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28-616: The event was established in 1841, and it was originally called the Poule des Produits. It was initially staged at the Champ de Mars , and was later transferred to Longchamp. For a period it was held in May. The race continued as the Poule des Produits until 1876. It was renamed in memory of Viscount Paul Daru, who served as president of the Société d'Encouragement, in 1877. The Prix Daru was one of several trials for

56-669: A design by the painter Jacques-Louis David , a massive "Altar of the Nation" was built atop an artificial mountain and surmounted by a tree of liberty . The festival is regarded as the most successful of its type in the Revolution. During the Hundred Days a restored Napoleon held the Champ de Mai ceremony, during which he swore to uphold the Charter of 1815 , at the Champ de Mars. The Champ de Mars

84-534: A landslide in the runoff . An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. Notable companies that have their head offices in

112-505: A long avenue of elms, and, as a final touch, the esplanade was enclosed by a fine grille-work fence. The Isle of Swans , formerly a riverine islet at the location of the northeastern foot of the Eiffel Tower , was, for the sake of symmetry and pleasing perspectives, attached to the shore. (The Isle of Swans discussed here should not be confused with the Isle of Swans that sits in the middle of

140-759: Is a large public greenspace in Paris , France , located in the seventh arrondissement , between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The park is named after the Campus Martius ("Mars Field") in Rome , which was dedicated to the god Mars. The name alludes to the fact that the lawns here were formerly used as drilling and marching grounds by the French military. The nearest Métro stations are La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle , École Militaire , and Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel , an RER suburban-commuter-railway station. A disused station, Champ de Mars ,

168-431: Is also nearby. Originally, the Champ de Mars was part of a large flat open area called Grenelle , which was reserved for market gardening . Citizens would claim small plots and exploit them by growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers for the local market. However, the plain of Grenelle was not an especially fertile place for farming. The construction, in 1765, of the École Militaire designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel ,

196-440: Is in the arrondissement, as well as Paris Institute of Technology , part of Paris Descartes University , one of Paris biggest public universities. The renowned " classes préparatoires " establishment Intégrale : Institut d'enseignement supérieur privé have one of their campuses in the arrondissement. The École de langue japonaise de Paris (パリ日本語補習校 Pari Nihongo Hoshūkō ), a supplementary Japanese education programme ,

224-447: Is the largest arrondissement in Paris in terms of land area. The population of the 16th arrondissement peaked in 1962, when it had 227,418 inhabitants. At the last census (2009), the population was 169,372. The 16th arrondissement contains a great deal of business activity; in 1999 it hosted 106,971 jobs. The 16th arrondissement is commonly thought to be one of the richest parts of Paris (as

252-572: Is the stadium where Paris Saint-Germain football club plays its home matches; Roland Garros Stadium , where the French Open tennis championships are held; and Stade Jean-Bouin , home to the Stade Français rugby union club. The Bois de Boulogne , the second-largest public park in Paris (behind only the Bois de Vincennes ), is also located in this arrondissement. The 16th arrondissement

280-724: The Place du Trocadéro , where the Palais de Chaillot stands, itself concentrating three museums and one theatre. Other museums and cultural venues are located in this arrondissement, including the Louis Vuitton Foundation opened in 2014. With its ornate 19th-century buildings, large avenues, prestigious schools, museums, and various parks, the 16th arrondissement has long been known as one of French high society's favourite places of residence (comparable to London's Kensington and Chelsea or Berlin's Charlottenburg ) to such an extent that

308-536: The 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics , a temporary stadium known as the Eiffel Tower Stadium ( French : Stade de la Tour Eiffel ) was erected atop the Place Jacques-Rueff, and hosted the beach volleyball and blind football tournaments at the games. The Grand Palais Éphémère was built in 2021 at the south end of the Champ to host Olympic events and conventions displaced by the renovation of

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336-601: The Grand Palais (8th arrondissement) and under the Cité de la mode et du design on the Seine (13th arrondissement). Here is a list of domestic French sixth-form colleges/high schools in the arrondissement International schools: situated near to the 16th arrondissement is the place diana, the pont de l'alma tunnel is known for being the location of the fatal car accident that killed Diana, princess of Wales. The Paris Dauphine University

364-422: The Grand Palais . Portions of the opening ceremony were held at the Champ. 48°51′22″N 2°17′54″E  /  48.85611°N 2.29833°E  / 48.85611; 2.29833 16%C3%A8me arrondissement, Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris ( le XVI arrondissement ; French pronunciation: [lə sɛzjɛm aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃] ) is the westernmost of the 20 arrondissements of Paris ,

392-777: The Prix du Jockey Club collectively known as the Poules des Produits. The others (listed by their modern titles) were the Prix Lupin , the Prix Hocquart , the Prix Noailles and the Prix Greffulhe . From 1885, the Prix Daru was restricted to horses whose dams were born outside France. The event was funded by entries submitted before a horse's birth, in the year of its conception. The race merged with

