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Itinerary of the stroll
The Walk from Louvre to Concord-Square is far from the crowded streets, but still in the very center of Paris. It passes through the Jardins des Tuileries, but also through Place-Vendôme, the home of haute joaillerie and luxury watchmaking.
Promenade Louvre to Place-de-la-Concorde, a haven of peace in a dynamic neighborhood
The Walk from Louvre to Concord-Square is located slightly west of the geographical (and historical) center of Paris.
We’ve chosen to start our walk just outside the Musée du Louvre. After a few hours in the always-busy Louvre, it can be relaxing to take a leisurely stroll through the Jardins des Tuileries, crossing the Carrousel and Tuileries gardens from east to west before reaching the Place de la Concorde (Concord-Square). All the more so as this walk leads to a number of shopping addresses.
Along the promenade: 16 points of interest
The starting point at the Louvre is exceptional. The arrival point at Place de la Concorde is just as exceptional. But the 16 intermediate points of interest we’ve chosen are also worth a visit, some for their historical past (Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Jardins des Tuileries, Palais des Tuileries), their topicality (Carrousel-du-Louvre, Musée des arts décoratifs including its fashion, textile and advertising departments), luxury and jewelry (Place Vendôme). Plus 2 historic columns along the way: the Colonne Vendôme (Place-Vendôme) and the Obélisque de Louxor (Place-de-la-Concorde)!
The end of the walk, on the historic Place de la Concorde
The end of the walk from the Louvre ends at Concord-Square. It’s a short stroll of 600 m as the crow flies, bringing back to life the vanished Palais des Tuileries, and making a detour to Place Vendôme, the center of luxury jewelry and watchmaking.
But this end of the walk can open up other perspectives
This walk is located in the immediate vicinity of the luxury districts of Paris. Of course, the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, which ends at Place de la Concorde too, and a few hundred meters away, there is Avenue Montaigne. From the same Place de la Concorde runs the Rue Royale, which cuts 200 m from, the Rue de Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. And Rue de Rivoli runs alongside the Jardins des Tuileries. These are all addresses of luxury and fashion, with the great French and international names all to be found here.
For information: our shopping lists for luxury districts
Our self-guided walks to guide you through these streets
We have other self-guided walks available that link directly with this Louvre Walk to Place-de-la-Concorde:
So, if you follow our various walks, you can start at the Tour-Eiffel, then pass through the Palais de Chaillot, join the Arc-de-Triomphe, walk down the Champs-Elysées, through the Jardins des Tuileries, arrive at the Louvre, visit the historic heart of the Cité-de-Paris, then return to the Musée Pompidou, cut through the Marais to reach the Bastille! Quite a program!
Our walks in Montmartre
In a similar vein, we’ve programmed an exhaustive tour of Montmartre, in the form of 3 walks:
Relaxation breaks” that go hand in hand with the walks on offer
And that’s not all: we’re in the process of compiling “Pauses détente” lists from the shopkeepers you come across as you stroll through the streets of Paris. Our aim is to provide you with a list of reliable, rated merchants (URLs) from which you can make your purchases (gifts, coffee, meals, or shopping) in complete confidence. These will be “specialized” itineraries linked to the routes of our walks. We call these addresses “Relaxation Breaks”: coffee breaks, restaurant breaks, and so on. Much remains to be done. Apart from “Magasins des Champs-Elysées: liste de 100 commerces à visiter”, we also have at your disposal:
Palais du Louvre
rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 39″ N | 2° 20′ 09″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86107 | 2.33572 |
Access
It is possible to access the Louvre Museum from the Gare du Musée d’Orsay (on the other side of the Seine river).
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Long before the Louvre Museum, the Louvre was a fortress begun in 1190 by King Philip Augustus. It was transformed over several centuries:
In 1981, “the Grand Louvre” was one of the major works decided by President Mitterrand. The Richelieu wing (to the north, on the rue de Rivoli side), then still occupied by the Ministry of Finance, became part of the museum. The ministry is transferred to its current location, quai de Bercy. The surface of the museum increases from 30 000 m² to 55 000 m².
We suggest the “Pyramid of the Louvre” (see below) as a starting point for walks “from the Louvre”.
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Your walk begins without having to walk: the next stop is the Louvre Pyramid, in the middle of the Cour Napoléon, right in front of you.
