Menu: 3.1.3. Design inconceivable elsewhere
THE "GRAND AXIS" PROCLAIMS INFINITE ROYAL POWER
It links the Louvre palace to the horizon, a layout that demolishing the rampart permits.
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Fichot lithograph, 1855, cover of Les Belles Heures des Champs-Elysées by Marc Gaillard (Martelle Editions), n.d. |
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| The Axe Historique in Paris - View from the Jardin des Tuileries / zoom |
Multinationals' skyscrapers replace the horizon.
To grasp its extent, view the Louvre palace from the other side of the river...
Or from a helicopter:
Claude Abron
Origins:
- The space that leads to the royal tombs.
- The street that leads to the first royal place.
- Henri IV's innovations? (Please scroll down)
In brief
- Urban effects of tearing down the rampart
- Demolishing the protective wall announces hegemony
- An arc heralds three centuries of calamity
- Now the arcs hover over the traffic...
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Accounts often miss the extraordinary band
that can only be seen from above.
But its political message is a key to European history
and its adoption by future capitals
makes its influence planetary.
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Urban effects of tearing down the rampart
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