The Arc de Triomphe of the Carousel (in French Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel) is a monument dating from 1809, built by Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte). There are entries on each of its four faces. It is situated in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located in the Carousel Square, west of the Louvre Museum. Built in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte's Great Army between 1807 and 1809, the monument is located in front of the Louvre, on the esplanade that preceded the Tuileries (before the palace was burned in 1871). Celebrating the victory of the French armies at the Battle of Austerlitz,
The Arc de Triomphe of the Carousel (in French Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel) is a monument dating from 1809, built by Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte). There are entries on each of its four faces. It is situated in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located in the Carousel Square, west of the Louvre Museum. Built in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte's Great Army between 1807 and 1809, the monument is located in front of the Louvre, on the esplanade that preceded the Tuileries (before the palace was burned in 1871). Celebrating the victory of the French armies at the Battle of Austerlitz, the Arc de Triomphe, designed by Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, illustrates the campaign of 1805 and the capitulation of Ulm in 1807. He explicitly refers to the Arches of the Triumph of Roman Empire and, notably, the Arch of Settimius Severus in Rome. The themes of the bas-reliefs depicting the battles were chosen by the director of the Napoleonic Museum (at the time in the Louvre), Vivant Denon, and designed by Charles Meynier. The chariot, crowning the bow, is a copy of the Bronze Horses of Constantine I, a couple embellishing the upper part of the main door of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. In fact, upon returning from the First Italian Campaign (1796-1797), the French army, commanded by the General of the "Army of Italy," Napoleon Bonaparte, brought from Venice (1798) the original sculpture as "war treasure" and put it on the monument. It was surrounded by two "victories" from 1808. In 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo and the fall of Emperor Napoleon I, France delivered the chariot to the Austrians who soon returned it to the city of the doges, recently annexed to the Empire By the Congress of Vienna. The copy is then executed by the sculptor François Joseph Bosio in 1828. (Photo: Vanessa Carvalho / Brazil Photo Press)
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