Pyramide du Musée Louvre
Cour Napoléon
75001 Paris
Architectes : Leoh Ming Pei for the Pyramid and Michel Macary for the Carrousel du Louvre
Coordinates Pyramide du Louvre (Main museum entrance) – Cours Napoléon, Paris 75001
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 40″ N | 2° 20′ 09″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86108 | 2.33580 |
Access
It is possible to access the Louvre Museum from the Gare du Musée d’Orsay (on the other side of the Seine river).
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From 1981 to 1999, the Louvre palace underwent major modernization work, known as the Grand Louvre. The Pyramid was a part of the modernization.
The Pyramid-of-the-Louvre is a pyramid made of glass and metal, located in the middle of the Cour Napoléon of the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is the main entrance to the museum. It was inaugurated by the President of the Republic François Mitterrand on March 4, 1988 (2 months before the presidential elections of 1988!) and a second time on March 29, 1989 by the same President Mitterrand. But the works were finished only 4 years later in 1993. Who knows why to make 2 inaugurations “in advance”?
The decision to build this Pyramid was the subject of a battle of influences: first the choice of a Sino-American architect and then the shape of the proposed building, modern in a historical context.
The technology used is new and also daring. The metal structure of the Pyramid-of-the-Louvre that supports the glass cladding is made of steel and aluminum and weighs 200 tons. It consists of a steel structure weighing 95 tons and an aluminum frame weighing 105 tons.
In the end, not one but 5 pyramids were built, one of which was inverted (the one above the Carrousel du Louvre).
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To continue your walk: a visit to the Louvre. See the following Point of Interest for general information on the Louvre Museum.
Louvre Museum
9 rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Coordinates Pyramide du Louvre (Main museum entrance) – Cours Napoléon, Paris 75001
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 40″ N | 2° 20′ 09″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86108 | 2.33580 |
Access
It is possible to access the Louvre Museum from the Gare du Musée d’Orsay (on the other side of the Seine river).
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The Louvre became a museum on August 10, 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings. The to day Musée du Louvre contains more than 380,000 objects and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments, with more than 60,600 square meters (652,000 sq ft) dedicated to the permanent collection.
The Louvre Museum offers a chronology from Antiquity to 1848 and a geographical area extending from Western Europe to Iran, via Greece, Egypt, and the Near East.
The Louvre Museum has eight departments: Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities (Recently Renovated), Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Arts, Sculptures, Works of Art, Paintings, and Graphic Arts.
Almost all the works on display at the Louvre are available for consultation on the Internet.
The works in the Louvre Museum are varied in nature: paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, archaeological objects, and objets d’art, among others. Among the museum’s most famous pieces are the Code of Hammurabi (Babylonian legal text dated around 1750 BC, to date the most complete code of laws known from ancient Mesopotamia), the Venus de Milo, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, or the Victory of Samothrace restored in 2014.
In Paris, several national museums complement the Louvre’s collections, including the Musée d’Orsay (19th century) and the Musée du Jeu de l’Orangerie (mainly Impressionists).
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To continue your walk, walk 100 m north-west along the Cour Napoléon, towards the Arc-de-Triomphe du Carrousel and the Jardin des Tuileries.
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Place du Carrousel
75001, Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 43″ N | 2° 19′ 58″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86182 | 2.33282 |
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The Arc-de-Triomphe du Carrousel, is a monument inaugurated on August 15, 1808 by Napoleon 1st, on the place du Carrousel. It was right in front of the main entrance of the Tuileries Palace, now disappeared, burned in 1871 by the Communards.
The name Carrousel comes from a military horse show ( the Grand Carrousel), given in this place by Louis XIV, from June 5 to 6, 1662, on the occasion of the birth of his son Louis of France.
The monument was erected, between 1806 and 1810, in front of the Tuileries Palace to which it serves as the entrance of honor. It is a copy, in 3/4 scale, of the arch of Constantine (313-315 AC) in Rome.
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel has a height of 14.60 meters (45 feet) and its base is a rectangle of 19.60 meters (60 feet) by 6.65 meters (20 feet and a half). It is crowned by an imposing frieze in marble (Italian cherry), sculpted and engraved and the bas-reliefs illustrate the events of Napoleon’s 1805 campaign.
It is surmounted by the “Quadriga of the Arch of Triumph of the Carrousel” (4 horses in the center) harnessed to a chariot and surrounded by 2 gilded lead statues of Peace and Victory.
