II.3.3.e. LOUIS XIV'S ARC LOOMS OVER THE ROUTE

HIS EARLY VICTORIES LED TO TEARING DOWN THE RAMPART AND BUILDING THIS ARC AT THE SAINT-DENIS GATE

(VICTORIES 1672, DEMOLITION OF RAMPART AND BUILDING OF ARC, 1674)

It hovers over the trade and pilgrimage route that led to the royal tombs. 

Carolyn Ristau

Rome's Arch of Constantine inspired it and it inspired New York's Manhattan Walkway:

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Built on the site of the gate...

Plan of Paris toward 1640 / zoom

...it trumpeted the lack of a protection that elsewhere was taken for granted: 

The Second Fall of Constantinople by Tintoretto, toward 1600 / zoom

Constantinople 

Rome

   By Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1922 / zoom

Moscow toward 1350

From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea by Louis Gustave Binger, 1892 / zoom

Sikasso (Mali), end 19th century

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Vienna in 1690

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New Orléans in 1812

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Marrakech toward 1840

 Demolishing the walls of Paris

stated that attacking the city was unthinkable,

trumpeting French domination.

To be continued.

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II.3.3.f.

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