21 rue Saint Didier, 75016 ParisHotel Etoile Trocadero Paris
3 star hotel, walking distance from The Trocadero square, The Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees.
34 avenue de Wagram, 75008 ParisHotel Ceramic Elysees Paris
3 star hotel with its famous ceramic facade at walking distance from the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees.
68 rue de Longchamp, 75116 ParisHotel Longchamp Elysees Paris
3 star hotel at the Trocadero, enterly renewed and located between the Champs Elysees and Eiffel Tower.
Place de la Concorde
As with a number of Paris monuments, the Place de la Concorde has seen many modifications over time. Conceived in 1748 to celebrate - of all things - Louis XV getting over an illness - it was only finally finished 24 years later, by which time the king was probably feeling much better. Ironically, two just two years later he died from smallpox.
Initially called Place de la Revolution, many people were guillotined here over the years including - famously - Marie-Antoinette in 1793.The obelisk that stands at the centre was given to France in 1831 by the then viceroy of Egypt. Over 3,000 years old, it was erected in front of a crowd of 200,000 people and marked the beginning of a ten-year transformation of the Place which would see the addition of the two now-famous fountains - recently renovated - and a series of monumental columns.Although full of traffic during the day, it’s at night that the Place de la Concorde impresses most. Illuminated, with its view up the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower sparkling in the distance, there’s no place on earth quite as magical.
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from the 2010-03-11 until the 2010-09-12
Beat Takeshi Kitano
Gosse de peintre
Upon the invite of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, he has dreamed up an original exhibition on childhood. Come and discover this virtuoso’s creations in his paintings, films, incongruous objects, sets and terrific fantasy machines.
Takeshi Kitano, a.k.a. Beat Takeshi, is a famous film-maker, actor, TV presenter and painter whose entire work explores a bitter-sweet world marked by nostalgia for childhood.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris
Metro Line 4 or 6 : Denfert Rochereau
