Place de la Concorde
In Place de la Concorde’s original plan, a horseman’s monument to King Louis XV was commissioned in 1748 by the merchants of Paris, meant to mark the king’s recovery from a serious illness. The architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel laid out the site, and the square was finished by 1772 as an octagon with a twenty-metre-wide moat-like border, flowerbeds, and stone bridges. At 7.6 hectares—about 19 acres—it became the largest square in Paris, though its layout and symbolism were repeatedly reshaped. During the French Revolution, the square hosted public executions of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Maximilien Robespierre, and it was temporarily renamed the Place de la Révolution. It received the name Place de la Concorde in 1795 as a gesture of reconciliation. Even now, a metro station at the northeastern corner serves Lines 1, 8, and 12, linking revolutionary history to daily urban movement. …
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