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Rue de Rivoli is one of the most famous streets in Paris. The street named by Napoleon defeated the Austrian army in the battle of Rivoli on January 14 and January 1797 and achieved the name of early victory. The history of the street is complex and long. There are many projects to be announce for unite the streets and roads with Louvre gardens placed alongside the Louvre after the  Place de la Concorde   built in 1770s. Usually it would combined with the plans of the combined Louvre and Tuileries palaces. Napoleon eventually approved the construction of such a street and he took the first steps to create a Tuileries Palace - the Louvre's Super Palace. The emperor  asked his advisors- the offical architects  Fontaine and Percier to complete the city development. The Rivoli Street sign is famous for official plans for the transition between compromised monuments, urbanism and modern forms of the aristocratic square. The significations of the street are the tran...

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (architect Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine) was built by Napoleon I after the model of the Roman Constantine arc from 1806 to 1808. The two arches built by Napoleon -The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and The Arc de Triomphe at Etoile.He built those arc for commemorate his victory and win their great army, including the victory of the French army in Austerlitz. The bronze horse on the top of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was obtained from Saint Mark of Venice. These later returned after World War II. It is composed of threes arches: a big one and two little ones. The arc is 63 feet high, 75 feet wide, and 24 feet deep. The two small arches are 14 feet, 16 inches high and 9 feet wide. The big arch is 21 feet high and 9 feet wide. The arc is surmounted by a group of men on horses underneath of which, one finds the names of the battles and treaties of Napoleon. The Quadriga beyond the arch is a replica of the bronze horse of Constantine I at ...