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Avenue des Champs-Élysées
was the setting for the victory
parades following the two World
Wars, and for the bicentennial
parade in 1989 (p124). CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
AND INVALIDES

Metro Champs­
Élysées­Clemenceau
Locator Map
For more detail see p118
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Strolling through the
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P X Lit by natural light, Petit Palais is as
E much a work of art as the wide­
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Pont Alexandre III’s four
columns help to anchor the piers
that absorb the immense forces 0 metres 100 N
generated by such a large
single­span structure (p124). 0 yards 100
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