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The New International Encyclopædia/Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

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4752096The New International Encyclopædia, Volume I — Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

ARC DE TRIOMPHE DU CARROUSEL, ärk d𝑒 trē̇ôNf′ d𝑒 kȧro͞ozĕl′ (Fr., triumphal arch of the tilting-match) . An arch built by Napoleon I. at Paris, in the square inclosed by the Tuileries and the Louvre, in commemoration of his victories during 1805–06. It is a smaller copy of the Arch of Constantine at Rome. See Arch, Triumphal.