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Place de la Concorde
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synonyms: Place de la Révolution ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:Located at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées it is the largest public square in Paris. It is most known for the prominent prisoners executed there during the revolution, including Marie Antoinette, Madame du Barry, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just and Olympe de Gouges.
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Anyhow they've got a lake in Pomerania that's ten times the size of the Place de la Concorde. I am treating her for dry arthritis; she's a charming woman. Mme. Verdurin knows her too, I believe."
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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he read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile,
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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they rattle out of the yard of the Hotel Bristol in the Place Vendome and canter between the sun-and-shadow-chequered colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli and the garden of the ill-fated palace of a headless king and queen, off by the Place of Concord, and the Elysian Fields, and the Gate of the Star, out of Paris.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House
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