The 4 horses “Quadriga of the Arch of Triumph of the Carrousel” was the horses of Saint Mark, a carriage adorning the top of the main door of the Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice and coming from the sack of Constantinople by the Venetians. Napoleon then General brought them back in 1798 during his Italian campaign.
Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo, the original quadriga of the Venetians (which they had stolen from Constantinople) was returned to the Austrians who gave it back to Venice. It is today above the main entrance of the Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice. Finally a very long journey!
This means that what is seen today above the Arch of the Carrousel of Paris is a copy made in 1828,
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The next part of your walk is right in front of you, the Jardin du Carrousel.
Jardin du Carrousel
6 Av. du Général Lemonnier
75001 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 43″ N | 2° 19′ 55″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86202 | 2.33225 |
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The Carrousel garden is a space located east of the Tuileries garden, on the Louvre side, between the Marsan wing and the Flore wing of the Louvre Museum.
The Tuileries Palace burned down in 1871, razed in 1883 and never rebuilt, was located approximately where the Avenue du Général Lemonnier is today.
About twenty statues of the sculptor Aristide Maillol are spread in the garden since 1964. You can admire them while walking around. They are listed in our post “Carrousel Garden between Louvre and Tuileries, 20 sculptures by Maillol” with their geographical coordinates to facilitate your search.
Palais des Tuileries
Jardin des Tuileries
75001 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 44″ N | 2° 19′ 52″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86325 | 2.32561 |
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The Palais des Tuileries is a palace now destroyed whose construction began in 1564 under the impetus of Catherine de Medici. On this site were three tile factories established in 1372.
To sharpen your imagination, we have grouped 3 historical photos in the full post on the Tuileries Palace: before 1871, during and after the fire.
Enlarged under the successive reigns of the kings of France, it had a huge facade (266 meters long) and became a royal residence (Henri IV, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI or Louis XVIII), then an imperial one (Napoleon I and Napoleon III).
Its destruction is the result of an arson attack on May 23, 1871 by the Communards Jules-Henri-Marius Bergeret, Victor Bénot and Etienne Boudin. The ruins of the Tuileries Palace were destroyed in 1883.
Le Palais des Tuileries est un palais aujourd’hui détruit dont la construction commença en 1564 sous l’impulsion de Catherine de Médicis. A cet emplacement se trouvaient trois fabriques de tuiles établies en 1372.
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To continue your walk, go back a few metres to the Arc-de-Triomphe du Carrousel, then take Place du Carrousel in a north-easterly direction, opposite the direction towards the Seine. After 50 m, turn left into rue de Rivoli. About 60 m further on is the entrance to the shopping center, your next stop if you wish.
Carrousel du Louvre
99 rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Architect : Michel Macary
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 40″ N | 2° 20′ 07″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86272 | 2.33483 |
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In all three cases: enter the tunnel; at the traffic light at the lowest point of the tunnel, enter the central ramp marked
central ramp marked “Parc Carrousel Louvre”.
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Also as part of the changes brought about by the “Grand Louvre” project, an underground commercial space called the Carrousel-du-Louvre was created by Michel Macary (in reference to the nearby Place du Carrousel and above). It includes a historical and cultural space (with direct access to the Louvre museum and a 600-seat amphitheater of the Louvre School – Rohan amphitheater), a 10,200 m2 shopping mall, open on Sundays and with many big-name stores.
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Continue your walk and 70 m along rue de Rivoli, you’ll find the entrance to the Musée des Arts décoratifs.
Musée des arts décoratifs
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001 PARIS
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 46″ N | 2° 20′ 79″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86323 | 2.33316 |
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The 1981 Grand Louvre project also included the renovation of the Musée des Arts décoratifs.
It now includes a set of 4 complementary museums: Musée des Arts décoratifs (reference), the former Musée de la Mode et du Textile, the former Musée de la Publicité and the Musée Nissim de Camondo.
The main part of the museum is at 107 rue de Rivoli. It includes a library (107Rivoli Library) and a boutique (107Rivoli Boutique).
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On leaving the Museum, turn left 70 m along the road, still heading for Place de la Concorde, and turn right into Rue des Pyramides for 60 m, then left into Rue Saint-Honoré. Your next point of interest is 40 m away.
