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View down Avenue des Champs Elysees

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The Avenue des Champs Elysees, with many people experiencing the variety of excellent shops, restaurants and more. Find more of Paris; www.eutouring.com/images_paris_city_life.html

Relaxing at Champs Elysees hidden gardens

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Hidden gardens of the Champs Elysees Avenue, perfect for tourists to stop and relax at. See more Paris Photos at www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Bistro Romain and outside dining

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The popular Bistro Romain and its al fresco dining along the Champs Elysees Avenue. More at; www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Pizza Vesuvio on Champs Elysees

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A Pizza Vesuvio restaurant found along the famous Champs Elysees Avenue. Daily updates at www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Disney store along the avenue

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A Disney store found on the famous and historical Avenue des Champs Elysees. See more Paris Photos at www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Champs Elysees to Place de la Concorde

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View down the Champs Elysees Avenue to Place de la Concorde at the end, with the Luxor Obelisk in sight even from a distance. More photos to be seen at www.eutouring.com/images_place_de_la_concorde.html

Brioche Dorée on the Champs Elysees

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A Brioche Dorée restaurant found on the Champs Elysees, the second largest bakery/cafe chain in the world. To see more go to www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

The end of the Champs Elysees at the Arc de Triomphe

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A view at one end of the Avenue des Champs Elysees looking towards the famous Arc de Triomphe. More information and details at www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Busy day along the Champs Elysees

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The Avenue des Champs Elysees has many shops and restaurants to stop at along, with locals and tourists alike walking down the famous street. To see more go to www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

View of part of the Champs Elysees

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This photo shows part of the famous Champs Elysees Avenue with many shops and intricate architecture to admire. Daily updates at www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Sephora store along the Avenue

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Here you can see a famous cosmetic store, Sephora, which can be found along the Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris, the same city that the company was founded from. You may also like www.eutouring.com/avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Louis Vuitton at Avenue des Champs Elysees

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The Champs Elysees Avenue is renowned for being an ideal place to shop for designer clothes and accessories, with brand names having stores here such as this large Louis Vuitton store found on the avenue. See more www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Over an Avenue towards the Louvre

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Taken above of the Avenue du Général Lemonier road you can see a statue in the foreground with the photo leading towards one wing the Louvre to the right of the photo. More photos to be seen at www.eutouring.com/images_louvre_museum.html

Architecture along the Avenue des Champs Elysees

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The Avenue des Champs Elysees has many shops and places you should see, but sometimes the architecture along is missed, this photo we took showing some of the mansion type houses that were built back in the 1700s and the details which have gone into them. To see more go to www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Souvenir shop on the Champs Elysees

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Here you can see a photo of a souvenir shop that can be found along the Champs Elysees Avenue, making it a popular place for those walking down to stop and take back a gift or two for family, friends or themselves. You may be interested in more; www.eutouring.com/images_paris.html

Avenue des Champs Elysees gardens

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In this photo you can see the gardens which are found around half way down the Avenue des Champs Elysees with this photo showing an ornate fountain within. To see more go to www.eutouring.com

Along the Avenue des Champs Elysees

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Taken from the end of the Avenue des Champs Elysees near Place de la Concorde you can see right down the famous Avenue and to the Arc de Triomphe which sits at the other end, showing just how busy the road is. More photos to be seen at www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

Trees and buildings along Champs Elysees

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Here you can see the lines of trees which go down the Avenue des Champs Elysees, along with great architecture of the buildings behind it and various tourists and locals passing by. You may be interested in more; www.eutouring.com/images_avenue_des_champs_elysees.html

The most famous avenue in the world, the Champs Elysees in Paris

The Champs Elysees has a full name of the Avenue des Champs Elysees, which the name translates to Elysian Fields in French, that is meant to be a place of the blessed and a resting place of Gods in Greek mythology. The Champs Elysees is perhaps one of the most famous avenues within the world and in France is called La plus belle avenue du monde, which translated means the most beautiful avenue in the world and with its magnificence it's no wonder, but this famous tree lined avenue actually didn't begin out in this manner. In fact, the name stems from the very fact that this whole area was originally fields and market gardens with farmers selling their goods to the local Paris markets . It was Marie de Medici, who was the wife of King Henry IV, that wanted to clear a number of these fields and extend the garden of the Palais des Tuileries at the former Palais du Louvre , which is now the Louvre Museum, by creating an avenue, and it was before long full of trees that were plan