Chapter 389: Champs-Élysées

Leaving the Iron Lady, Ye Chao went to the Champs-Élysées.

The Champs-Élysées, also known as the Elysées Country Street, is considered by the French to be "the most beautiful street in the world".

The Elysée is a famous street in the city of Paris, which is inspired by the Greek myth of "fairy sight".

According to a common French saying, she is considered the most beautiful street in Paris. THE ÉLYSÉE DES CHAMPS ELYSEES IS TAKEN FROM THE GREEK MYTH OF "FAIRY IN MYTHOLOGY", AND ITS FRENCH WORD IS AVENUE DES CHAMPS ELYSEES.

CHAMPS MEANS PASTORAL, AND ELYSEES MEANS "ELYSIUM" OR "LESHI", SO SOME PEOPLE JOKINGLY CALL THIS STREET A STREET OF "WALLS" AND "HAPPY LAND", AND THE FRENCH DESCRIBE IT AS "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STREET IN THE WORLD".

It runs through the east-west arterial road of Paris, the capital of France.

The street stretches from the Place de la Concorde in the east to the Star Square in the west, with a total length of 1,800 meters and a maximum width of about 120 meters. The name of the street, Champs-Élysées, means idyllic land in French.

Originally a low-lying and damp vacant lot, it was reforested during the reign of Louis XIV in the 17th century, and became a forbidden area for the nobles of the court.

Later, it was extended westward from the east-west axis of Tuleri Park, and nearly 1 km of forest was built. Later, it was expanded. In 1709 it was officially named Champs-Élysées. It was taken over by the City of Paris in 1828.

The whole street is bounded by the north-south Lombouan Street, and is divided into two sections with different styles: the eastern section is 700 meters long, reflecting the quiet rural scenery, and the western section is more than 1,000 meters long, which is the downtown area. At the west end of the street, there is an obelisk of the Egyptian temple of Luxor, and at the east end of the star-shaped square, there is a majestic triumphal arch.

On both sides of the western section of the forest** are the most prosperous department stores, fashion stores, big banks, cinemas, bars, cafes, nightclubs, etc.

Nearby the street are the Palais Bourbon, the Tulery Park, the Louvre, the Madeleine Cathedral, the Élysée Palace and the Municipal Building. Some of France's major festivals are also centered on this street.

The Champs-Élysées is located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in the northwest of the city.

Starting from the Place de la Concorde, with its obelisk on it, the avenue stretches from east to west for 1,915 meters, with the first half of the street being flat, followed by a section of the ascent to the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly known as the Place de l'Etoile, located at the top of the high ground where the Palais de Chaillot is located), with the Arc de Triomphe in the center of the square.

Her straight streets allow us to see far away: the Louvre and its pyramids, the Arc de Triomphe, the Tuile Gardens, the Obelisk, the Arc de Triomphe, and, farther to the west, the Grand Arch de Fanse outside Paris.

This is the axe historique to the west of Paris. The Champs-Élysées is one of the main tourist attractions in Paris. The first half of the Champs-Élysées is surrounded by green spaces (Carré Marigny) and some buildings (Théétre Marigny, Palais de la Découverte).

On its heights, there are many luxury shops and performance venues (cinema, Lido, Champs-Élysées), as well as many famous cafes and restaurants (Fouquet's).

The merchants on the boulevard formed the Champs-Élysées Committee, which was formed in 1860 as the Champs-Élysées Guard and Promotion Association, which was changed to its current name in 1980. The main purpose of the committee is to maintain the reputation and image of the Great Road.

In order to achieve its main thrust, the committee supervises the local government to investigate the decoration (lighting, interior and exterior decoration, etc.) and commercial activities (opening hours, which can be opened for longer than the rest of France), and it is also responsible for helping new shops to integrate and make sure that they are in line with the image of the boulevard.

Because of its fame and lavish pomp, it is naturally expensive to open a shop on the Champs-Élysées. Housing prices are so high that few people live here, and most of the places above the first floor are used as offices.

The price of opening a shop here is not the same, for example, the north side has more sun hours, and the windows are not blocked by the shadow of the building like the south side, so the rent is much higher.

Every year, on July 14, the French National Day, the President of France attends a military parade on the Champs-Élysées.

The Champs-Élysées is also the traditional finish of the final stage of the Tour de France. On the last day of the year, the Champs-Élysées becomes a pedestrian street where people celebrate the New Year.

The 1,180-metre-long western section of Avenue Élysée is a place of merchants, and the modest streets are lined with large companies, big banks, airlines, cinemas, high-end shops and restaurants from France and around the world. On this street, there are more than 50 cinemas and film distribution companies alone, famous ones such as "Gaumun", "Paris", "Chauhan V", etc.

Every day, the latest films from France and the world are released here. There are many newspapers and magazines here, and more than 30 newspapers and magazines have settled here, such as "Paris Match Illustrated", "She", "Salute", "Alliance", "Leici", etc.

The world's major companies are vying to use it as a window to show their strength to the world.

European brand-name automobile companies such as "Renault", "Bairu", "Citroen", "Mercedes-Benz" and "Fiat" have set up automobile exhibition halls here; Japanese "Sony", "Seiko" and other famous brand companies have set up specialty stores here; Air France, Aeroflot and many other airlines have opened ticket offices here; and high-end fashion stores, leather shoe stores, jewelry stores, luggage stores, and perfume shops are lined up one after another.

Nightclubs, cabarets and cafés are dotted here, and Lido, one of the three largest nightclubs in Paris, is located here.

All this, together with the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde, attracts tourists from all over the world. "Wandering musicians", "street painters", and "street performers" also add a strange atmosphere to this street.

More than a thousand meters, not difficult to walk.

After Ye Chao walked through, he felt that a street could be made so beautiful by the French, and then, he was earning money from the people of the world every day.

French, also very good at playing.

Also, the Arc de Triomphe de lions in Paris is located at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.

As the name suggests, the Arc de Triomphe is a gate that welcomes the triumphant armies who go out to war.

It is the largest round arch in the world, located on the roundabout in the center of Paris, on the Place Charles de Gaulle.

This square is also built with the Lion Triumphal Arch, because after the completion of the Arc de Triumph, it brought inconvenience to the traffic, so in the middle of the 19th century, a circular square and 12 roads were built around the Arc de Triomphe, each road is 40~80 meters wide, radial, like the brilliant light of the stars.

Therefore, this square is also called Star Square.

Also known as the "Porte de l'Etoile", the Arc de Triomphe is located at the end of the famous Champs-Élysées.

The Arc de Triomphe was originally designed by Chageland and Raymond, but due to disagreement, Raymond resigned two years later, so the Arc de Triomphe was finally completed according to Chagrand's design, and was maintained and managed by the French National Centre for Monuments.