THE IMPERIOUS AVENUE DE L'OPÉRA HIGHLIGHTS THE MONUMENT, AS STRAIGHT LINES HIGHLIGHTED SYMBOLS OF MONARCHY
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| Neige à l'avenue de l'Opéra de Camille Pissaro, 1898 / zoom |
The Avenue de Paris leads the eye to the chateau de Versailles.
It was designed to connect the Opéra with the Tuileries palace and where official parades took place until World War I:
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The Tuileries burned and that tie has been forgotten.
Place de l'Opéra too adapts the monarchs' template: It is a public space toward which straight streets converge, homogeneous architecture surrounds it and the edifice itself replaces the statue of the king.
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| Claude Abron |
The edifice is associated to Napoleon III
as Versailles is to Louis XIV.
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