City Statues On each side of the square stand eight statues representing the eight largest cities of France in the 19th century, Rouen and Brest in the northwest, Lille and Strasbourg in the northeast, Bordeaux and Nantes in the southwest, and Marseille and Lyon in the southeast. The Stallion of Marly Standing at the entrance to the Champs-Elysées, it was originally sculpted by the sculptor Coustou for the garden of the Sun King Louis XIV's departure palace in Marly-le-Val. Louis XIV decided to build himself a more private palace than Versailles in the small town of Marly-le-Vallois, fifteen kilometers west of Paris, and the designer created a vast garden of fountains and sculptures, which was transported from the gardens of the Marly-le-Vallois palace to Paris in 1794, where the statue was placed on the Place de la Concorde. The statue that stands on the Place de la Concorde today is a replica, while the real one is kept in the Louvre. Place de la Concorde Fountains Between 1835 and 1840, the Place de la Concorde was enriched by two fountains with magnificent scenes, and by a number of richly decorated monuments. The monument, decorated with the bow of a ship, is a symbol of the city of Paris. The two fountains were intended to reflect the French maritime and river navigation technology at that time. In fact, these two fountains are only a replica of the fountains in St. Peter's Square in Rome, the north side of the square is the river god fountain (La Fontaine des fleuves), the south side of the square is the god of the sea fountain (la fontaine des mers). Each side has a three-tier fountain, fountain on the six exquisite bronze carving mermaids, each holding a fish in the hands, from the mouth of the fish out of a few meters high water columns, splash, like a floating yarn. Fountain from a distance like a reverse a positive two giant butterflies, in fact, the two fountains are two groups full of fountains and day and night long spray of large groups of sculpture. Each fountain spout are too many to count, in the round pool, a group of larger than life naked goddesses holding golden carp, dolphins, etc. along the pool in a circle, fish, dolphin's mouth have a Yang high meters of fountains to the center of the fine sculpture of the slanting, the center of the group of sculpture on the spout more, or upward, or downward spray, a million fountains spraying the landscape. Concordia Square fountain "River God Fountain" in the center of the upper and lower groups of sculpture to the river is the main, the upper layer is a few *** young, people love the cherubs playing in the water, the lower layer is a larger than life of the three postures of the upper half of the body ***, with a green robe of the nymphs surrounded by beautiful Rhine Goddess, they are embracing grapes, they are the Goddess, they are embracing grapes, they are embracing grapes, they are embracing grapes, they are embracing the beautiful Rhine Goddess. Goddess, they are embracing grapes of the harvest fairy, holding flowers of the love fairy and a symbol of sweet fruit fairy. The magnificent Rhine Goddess and their leaning on a column decorated with golden reliefs sitting in a circle, the column is covered with reliefs on the saucer-shaped nozzle, the reliefs on the nozzle by a circle of golden heads of the gods, each head of the two sides are carved with a flow of grooves, like the flow of the head of the long hair. "God of the sea fountain" design, form and "river god fountain" is no different, only all the characters of the dynamic is not the same. The three fairies are the pearl fairy, shell fairy and coral fairy with the ocean, the main god is the male Atlantic god of the sea. Egyptian Obelisk Square stands in the center of a 23-meter-high, more than 3,400-year-old Egyptian obelisk, which was presented to France in 1831 by the Egyptian Governor Muhammad Ali (Muhammad Ali), the monument body of the ancient text recorded the deeds of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses. Transporting the 23-meter-high, 230-ton obelisk, which was carved from a single piece of giant, intact, rose-colored granite, was a major undertaking. The journey from Luxor, Egypt, to Paris, France, was a heroic and unprecedented one. The obelisk finally arrived in France in October 1836, after two and a half years at sea. Louis-Philippe erected the obelisk on the Place de la Concorde as a symbol of his political neutrality between the royalists and the **** peace party. Carved more than 3,000 years ago, the obelisk has stood on either side of the gateway to the Temple of Thebes in Luxor, Egypt, along with its twin, an identical obelisk. Three lines of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are inscribed vertically on the body of the obelisk, recounting the stories of Pharaohs Ramses II and Ramses III. When the obelisk was placed, another function was developed: it became the