Église Saint-Roch
296 rue Saint-Honoré
Postal Address : 24 Rue Saint-Roch
75001 PARIS
Tél : 01 42 44 13 20
Architectes : Jacques Le Mercier, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Robert de Cotte
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 55 N | 2° 19′ 57″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86501 | 2.33241 |
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The Saint-Roch Church was built between 1653 and 1722 near the Tuileries Gardens. Note the absence of bell tower resulting from demolition works undertaken in the 19th century during the development of the passage Saint-Roch.
At the time of the French Revolution, this church was at the center of the fighting between factions, as shown by the facade riddled with impacts. Revolutionary groups, such as the Jacobin Club and the Feuillants Club, used to gather in the cloisters of the rue Saint-Honoré. The confrontations of that time are still visible.
It was also along this street that the vehicles that took the condemned from the Conciergerie prison to the Place de la Concorde where they were executed circulated.
Today, the Saint-Roch Church is the parish of the artists. Recently, quite a few funerals of them took place at the St Roch church.
Saint-Roch Church has always been the last resting place of personalities in history : André le Nôtre, Pierre Corneille, Fragonard, etc.
It still houses paintings and sculptures from convents destroyed during the Revolution. It is a kind of museum of religious art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Numerous concerts are organized on weekday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
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Continue along rue Saint-Honoré, still heading towards Place de la Concorde, until you reach rue de Castiglione. Turn right. Place Vendôme is 30 m away.
Colonne Vendôme
Place Vendôme
75001 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 52′ 03″ N | 2° 19′ 46″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86757 | 2.32954 |
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The Column Vendôme was erected by order of Napoleon 1st, from 1806 to 1810 to commemorate the battle of Austerlitz, then destroyed during the Paris Commune in 1871 before being rebuilt as we know it today. The column was named the column of the Grande Armée.
The dedicatory inscription, written in an antique manner, means “Napoleon Emperor Augustus consecrated to the glory of the Great Army this column formed of the bronze conquered on the enemy during the war of Germany, won under his command in 1805 in the space of three months“.
Its barrel, consisting of 98 stone drums (rings), is covered with a cast bronze facing of 1,200 cannons taken from the Russian and Austrian armies. This number is probably exaggerated by propaganda, historians count about 130 guns taken from Austerlitz. An interior staircase leads to a platform located under the statue at the top.
During the insurrection of the Paris Commune, which lasted from March 18, 1871, until the “Bloody Week” from May 21 to 28, 1871, the motivations became more radical. The column was finally knocked down on 16 May 1871, not without difficulty, 11 days before the Commune was crushed.
The re-construction of the Column Vendôme begun in 1873 and completed in 1875 – at the expense of the painter Gustave Courbet (whom he never paid). He was condemned because he was at the origin of the destruction of the previous one.
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To continue your walk, retrace your steps along rue de Castiglione, towards the Seine, until you come to a 100 m intersection with rue de Rivoli and the Jardin des Tuileries.
Jardin des Tuileries
Place de la Concorde
75001 Paris
Tel. +33 (0) 1 40 20 53 17
https://www.louvre.fr
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 44″ N | 2° 19′ 52″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86413 | 2.32831 |
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The Tuileries-Garden separates the Carrousel garden and the Louvre museum from the Place de la Concorde.
The Tuileries garden dates from 1564, at the same time as the Tuileries Palace starting construction. But from 1664, the Tuileries-Garden was entirely redesigned by André Le Nôtre, the famous gardener of King Louis XIV. A fountain, a menagerie and a grotto decorated by the famous ceramist Bernard Palissy decorate the garden. In the years 1605-1625, an orangery and a silkworm farm were added.
It is in 1783 that took place the first ascent of people in a gas balloon. A plaque, located today on the right when entering the garden, marks the memory of this event. During the Revolution, the Tuileries-Garden was the witness of the great events of which the palace itself was the theater, notably the “capture” of the Tuileries on August 10, 1792.
