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| Carla and Noelia Jones and their triumphs |
Today, The Jones have had a day full of news. This morning, Noelia Jones has communicated to her family that she has decided to live in Urquhart Castle forever and don't continue travelling with the family.
Noelia has reached her dream and the family are the happiest people around the world knowing that she is going to stay in Loch Ness and enjoy her life in Scotland.
Carla Jones has decided to travel to Bahamas Islands to live there forever with an old native Caribbean friend who is going to be her husband in a few days. Congratulations both girls, Carla and Noelia, you deserve the best in your lives.
After this news, the family has continued with their English classes. They have revised some Social English, The Superlative and the Relative Pronouns. They have also read another chapter of Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray and they have been choosing transports and talking about their advantages and disadvantages.
More information: The Superlative
Finally, MJ has sent some bureaucratic papers to fill them and the family has been talking about some international holdings which had humble origins and nowadays they are important enterprises around the world.
More information: Relative Pronouns
This afternoon, The Jones are visiting the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile -the étoile or star of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
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| The Jones and their transports |
The Arc de Triomphe should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre.
The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
As the central cohesive element of the Axe historique, historic axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense, the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.
Inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres width of 45 m, and depth of 22 m, while its large vault is 29.19 m, high and 14.62 m, wide.
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| The Grandma in the funeral ceremony for Victor Hugo |
The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m high and 8.44 m wide. Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, marking the end of hostilities in World War I, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.
The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues. It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.
Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed.
The architect, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811 and the work was taken over by Jean-Nicolas Huyot. During the Bourbon Restoration, construction was halted and it would not be completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836, by the architects Goust, then Huyot, under the direction of Héricart de Thury.
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
On 15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting place at the Invalides. Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was displayed under the Arc during the night of 22 May 1885.
Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire was extinguished in the fourth century. It burns in memory of the dead who were never identified, now in both world wars.
A ceremony is held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier every 11 November on the anniversary of the armistice signed by the Entente Powers and Germany in 1918.
More information: Paris-Arc de Triomphe
In 1961, American President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle. After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.
More information: Elsa's Travel Blog
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris,
and I have enjoyed it.
John F. Kennedy
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