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StevoTrip2006 Monday, October 23, 2006
Le Arche de Ridiculousle Grande
On the Monday in Paris, after going to the Disney exhibition, I headed out to La Defense. This is basically the corporate bit of of Paris, and is the most un-Parislike bit of the city I went to. Instead of the four and five storey buildings orderly arranged along interconnecting boulevards that define the centre of Paris, La Defense is the best of the twentieth century: various randomly placed, diversely sized and haphazardly designed builings scattered along each side of the axis that extends all the way down to the Louvre (via the Arc De Triomphe). That is the reason I was out there: the Grand Arch De La Defense (roughly translated: "The Grand Arch of Defense.") It's a crazily huge arch that terminates the other end of the Louvre / Champs Elysees / Arc De Triomphe vista. The Arch itself houses offcie buildings (can't have a grand civic gesture that doesn't pay the rent) and they say that Notre Dame would fit under the arch - which is the kind of thing that's always good to know, in case you ever need to put it there.   |
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