The seventeenth arrondissement is anchored by the Arc de Triomphe, a colossal monument that stands at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. Commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in eighteen oh six, the arch commemorates those who fought and died for France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It is a defining feature of the local landscape, marking the spot where the seventeenth arrondissement meets the eighth and sixteenth.
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