The day that I went to the Louvre, Arc de Triomphe, and Eiffel tower, it was heinously windy. After I almost got blown off the sidewalk a couple of times I thought, "this can't be normal." When I got back to the hostel, I turned on the news and learned that there was a huge storm moving across Northern Europe with hurricane force winds. Twelve people had died, and Northern Germany was considering shutting down its trains.
Oh.
Place de la Concorde: looking Southwest. Lamppost, Obelisk, Eiffel. Cloudy. Bird.
Walk out the pyramid doors of the Louvre, go Northwest through Tuileries garden, and you come to the Place de la Concorde. This is the place where King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette had an encounter with the guillotine. Now the Place is kind of a grand entry point to the Champs-Elysees, the shopping street in Paris. Walk a mile down to the end of the Champs, and you get to the Arc de Triomphe. It's the biggest triumphal arch in the world, apparently, and was built by Napoleon (big surprise).
Arc de Triomphe
I look.
Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc. Napoleon had his funeral here but, of course, he wasn't "unknown." This tomb was set up after WWI.
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