The Most Famous Avenue Of Paris
April 19th, 2010 by TK
The Champs-Elysees was initially fields and market gardens, until 1616, when Marie de Medici decided to expand the garden axis of the Palais des Tuileries by means of an avenue of trees.
Guillaume de L’Isle’s map of The french capital shows that a short stretch of roads and fields in addition to market garden plots [...]
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