Walking around Place de la Concorde & visiting Le Chat Deambule exhibition in Paris

As we are staying in Paris for a long Easter weekend, and are currently limited to walking in a 10 km radius from a place where we live, we decided to go and explore all-those-familiar places in Paris and, hopefully, rediscover them and find something new and interesting!

And we got more than what we bargained for during this lockdown walk! The weather was simply beautiful, the fountains on the Place de la Concorde very pretty, and on top of that we run into a very lovely open-air exhibition on Champs-Elisees. You can read more about Philippe Geluck' 'Le Chat Deambule' here (https://lechat.com/en/home/) - and enjoy the walk along the cats in a real life in Paris in our video :)

Let's go! :)

0:00 The main goal of our walk today is to see the the exhibit  of "Le Chat déambule" sculptures
0:10 Le Chat is a famous  cartoon cat character very popular in France
0:15 But we are starting a bit earlier, in the Tuileries Garden, where there are a few other interesting sculptures, too.
0:33 These are the famous "Welcoming Hands" by Louise Bourgeois
01:00 While we are on our way, let's stop by at Place de la Concorde.
01:35 If you want some "crepes" in Tuileries, this is probably a very convenient place to have them.
02:10 As we said in our previous video, Concord square was where a lot of people were executed during the French revolution, including the royal family.
02:20 But there is a lot more history to it
02:40 For example, the Fontaines de la Concorde, which were placed here in 1840, at the time of Luis Philippe, the last King of France
02:50 You may remember from our video about Park Monceau that his father, Philippe Égalité, strongly supported the French revolution
03:00 So, it may actually be quite fitting that these fountains were placed on Place de la Concorde under Luis Philippe's rule!
04:50 And here's another famous artefact on the square: the Obelisk.
04:55 A lot of people know that it was previously standing at the entrance to the Luxor temple in Egypt
05:00 It is more than 3,000 years old, and was erected at the time of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II
05:05 But probably less well known is that the French obtained the obelisk from the Egyptians in exchange for the mechanical clock, which proved to be faulty.
05:10 You can see it in Cairo, at its citadel, still not working
5:20 Arch de Triumph in the distance
5:50 One last look at the Obelisk, before we go to check the cats!

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