needle of a giant sundial, and the Place de la Concorde became the "sundial surface". Every day, as the sun shifts and the earth turns, the obelisk silently casts time on the Place de la Concorde, and little by little, time is silently condensed into history. Obelisk Madeleine Church Napoleon intended to use this place as the place for his wedding ceremony, but failed to do so due to the dissolution of the marriage contract and became a permanent regret. To the south is the French National Assembly building. To the east is the Tuileries Gardens and the famous Louvre, and to the west is the Champs Elysées, known for its opulence and luxury. Origin of the name The name "Place de la Concorde" has a history of discord, even a bloody history. The original name of the Place de la Concorde was "Place Louis XV", and the statue of Louis XV on horseback in the center of the square shows the power of his reign. The square was built on the order of Louis XV, the King of France at the time, to demonstrate his centralized rule and the supremacy of royal power, but during the French Revolution, it was used by the French people as a stage for destroying the power of the King, and a human tragedy known to the world was staged in the square. The Place de la Concorde was designed in 1755 by Jacques-Ange Gabriel, a royal architect who worked at the court of Louis XV at the time, and was completed in 1775 after twenty years of work. Gabriel first designed a prototype octagonal square for the Place de la Concorde, 360 meters long and 210 meters wide, with a total area of 84,000 square meters. In order to obtain a perspective view, he chose a different plan from those of the royal squares that had been built in Paris. He designed the Place de la Concorde as an open square: one can see the dancing leaves of the Tuileries Gardens from afar, and look down on the ripples of the Seine. At either end of the square, two other masterpieces by Cabrière, the headquarters of the French Navy and l'Hotel Crillon, drew the finish line of the Place de la Concorde. 1778, in the Hotel Crillon in Paris, which became a high-class hotel, France had concluded the Franco-American Alliance and the Treaty of Commerce and Friendship with the United States of America, and had recognized the independence of the United States of America. However, during the French Revolution in 1789, the statue was toppled by the revolutionary people and converted into a guillotine, renamed the "Place de la Révolution". During the Reign of Terror between 1792 and 1794, the **** and the army executed some 1,100 members of the royal family and royalists, including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, in this square. The guillotine on the Place de la Concorde, which ended their lives, is said to have been the "brainchild" of King Louis XVI, who had his head cut off by the guillotine. It was originally designed as a "humane, quick and painless execution". Louis XVI would never have thought that he was also designing his own death when he came up with the idea for the guillotine. There is a legend that the smell of blood was so strong that a herd of cows passed by and stopped, not wanting to pass through the area and took a detour. Robespierre, the actual head of the Jacobins during the French bourgeois revolution in the 18th century, who sentenced Louis XVI to death, is also a dramatic figure in French history. He had resigned from the bench because of his opposition to capital punishment, and then during the Revolution he was a strong advocate of capital punishment for the execution of King Louis XVI. After the execution of Louis XVI, he was no longer satisfied with the trial of members of the royalist party, and he eliminated all those who did not agree with him absolutely. Danton became a victim of this purge. The head of the Nouvelle Régime was executed on April 5, 1794, in the Place de la Concorde, also at the instigation of Robespierre. More than a year after the execution of Louis XVI, in August 1794, Robespierre, who had contributed so much to the French Revolution, was finally guillotined on the Place de la Concorde. Was there really a karmic retribution? Just like Louis XVI when he designed the guillotine, Robespierre never expected that he would bear the same fate as Louis XVI when he announced the death sentence of Louis XVI. This is history. It cannot be predicted, it cannot be influenced, it cannot be rewritten. There are amazing coincidences in history, those who make history can no longer see it, but those of us who write history can see it very clearly: Louis XVI, Danton, Robespierre, these three men, who had grasped the destiny of France, died under the same executioner, on the same square. When the square was rebuilt, in order to commemorate the end of the war years, to meet the wishes of the people praying for peace, the "Revolutionary Square" was renamed "Concorde Square".