420-704: The Seine downstream and around the next bend in the river, between the fifteenth and sixteenth arrondissements .) Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon from the Champ-de-Mars on 27 August 1783. This place witnessed the spectacle and pageantry of some of the best-remembered festivals of the French Revolution . On 14 July 1790 the first "Federation Day" celebration ( fête de la Fédération ), now known as Bastille Day ,

448-463: The Eiffel Tower. Champ de Mars was used as a filming location in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill , in which Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore ) drove a Renault 11 taxi which he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of a mysterious assassin, later revealed to be May Day ( Grace Jones ). Champ de Mars contains both a basketball court and a football field. For

476-724: The Prix Noailles during the 1940s. The combined event, the Prix Daru-Noailles, was contested over 2,150 metres at Le Tremblay in 1943. It took place at Maisons-Laffitte in 1944 and 1945, and Longchamp in 1946. The present system of race grading was introduced in 1971, and the Prix Daru was classed at Group 2 level. It was discontinued after 1977. Its last winner was Carwhite, ridden by Freddy Head , trained by Alec Head and owned by Jacques Wertheimer . Champ de Mars The Champ de Mars ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ də mars] ; lit.   ' Field of Mars ' )

504-440: The arrondissement carries a postal code of 75016, while the northern part has the code of 75116. Politics The 16th arrondissement is one of the strongest areas in the country for the French political right . At the 2017 French presidential election , it gave over 58% of its votes in the first round to right-wing candidate François Fillon , compared to his national result of 20%. It then went on to vote for Emmanuel Macron by

532-475: The arrondissement include Lacoste , PSA Peugeot Citroën and Lagardère . At one time Aérospatiale , Technip , Veolia and Lafarge also had their head offices in the arrondissement. In one of the opening scenes of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball , character Emilio Largo is seen arriving at the headquarters of The International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons . This scene

560-462: The capital city of France . Located on its Right Bank , it is adjacent to the 17th and 8th arrondissements to the northeast, as well as to the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine to the southwest. Opposite the Seine are the 7th and 15th arrondissements. Notable sights of the 16th arrondissement include the Arc de Triomphe (at the junction with the 8th and 17th arrondissements) and

588-554: The number. They pulled strings and became the 16th, the unlucky association and postmark being transferred to the blameless but less influential folks around Porte d'Italie ." The land area of this arrondissement is 16.305 km ( 6.295 sq mi or 4,029 acres), slightly more than half of which consists of the Bois de Boulogne park. Excluding the Bois de Boulogne, its land area is 7.846 km ( 3.029 sq mi or 1,939 acres). It

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616-450: The phrase le 16 has been associated with great wealth in French popular culture. Indeed, the 16th arrondissement of Paris is France's third-richest district for average household income, behind only its 7th arrondissement and the suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine , both of which are adjacent. The 16th arrondissement hosts several large sporting venues, including: the Parc des Princes , which

644-428: The saying Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy popularised); it features some of the most expensive real estate in France including the famous Auteuil "villas"; heirs to 19th century high-society country houses, they are exclusive gated communities with huge houses surrounded by gardens, which is extremely rare in Paris. It is also the only arrondissement in Paris to be divided into two separate postal codes . The southern part of

672-502: Was created by the Law of 16 June 1859 which incorporated the villages (now neighborhoods) of Auteuil , Passy and Chaillot into Paris; these villages had become communes after the French Revolution and had been in the Seine department ever since. When the law of 1859 was drafted, it was planned that these villages would form a new arrondissement that would be numbered the 13th arrondissement, but "The rich and powerful moving in did not like

700-554: Was held on the Champ de Mars, exactly one year after the storming of the prison. The following year, on 17 July 1791, the massacre on the Champ de Mars took place. Jean Sylvain Bailly , the first mayor of Paris, became a victim of his own revolution, and was guillotined there on 12 November 1793. The Champ de Mars was also the site of the Festival of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794. With

728-466: Was shot on Avenue d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement. The 1972 film Last Tango in Paris was filmed at various locations in the 16th arrondissement, with the apartment the characters stayed in being located in Passy . A scene of the 2018 action film Mission: Impossible – Fallout was filmed under the elevated Métro station Passy in the arrondissement. Other scenes of the film included ones shot at

756-410: Was the first step toward the Champ de Mars in its present form. Grounds for military drills were originally planned for an area south of the school, the current location of the place de Fontenoy . The choice to build an esplanade to the north of the school led to the erection of the noble facade which today encloses the Champ de Mars. The planners leveled the ground, surrounded it with a large ditch and

784-483: Was the site of Expositions Universelles in 1867 , 1878 , 1889 , 1900 , and 1937 . In 2012, the United Buddy Bears exhibit was held on the Champ de Mars, an international art exhibition with more than 140 two-meter-tall bears representing individual countries. They promote peace, love, tolerance and international understanding and are displayed across the planet. They stand at Champ de Mars in Paris, fronting

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