#Champ-de-mars

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Filles du ciel

La nouvelle épopée de Michel Moutot nous offre de découvrir les merveilles de l'ingénierie française à la fin du XIXe siècle, de l'édification de la statue de la liberté à celle de la Tour Eiffel, en passant par le viaduc de Garabit. Un bonheur de lecture

  En deux mots Envoyé aux États-Unis pour aider à ériger la statue de la liberté, Philibert Boucher va briser le cou d’une jeune indienne avant de regagner la France où un nouveau chantier l’attend, celui de la Tour Eiffel. Ce qu’il ignore, c’est que Tëme, l’oncle de la jeune fille est sur ses traces, missionné pour venger sa nièce. Ma note ★★★★ (j’ai adoré) Ma chronique De Miss Liberty à la Dame…

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Nouvelle attaque contre le Palais national

La tension a atteint son paroxysme au Champ-de-Mars dans l’après-midi du lundi 22 avril 2024, lorsque les forces de l’ordre ont été confrontées à une nouvelle attaque de bandits armés contre le Palais national d’Haïti. Cette violente confrontation est intervenue peu après la visite de Leslie Voltaire, représentant de Fanmi Lavalas au Conseil présidentiel, accompagné de Himmler Rébu, spécialiste…

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Willy Ronis - Champs de Mars, Paris

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Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan working out together in LA

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Juergen Teller "I love Paris"

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Champ de Mars…

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Towing on the Champ-de-Mars, Paris  France  1943  (photo: Robert Doisneau)

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Air hostesses of the airline Trans World Airlines, in Paris on the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in 1958. (Photo Loomis Dean for Life Magazine)

Air hostesses of the airline Trans World Airlines, in Paris on the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in 1958. (Photo Loomis Dean for Life Magazine)

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The Grande Dame,View from de Champs de Mars   -   Marie France Garrigues , 2022..

French, b. 1958   -  

Oil , 30 x 30 cm.

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Bonjour, Champ de Mars! ۪۫❁ཻུ۪✾⚘༉

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I liked "When the King Took Flight" by Timothy Tackett, but he absolutely chickened out at even mentioning the allegations about Gilbert being in any way involved in the Champs de Mars mess. Which is extra funny, because Tackett kind of hints that Champs de Mars was "the beginning of the Terror".

What I'm saying is that we totally missed on the "Gilbert started the Terror" implication.

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Robert Delaunay (1885-1941): 1) “Champs de Mars: The Red Tower” (1911/1923), oil on canvas, 128.6 x 160.7 cm, and 2) “La Ville de Paris” (1912), oil on canvas 406 x 267 cm.

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Avan Jogia on his Instagram story (with his brother Ketan)

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Hi!First of all, I'm glad I have found your page: Lafayette is one of my favourite historical characters and following a so well organized blog like yours really satifies my hunger for knowledge about him.I wanted to ask you whether you could enlighten me about what happened during the Camp de Mars massacre.I've read somewhere,he explicitly ordered his men to attack the civilians.Other sources claim, a soldier was wounded by the people and so the troops started shooting. What happened exaclty?

Dear @faxelange,

first of all; thank you so much for your kind words, such comments truly make my day. :-)

What happened exactly during the Champ de Mars massacre? Well, nobody can say for certain. I have written a long post here (that I have to edit one fine day sincere there is one sentence that is less critical than intended), trying to present the viewpoints of both sides, but there is very little that can be said with absolute certainty.

In short, we do not exactly know what really happened that day but even if we assume the absolute “best” scenario, La Fayette still stands as a weak leader who had no control about his armed guard and could not prevent the death of innocent people. What we do know is that the National Guard under La Fayette’s command fired at the crowd, and that people were wounded and killed. I can not imagine La Fayette giving the command in cold blood to kill the people in assembly – but I can imagine that La Fayette, fearing for his man, the life of the present officials and for his own life, gave a rash command in the heat of the moment, a command that he had not thought through and that he later regretted. In his first official statements, La Fayette his relatively vague what his exact orders were and as the years passed, his statements did not exactly become clearer – a fact that did not help the matter at all.

I know that this is a bit of an unsatisfying answer, but I hope you can still make some use of it. I hope you have/had a wonderful day!

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Paris

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel