. Twenty centuries of Paris . e of the focal points ina panoramic view of the city. It is a majesticfinish to the vista of the Champs Elysees seenfrom the Place de la Concorde. Although manydifferent forms of decoration have been suggestedfor the top of the arch, and some have even beentried by models, none has been found satisfactory,and the great mass remains incomplete. Though France had returned fom its Rev-olutionary wanderings and once again had anestablished religion, and though the Emperorwent to mass as regularly as his army dutiespermitted, there was practically no building ofnew chu
. Twenty centuries of Paris . e of the focal points ina panoramic view of the city. It is a majesticfinish to the vista of the Champs Elysees seenfrom the Place de la Concorde. Although manydifferent forms of decoration have been suggestedfor the top of the arch, and some have even beentried by models, none has been found satisfactory,and the great mass remains incomplete. Though France had returned fom its Rev-olutionary wanderings and once again had anestablished religion, and though the Emperorwent to mass as regularly as his army dutiespermitted, there was practically no building ofnew churches by Napoleon. It was a sufficienttask to repair the mutilations of the church of Sainte Genevieve—the Pantheon—was consecrated in the early years of the Con-sulate. In 1806 the construction of the Made-leine, which had been begun some sixty years be-fore, was renewed, not, however, as a church, butas a Temple of Glory. Before it was finished theRestoration had come and had turned it into achurch TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF THE CARROUSEL.
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