<P> The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is at the eastern end of Paris Axe historique ("historic axis"), a nine - kilometre - long linear route which dominates much of the northwestern quadrant of the city . </P> <P> Looking west, the arch is aligned with the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, the centerline of the grand boulevard Champs - Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe at the Place de l'Étoile, and, although it is not directly visible from the Place du Carrousel, the Grande Arche de la Défense . Thus, the axis begins and ends with an arch . When the Arc du Carrousel was built, however, an observer in the Place du Carrousel was impeded from any view westward . The central part of the Palais des Tuileries intervened to block the line of sight to the west . When the Tuileries was burned down during the Paris Commune in 1871, and its ruins were swept away, the great axis, as it presently exists, was opened all the way to the Place du Carrousel and the Louvre . </P>

Arc de triomphe du carrousel near the louvre museum in paris