Avenue des Champs-Elysees



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The Avenue des Champs-Elysées is the best known avenue in France, and possibly in the world.
It stretches for just over a kilometre in length from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde.
In 1667, King Louis XIV ordered his landscaper Le Notre to plant chestnut trees to extend the royal road
from the gardens of Les Tuileries. By the Revolution the Avenue was well known. The Place de la
Concorde was the setting for the guillotine.