Champs de Mars, Paris

Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport
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Champs de Mars is a large public park in Paris, France. It stretches from the Eiffel Tower to the École Militaire. The park was named after the Campus Martius (Latin for "Field of Mars) in ancient Rome. Champs de Mars got that name because it was originally used for military drills. It became the site of the Expositions Universelles held in Paris in 1867, 1978 and 1889.

Champs de Mars was the setting of the Fête de la Fédération, the feast that took place on 14 July 1790 to celebration the establishment of a short-lived constitutional monarchy, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

A year later, on 17 July 1791, it became the site for a massacre when the National Guard opened fire on a crowd that have signed a petition to remove King Louis XVI as the constitutional monarch.

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