House and Garden 
here and a public place , now the 
Place du Trocadero. 
The Neuilly-Tuileries axis was 
controlled by the construction of 
the Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile, 
which was begun in 1806, but not 
finished until 1 836. 
The ensemble of the Place de 
la Concorde was completed by 
the addition of the facade of the 
Palais du Corps Legislatif in 
1804. The scheme for adding a 
dome to the Madeleine was aban¬ 
doned, and the type of a Corinthi¬ 
an temple finally adopted. 
The Grand Chatelet was de¬ 
stroyed in 1802 and a square 
formed on the site, the contour 
of which was much changed by 
H aussmann. 
THE RESTORATION 
During the reigns of Louis 
XVIII. (1 8 14-1 824) and Charles 
X. (1824-1830), the population 
grew with some rapidity and there 
was amelioration of civic condi¬ 
tions, but in the development of 
the plan and the construction of 
monuments little was accom¬ 
plished. The situation is well 
described by Victor Hugo in his 
“Notre Dame”: “The Paris of 
the present day (1830) has no gen¬ 
eral character. It is a collection of specimens 
of different ages, and the finest have disap¬ 
peared. The capital increases only in houses 
—and what houses ! At this rate there will 
be a new Paris every fifty years. And, then, 
the historical significance of its architecture 
is effaced daily. Buildings of importance 
become rarer and rarer, and it seems as if we 
could see them gradually sinking—drowned 
in the flood of houses. Our fathers had a 
Paris of stone ; our sons will have a Paris 
of plaster.” 
THE JULY MONARCHY 
Under Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) Paris 
was more fortunate. The king was himself 
greatly interested in the improvement of the 
city, and succeeded in securing for the office 
of Prefet de la Seine the Comte de Ram- 
buteau, whose accomplishment in the trans¬ 
formation of Paris is second only to that of 
Haussmann. To him are due the Rue de 
Rambuteau, cutting through the quarters of 
Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, the Rue La¬ 
fayette, the Rue Soufflot, the unfortunate 
intrusion of the obelisk of Luxor and its 
attendant fountains into the Place de la Con¬ 
corde (1836), and a large number of minor 
streets in various parts of the city. 
Yhe Monarchic de'Juillet is especially notable 
for the number of monuments which were 
finished within its period—the Place de la 
Bastille and Colonne de Juillet (1840), 
the Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile (1836), the 
church of the Madeleine (1842), and the 
entire reconstruction of the Hotel de Ville 
(1841). The fine series of fountains erected 
by Visconti in various parts of the city be¬ 
long largely to this reign. 
In 1841 was begun the present outer line of 
fortifications, the last of the Parisian enceintes. 
