Champs-Élysées

thumb|Avenue des Champs-Élysées The Champs-Élysées Avenue des Champs-Élysées is a world-famous Avenue (landscape) avenue in Paris. A Tourism in Paris major tourist attraction known for theaters, cafés, and luxury shops, the avenue runs from the Arc de Triomphe in a southeasterly direction to the Place de la Concorde. Quotes The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is one of the most prestigious and expensive streets not only in Paris, but the world. The avenue runs for 2 kilometres (1.25 miles) through the !3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47e66fc4f8007851:0x5aa1a787f38f64f6!8m2!3d48.8729602!4d2.2978526!16zL20vMGpkNGo?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D runs in a southeasterly direction] from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde ==Quotes== The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is one of the most prestigious and expensive streets not only in Paris, but the world. The avenue runs for 2 kilometres (1.25 miles) through the {[w 8th arrondissement of Paris 8th arrondissement and has been a fashionable avenue since the late 18th century. It was the Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin Duke of Antin who pursued the Grand Cours or ‘Perspective’ from the Tuileries up to the Colline de Chaillot mound of Chaillot (Butte de Chaillot) fr where the Arc de Triomphe now stands. In the 18th century, the promenade was bordered with trees formally planted in a straight line and English gardens were laid out on each side, from the Place de Concorde up to the Rond-point_des_Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault Rond Point des Champs-Elysées fr. The name was adopted in 1709 and derived from the Elysian Fields, a place of final resting for the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology. “Les Champs” (as the Parisians called the avenue) is a glamorous thoroughfare cutting through Paris’ most exclusive district where tourists, strollers and businessmen mingle. Xavier Deroy & Stewart Clegg, How to preserve the identity of the Champs Elysées? December 2011 25th Annual ANZAM (Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management) Conference 2011, held in Wellington, New Zealand (anzam.org) https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/569_ANZAM2011-324.PDF (quote from p. 8 of 34 pages) Towards three o'clock, the four couples, wild with happiness, were running down to the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Folie Beaujon Beaujon fr, and the serpentine line of which might have been perceived above the trees of the Champs Elysées. Victor Hugo, https://books.google.com/books?id=zkiigfPgRBEC&pg=PA88 88 Les Misérables Volume 1 of 2 Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1994 9781853260858 (528 pages; introduction & notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury; translated in 1862 by Charles Edwin Wilbour) American writer Ernest Hemingway had close links with Paris. He first lived there in 1920 and played a marginal, much-mythologised, role in the 1944 liberation of the city. But now, 70 years on, memories of the author are starting to fade. ...On 25 August 1944, the day of the German surrender, he entered Paris with the Americans from the west. With battle smoke marking the skyline, he careered down the Champs-Elysees to the Travellers Club — still there today, next to Abercrombie and Fitch — and ordered a bottle of champagne. Hugh Schofield, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28951095 Why Paris is forgetting Ernest Hemingway 2 September 2014 BBC News, Paris André Le Nôtre André Le Notre, Louis XIV Louis XIV the Sun King’s gardener, first designed the wide promenade lined with a double row of elm trees on each side, called the Grand Cours.It was renamed the Champs-Élysées in 1709 and extended, and by the end of the century had become a popular place to walk and picnic. Kim Willsher, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/paris-approves-plan-to-turn-champs-elysees-into-extraordinary-garden-anne-hidalgo 10 January 2021 The Guardian Paris agrees to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden'. Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to £225m-scheme to transform French capital’s most famous avenue External links http://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/paris08/le_quartier_champs_elysees.htm paris1900.lartnouveau.com Le Quartier des Champs Élysées - Paris 8e Category:Paris Category:Streets