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19-756: The event was established in 1855, and it was originally called the Prix de l'Empereur. It was initially held at the Champ de Mars , and was transferred to Longchamp in 1857. It was cancelled due to the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and was renamed the Grande Poule des Produits in 1872. The race was one of several trials for the Prix du Jockey Club collectively known as the Poules des Produits. The others (listed by their modern titles) were

38-669: 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

57-505: 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

76-808: 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 ,

95-431: 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 ,

114-568: Is situated on the left bank of the River Seine . Sharing the Montparnasse district with the 6th and 14th arrondissements, it is the city's most populous arrondissement, with a population of 229,472 as of 2020. Tour Montparnasse – the tallest skyscraper in Paris – and the neighbouring Gare Montparnasse are both located in the 15th arrondissement, at its border with the 14th. It is also home to

133-536: 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

152-529: 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 15%C3%A8me arrondissement, Paris The 15th arrondissement of Paris ( XV arrondissement ) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le quinzième ("the fifteenth"). The 15th arrondissement, called Vaugirard,

171-667: The Prix Daru , the Prix Hocquart , the Prix Noailles and the Prix Greffulhe . Unlike those races, the Grande Poule des Produits had no restrictions based on the nationality of a horse's sire or dam. The event was renamed in memory of Auguste Lupin (1807–1895), a successful owner-breeder, in 1896. The Prix Lupin was abandoned throughout World War I, with no running from 1915 to 1918. It was cancelled once during World War II, in 1940. It

190-704: 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 ,

209-566: The high-rise Beaugrenelle district and the Front de Seine riverside development, as well as the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles convention centre, where the 180-metre Tour Triangle is set to house a 120-room hotel and 70,000 square metres of office space in 2026. Close is the Héliport de Paris, the city heliport, just nearby the border with Issy-les-Moulineaux . The loi du 16 juin 1859 decreed

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228-463: 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

247-472: The Parisian arrondissements , the fifteenth is made up of four administrative quarters ( quartiers ). The early airfield here has been encroached upon by urban development and a sports centre, but the residual area, mainly laid to grass, continues to serve Paris as a heliport . The Sécurité Civile has a detachment there close to maintenance facilities. Customs facilities are available and especially busy during

266-566: The Salon d'Aeronautique airshows held at Le Bourget on the other side of the city. The 15th arrondissement is located in the southwestern part of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It includes one of the three islands in Paris, the Île aux Cygnes (Isle of the Swans), on the border with the 16th arrondissement. It also borders the 6th, 7th and 14th arrondissements. At 8.5 km (3.3 sq mi), it

285-632: The annexation to Paris of the area between the old Wall of the Ferme générale and the Wall of Thiers . The communes of Grenelle , Vaugirard and Javel were incorporated into Paris in 1860. Politician Charles Michels (born 1903) was elected a deputy for the 15th arrondissement under the Popular Front ; he was taken hostage and shot by the Nazis in 1941. A Métro station and street now bear his name. As in all

304-554: 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

323-617: Was run at Le Tremblay over 2,150 metres in 1943, and at Maisons-Laffitte in 1944. The present system of race grading was introduced in 1971, and the Prix Lupin was classed at Group 1 level. The race was last run in 2004. It was discontinued after France Galop restructured its Group 1 programme for three-year-olds in 2005. Leading jockey (7 wins): Leading trainer (7 wins): Leading owner (7 wins): Champ de Mars The Champ de Mars ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ də mars] ; lit.   ' Field of Mars ' )

342-410: 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

361-483: 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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