I mean, there are plenty of war memorials to defeats. The Confederacy, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Hiroshima, the Irish risings of 1798 & 1916, etc. But none with quite the misplaced panache and grandeur of the Arc de Triomphe.
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Because is was commissioned after Austerlitz?
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Dan, for some reason, assumes that France somehow lost every battle and thus the word triumph should be stricken from their language.
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Commissioned in 1806 France was a dominate power at that time.
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The ultimate participation award.
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So an unknown soldier is buried under where there’s a lot of traffic. Nice.
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It is beautiful and poignant both outside and within the building though.
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Well the “triumph” was Napoleon’s defeat of the Holy Roman Empire in 1805, no? Hence the symbolism.
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Great John Cleese joke: "Why did the French fight so many civil wars? So they can win one from time to time"
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