Arc de Triomphe (monument)
The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile anchors the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, where twelve avenues radiate from a star-shaped intersection. Commissioned to honour those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it carries the names of French victories and generals engraved on its inner and outer surfaces. Designed in 1806 by Jean-François Chalgrin and built in limestone, the monument rises to 49.54 metres—until 1938, it was the tallest triumphal arch in the world. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I, set under an eternal flame for unidentified fallen soldiers, turning an 19th-century monument into a 20th-century memorial. In the same lineage as Rome’s Arch of Titus, its full dimensions reach 44.82 metres wide and 22.21 metres deep, with the large vault soaring to 29.19 metres. …
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