THE "GREAT WHEEL OF PARIS," NOW DEFUNCT, HERALDED
A GENERAL EVOLUTION
Installed at place de la Concorde from the 1980's to 2018
in itself it was spectacular...
...but the booths at its foot blocked Louis XIV's groundbreaking perspective...
...while the theme song on its web site was so triumphantly insignificant — "les CHAMPS!!! Élysées" — that it insulted the Avenue's grandeur.
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In 2014 the City refused to renew the lease. A bland composition
replaced the pop tune.
Joyful music from the Sun King's court
would have emphasized the avenue's grandeur.
Instead the authorities allowed the insipid.
Were those changes a compromise,
refusing the small stalls
but not confronting the multinationals
whose wares dominate the avenue now?
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