The Place de la Concorde, that is the biggest place in Paris, is located along the Seine and separates the Tuilerie Gardens from the start of the Champs Elysées. It is inside the 8th arrondissement, or district, of the city.
The place was constructed to hold an equestrian sculpture of Louis XV that the city of Paris commissioned in 1748 from Bouchardon to offer to the king. The place formed an octagon bordered by large moats that no longer exist. In contrast to older places that had been closed, La Place de la Concorde, mainly open, served as an intersection as well as a ornament. If you are looking for an accommodation near if that place you can louer appartement Paris.

It became the Place de la Révolution and held in its center the guillotine that executed in particular Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, Robespierre, and 2800 others between 1793 and 1795. It is said that the smell of blood was so strong that a herd of cattle refused to cross the place. After the Revolution it suffered a succession of transformations and several changes of name: place de la Concorde, place Louis XV again, place Louis XVI, place de la Chartre, and once again place de la Concorde to represent the end of a troubled era and the hope of a better future. To visit Place de la Concorde, you need a locations Paris

The place nowadays maintains the general appearance that it had in the eighteenth century. The sculpture of Louis XV, removed for the duration of the Revolution, was replaced by the Obelisk of Luxor given by the viceroy of Egypt, Mohamed Ali, to Louis Phillipe. The obelisk, 22.83 meters far above the ground and weighing 230 tons, which marked the entrance to the Amon temple at Luxor, was installed in 1836. On all corner of the octagon is found a sculpture that represents one of the large French cities: Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Brest and Rouen.
The place is delimited to the north by l'Hôtel Crillon and l'Hôtel of the Navy Minister that frames the rue Royale, to the east by the Jeu de Paume and L'Orangerie of the Tuileries, to the west by the beginning of the Champs Elysés then to the south by the bridge of the Concorde constructed by Perronnet between 1787 and 1790.