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L’Arc du Carrousel at sunset”

The top of l’Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of orange clouds at dusk. At the top of the triumphal arch’s eastern façade is a quadrige of four horsemen dersigned by sculptors Auguste Taunay, Charles-Louis Corbet, Jean-Joseph Foucou and Joseph Chinar, flanked by statues entitled «Paix» anf «Victoire». The inscription on the Frontispices at the top of the arch reads
“The French army embarked at Boulogne, threatened England
A third coalition breaks out on the continent
The French fly from the ocean to the Danube
Bavaria is liberated, the Austrian army is taken prisoner at Ulm.

Photographs of the musée du Louvre.
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