The Champ de Mars is a large public green space in Paris, France, located in the seventh district between the Eiffel Tower and the École Militaire. The park is named after the Roman Campus Martius ("Field of Mars"), a tribute to the Roman god of war. The name refers to the fact that the lawns here were previously used by the French military as drilling and marching grounds.
Champ de Mars was originally part of a large flat area called Grenelle, which was intended for market gardening. Citizens would apply for small plots of land and use them to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers for the local market. However, the Grenelle Plain was not a very fertile place to farm.
The construction of the École Militaire in 1765, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, was the first step towards the Champ de Mars in its current form. Areas of military exercises were originally planned in the area south of the school, in the current location of Fontenoy. The choice to build an esplanade north of the school led to the noble façade that surrounds the Champ de Mars today. The planners leveled the ground, surrounded it by a large ditch and a long cobblestone boulevard, and as a final touch, the esplanade was enclosed by a fine lattice garden.
On August 27, 1783, Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon from Champ-de-Mars.
This place witnessed the spectacle and beauty of the festivals best remembered by the French Revolution. On July 14, 1790, the first celebration of Federation Day (fête de la Fédération) was held on the Champ de Mars, now known as Bastille Day, exactly one year after his incarceration. The following year, on 17 July 1791, the Champ de Mars was massacred. Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, fell victim to his own revolution and was guillotinated there on November 12, 1793.
The Champion of the Supreme Being was also held on June 8, 1794 in Champ de Mars. According to the design of the painter Jacques-Louis David, a massive "National Altar" was built on top of the artificial hill, which was crossed. at the tree of freedom. The festival is considered to be the most successful of this type of revolution. For a hundred days, the restored Napoleon Champ de Mai held a ceremony during which he vowed to follow the 1815 Charter on Champ de Mars.
In 2012, the exhibition was held at the United Buddy Bears Champ de Mars, an international art exhibition featuring individual countries from more than 140 two-meter bears. They promote peace, love, tolerance and international understanding and are displayed throughout the planet. They stand in front of the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris.
Champ de Mars was used as the scene in James Bond's 1985 film A View to a Kill, where Bond (last played by Roger Moore) drove a Renault 11 taxi he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower.
Champ de Mars is the venue for beach volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics and five at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
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