Paris / Arc de Triomph

The day after visiting the Eiffel tower (description below) we walked down the Champs Elyse (pronounced "Chomps Eleesay") and down to the Arc de Triomph (in other words, the Arch of Triumph) on Place de l'Etoile.
It was designed for when the French soldiers were victorious after a war, they were meant to walk under it, except, they never had a victorious war and I prefer to call it the Arc de "wouldn't it be nice if we had a" triomph. Here is a photo of me with the Arch in the background.

The Unknown Soldier was buried beneath the Arch in 1921 and was decorated with the Legion d'Honneur in the prescence of the British Prime Minister and the entire Frnch Government.

There was a flame of rememberance lit for him on the 11th of November 1923 and has never been extinguished since.

The Arch is 50 metres high to the top, 45 metres wide and the height from the ground to the bottom of the arch is 29 metres. It has foundations that are 8 metres deep to keep it stable especially on the soily ground. Its weight is 100,000 tonnes, which is 10 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower.

Once we had gotten the tickets to go up, "yes, you have to pay" we got to the bottom of the stairs and looked up! In this photo the cameras flash did not go off and was less of a picture than it should have been! The stairs just kept going! This veiw is coming down.
When we got to the top we circled around the Arc de "wouldn't it be nice if we had a" Triomph's veiwpoint. From there we could see the Eiffel Tower and the fact that every single road would eventually wind up heading toward the Arc. Here is a photo from the top.
When we got down, we discovered that it was a magnificent shrine like building and is the second most identifiable landmark in Paris.

The day after, we walked around the Place de la Concorde which is a huge obelisk and we walked around "Old Paris" which was a huge compact of all the things they had in Paris in the 1800s. The last thing we did in Paris was watch Spider-man 3 which was in English but had French subtitles so I ignored the subtitles. The only thing is that I haven't seen the first two, but I understood everything just as well.