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Worldvisitguide > Places > Carrousel Garden > Monument(s) and Building(s) > Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel Section 1 on 1 Carrousel Garden Monument(s) and Building(s) Catégories Monuments et édifices Periode : between 1807 and 1809 Artist : François Joseph Bosio Charles Percier Pierre-François Léonard Fontaine Sponsor : Bonaparte ( Napoléon) Area related : Paris Ier Subway station : Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre, Tuileries The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, France. It is located on the Place du Carrousel, just to the west of the Louvre. See the tabloid Classification by : names artists type periods History    The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, France. It is located on the Place du Carrousel, just to the west of the Louvre. continue... History    Édifié en hommage à la Grande Armée de Napoléon Bonaparte entre 1807 et 1809, le monument est situé devant le palais, sur l'esplanade précédant l'aile des Tuileries (avant qu'elle ne brûle en 1871). Célébrant la victoire de l'armée française à Austerlitz, l'arc de triomphe, dessiné par Charles Percier et Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, illustre la campagne de 1805 et la capitulation d'Ulm en 1807. Durant la Nuit Blanche 2007 l'artiste Arnaud Prinstet a projeté son autoportrait sur le monument. Description    Designed by Charles Percier and Pierre Léonard Fontatine, the arch was made between 1806-1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I on the model of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome. It was commissioned to commemorate France's military victories in 1805. It was originally surmounted by the famous horses of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, captured by Napoleon, but these were returned to Venice in 1815. They were replaced by a quadriga sculpted by Baron François Joseph Bosio, depicting Peace riding in a triumphal chariot led by gilded Victories on both sides. The composition commemorates the Restoration of the Bourbons following Napoleon's downfall. The highest arch is flanked by another two smaller ones. Around its exterior are eight Corinthian columns of granite, topped by eight soldiers of the Empire. In the attic between the soldiers, bas-reliefs depict : - the Arms of the Kingdom of Italy with figures representing History and the Arts - the Arms of the French Empire with Victory, Fame, History and Abundance - Wisdom and Strength holding the arms of the Kingdom of Italy, accompanied by Prudence and Victory. Napoleon's diplomatic and military victories are commemorated by bas-reliefs executed in rose marble, depicting the Peace of Pressburg, Napoleon entering Munich, Napoleon entering Vienna, the Battle of Austerlitz, the Tilsit Conference, and the surrender of Ulm. Reliefs also decorate the arches. The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is at the easternmost end of the so-called "Axe historique" ("grand historic axis") of Paris, a nine-kilometre-long linear route which dominates central and western Paris. Looking west, the arch is perfectly aligned with the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe and (although it is not directly visible from the Place du Carrousel) the Grande Arche de la Defense. The axis thus begins and ends with an arch. At the time the Arc du Carrousel was made, however, Place du Carrousel fronted the central block of the Palace of the Tuileries, whose long range blocked off the axial view which originally began from the Tuileries' central garden axis on the farther, west-facing side. When the Tuileries Palace was burnt down in the Paris Commune of 1870 and its ruins swept away, the present great axis was opened. 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