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Édouard Baldus

Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris

c. 1860s
albumen print from collodion negative

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Completed in 1836, the Arc is dedicated to the armies of the French Revolution and the Second Empire and has gained additional symbolic force with each war fought by the French.

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