Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Emperors Vanity

Napoleon never believed in half measures. When he planed monuments to his glory they had to be bigger than the Roman ones he that inspired him. Here the Arc du Carrousel



Arc de Triomphe, the gigantic monument originally dedicated to the victory of Austerlitz, dwarfs (twice the size of the largest Roman arches) all previous victory arches.

 

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