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Luxor Obelisk, Place de la Concorde<br> Sightseeing in Paris picture - The Place de la Concorde lies at the eastern end of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées and was the site of the guillotine during the French Revolution. The obelisk dates to the 13th-century B.C. reign of the Egyptian pharoah Ramses II and once stood at the entrance to the Luxor Temple in the Valley of Kings. It was given to France by Egypt in 1831.
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The Place de la Concorde lies at the eastern end of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées and was the site of the guillotine during the French Revolution. The obelisk dates to the 13th-century B.C. reign of the Egyptian pharoah Ramses II and once stood at the entrance to the Luxor Temple in the Valley of Kings. It was given to France by Egypt in 1831.
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image -- 1726 x 1518)