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The Place de la Concorde (French: [plas də la kɔ̃kɔʁd]; lit. ' Harmony Square ' ) is a public square in Paris , France . Measuring 7.6 ha (19 acres) in area, it is the largest square in the French capital.
The 6 February 1934 crisis (also known as the Veterans' Riot [1]) was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris, organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the building used for the French National Assembly. The police shot and killed 17 people, nine of whom were far-right ...
Concorde (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃kɔʁd] ⓘ) is a station on Lines 1, 8, and 12 of the Paris Métro. Serving the Place de la Concorde in central Paris, it is located in the 1st arrondissement. The station, along with Tuileries and Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau were closed from 17 June to 21 September for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
De La Concorde station is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is served by the Saint-Jérôme line . The station replaced Saint-Martin station , a commuter rail station that had been 1.65 km (1.03 mi) to the north, in order to be intermodal with the new Montreal Metro station, operated by the Société de ...
It had been planned since 1755, when construction of "place Louis XV" (now "place de la Concorde") began, to replace the ferry that crossed the river at that point. Construction continued in the midst of the turmoil of the French Revolution, using the dimension stones taken from the demolished Bastille (taken by force on 14 July 1789) for its ...
Fontaines de la Concorde (detail) Water for the fountains was supplied by the canal de l'Ourcq, begun by Napoleon at the beginning of his reign. The original fountains had no pumps and operated by gravity- water flowed from the basin at La Villette, where the water of the canal arrived in Paris, at a higher elevation than the Place de la ...
Lithuania's Dominika Banevič known as Nicka, Japan's Ami Yuasa known as Ami, and China's Liu Qingyi known as 671 at La Concorde in Paris, on Friday. Usually the Place de la Concorde is a busy ...
The Rue Royale (French pronunciation: [ʁy ʁwajal]) is a short street in Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place de la Madeleine (site of the Church of the Madeleine). The Rue Royale is in the city's 8th arrondissement. Rue Royale following Commune destruction. Photograph by Alphonse Liebert, 1871.