The rue de Rivoli was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century. Later during the development of the Quai des Tuileries, a supporting wall was built along the waterfront terrace. At the western corners of the garden, Napoleon III had two identical buildings built:
Over the years, many other events have taken place in Tuileries-Garden. The Tuileries Palace was destroyed by fire during the Paris Commune in 1871, in 1883, the ruins of the Tuileries Palace are razed, during the 1878 World’s Fair, Henri Giffard had thousands of people fly in a giant tethered balloon, during the First World War, 2 shell launched by the German cannon Grosse Bertha exploded in the Jardin-des-Tuileries and near the Orangery terrace, during the Second World War, a part of the Tuileries Gardens was transformed into a vegetable garden, on August 25, 1944, german General von Choltitz, commander of the “Groß-Paris” surrender after violent fighting. Captain Branet took the nearby Hotel Meurice, on rue de Rivoli, which was also the headquarters of the German occupation forces.
Eighty sculptures are exposed in the Tuileries-Garden. List and location on “Tuileries-Garden“.
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Stroll through the Jardin des Tuileries to enjoy the water basins, heading northwest. The total length of the Jardin des Tuileries is around 700 m. In this direction, you’ll automatically arrive at the Place de la Concorde.
Place de la Concorde
Quartier des Champs Elysées
75008 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 56″ N | 2° 19′ 16″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86515 | 2.32223 |
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The Concord Square, with 8.64 hectares, is the largest square in Paris.
The Concord Square is located a few hundred meters from the Louvre, at the bottom of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and adjoins the Jardin de Tuilerie. It is distinguished today by the Luxor Obelisk in its center, 3,300 years old (13th century with J-C) and erected in 1836 on Concord Square – See our article “Luxor Obelisk, Place de la Concorde, a present from Egypt“.
In the beginning of the 18th century, it was only an esplanade surrounded by a ditch and two large open sewers. Later (1770), it was the scene of a dramatic accident where 133 people died as a result of the panic caused by a fire stated by a falling rocket. It was in honor of the wedding of the Dauphin (the future Louis XVI) and the Archduchess Marie-Antoinette of Austria.
A few years later, during the Revolution, the Concord Square was one of the bloodiest places: 1 119 people died there out of the 2 498 guillotined in Paris. Among them, king Louis XVI and the queen Marie-Antoinette died on Concord Square.
Between 1836 and 1846, the square was transformed by the architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorff. He added two monumental fountains (which had the audacity to be made of cast iron) on either side of the Luxor obelisk and surrounded the square with lampposts and rostral columns. They also evoke the emblem of the City of Paris. Architecture surrounding the Concord Square, the monumental fountains and The statues add to its splendor.
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Enjoy the panoramic view of the Place de la Concorde and the balance of the buildings. The next part of your walk is already in front of you:
The Musée de l’Orangerie, at the corner on your left of the Jardin des Tuileries (Seine side). Point of interest 13
The Musée du Jeu de Paume at the opposite right-hand corner of the Jardin des Tuileries. Point of interest 15
The Luxor Obelisk in the center of the square. Point of interest 14
The Musée de Hôtel-de-la-Marine next to the Musée du Jeu de Paume. Point of interest 16
Musée de l’Orangerie – Orangerie Museum
Jardin des Tuileries (côté Seine – on the Seine side)
Place de la Concorde
75001 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | ||
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86435 | 2.32176 |
Architectes : Auguste Perret, Antoine Bourdelle, Henry Van de Velde
Interior decoration : Bourdelle (bronze and frescoes). Maurice Denis
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Orangerie museum is known for the Water Lilies of Claude Monet that it shelters. The Water Lilies cycle occupied Claude Monet for three decades, from the end of the 1890s, until his death in 1926, at the age of 86.
Orangerie museum also contains in its basement the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection, devoted to the great names of the 20th century: Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Soutine and a few others. They are paintings of the Impressionist (XIXe) and Modernisme (XXe) periods.
Outside of the building are also sculptures by Rodin and a few others.
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To continue your stroll: once you’ve left the Musée de l’Orangenrie, you can choose from the following points of interest, depending on the order of your visits.
Obélisque de Louxor
Place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 56″ N | 2° 19′ 16″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86522 | 2.32102 |
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The Luxor obelisk is part of a gift including 2 obelisks, the 2nd will never be brought to Paris. The gift to king Charles X and France of Mehmet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt, was made at the instigation of Baron Taylor and Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832 – the first to translate the hieroglyphics).
The donation of the Obelisk was made in early 1830. It was transported by a special barge called “Luxor” towed by the steamship and sailboat “Sphinx”. It finally arrived in Paris in 1834 after a stopover in Toulon and Rouen and the ascent of the Seine. It was erected on October 25, 1836.
Its weight is 222 tons. The stone base of 240 tons is from Brittany, western France, not Egypt.
Atop the Obelisk is a small pyramid called “pyramidion”. Also to be noted that the Obelissk is also a huge sundial: Roman numerals, lines are traced and metal inlays sealed on the ground of the Concord Square.
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To continue your walk, simply go to the other corner of the Jardins des Tuileries (on the buildings side), where you’ll find the Musée du Jeu-de-Paume.
Musée du Jeu de Paume – Jeu de Paume Museum
1, place de la Concorde, jardin des Tuileries
75001 Paris
Tél : 33 (0)1 47 03 12 50
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 57″ N | 2° 19′ 26″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86622 | 2.32320 |
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The today Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume was inaugurated on June 17, 1991. Without a permanent collection, the exhibitions are exclusively temporary and concern the art of the second half of the 20th century. In 2004, by ministerial decision, the Jeu de Paume became a museum devoted to photography and image, video art, experimental cinema and documentary film.
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Your last stop on this walk is a few meters from the Musée du Jeu de Paume, on the corner of Place de la Concorde and Rue de Rivoli.
Hôtel de la Marine
2 Place de la Concorde
Paris – 75008
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
Sexagesimal (°, ‘, “) | 48° 51′ 39″ N | 2° 19′ 49″ E |
Degré décimal (GPS) | 48.86667 | 2.32255 |
Architecte : Ange-Jacques Gabriel
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The Hôtel-de-la-Marine is a new museum inaugurated in June 2021, in a magnificent 18th century historic building. From its loggia, visitors have a breathtaking view of the Place de la Concorde. A “Garde-meuble de la Couronne” building under the old regime (the forerunner of today’s Mobilier national) and then the home of the Ministry of the Navy, the Hôtel de la Marine bears witness to the changes in France, from royalty to the present day.
The hotel was built between 1757 and 1774 to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from 1772. It was organized into three exhibition rooms:
The theft of the century, in the middle of the revolution! This theft took place during the week of September 11 to 17, 1792, over several days, by about forty people, in the chaos that reigned in this revolutionary period. Between 1792 and 1794, two thirds of the jewels were found, including the “Regent”, the “Sancy”, and most of the “Mazarins”. Some of the stones were permanently lost. The collection, deposited in the National Treasury, was estimated at 17 million pounds.
The decree of abolition of slavery was signed on April 27, 1848 by Victor Schœlcher, Under-Secretary of State for the Navy in the provisional government. This government was the result of the Revolution of 1848, which had driven King Louis Philippe I from power.
The proposed tours are special and original: the tours are done with the sound of the “Confident”, a connected headset that tells the story along the routes. Four audio tours are offered: three of 1h30 each and one of 45 mn, for immersive visits at the heart of more than 250 years of history of the monument:
The loggia adjoining the salons d’honneur of the Hôtel de la Marine, offers a breathtaking view of the Place de la Concorde, the Tuileries gardens, the Musée d’Orsay, the Grand Palais and the Eiffel Tower.
The Hôtel-de-la-Marine Museum will also host the Al Thani Collection from Qatar for the next 20 years, in parallel with a program of temporary thematic exhibitions. These presentations follow an agreement between the Centre des monuments nationaux and the Al Thani Collection Foundation.
The Al Thani Collection is among the most prestigious private collections in the world. It includes an exceptional group of works of art covering a long period from Antiquity to the present day. Encyclopedic in its approach and representative of a rich array of cultures and civilizations, the Collection celebrates the creativity and universal power of art through the ages. Previously, these works have been shown in temporary traveling exhibitions at major international institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Museum in Tokyo.
More on Hôtel-de-la-Marine Museum: available in English or in French
This walk from the Arc-de-Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde is now over.
We’d like to thank you for your confidence in us, and hope you enjoyed the walk to the full. Don’t forget that you can rest in the nearby Jardin des Tuileries before continuing on your way.
Or you can continue by visiting the Boutiques on Rue Royale (a few meters away) or Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Nonoré (150 m away) or Rue de Rivoli (30 m away). To find out more, see the last 3 paragraphs “Other lists of luxury shops near the Champs-Elysées” of this article by clicking on “Shops on the Champs-Elysées: list of 100 shops to visit“.
We wish you an excellent stay in Paris.