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6 unusual facts about Champ de Mars


Champ de Mars

Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, became a victim of his own revolution and was guillotined there on 12 November 1793.

Magnus Hirschfeld

On his 65th birthday, 14 May 1933, Hirschfeld arrived in Paris, where he would live in a luxurious apartment building at 24 Avenue Charles Floquet, facing the Champ de Mars.

Prix du Cadran

The event is named after a clock face (cadran) at the École Militaire, a building located alongside its original venue, the Champ de Mars.

Prix Gladiateur

The first version was contested over two circuits of the Champ de Mars, a distance of 4,000 metres.

Saxtuba

The only other notable public appearance of the saxtubas occurred less than a month after the opera's première, on 10 May 1852, when twelve saxtubas participated in a military ceremony on the Champ de Mars, Paris, in which the President of the French Republic Louis Napoleon distributed the colours to his army.

Their only other public appearance of note was at a military ceremony on the Champ de Mars in Paris in the same year.


Édouard Joseph Dantan

Writing of the first exhibition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the Champ de Mars in 1890, Walter Sickert was scathingly critical of most of the paintings, making exceptions for a series of far-eastern landscapes by Louis-Jules Dumoulin, a painting by Édouard Manet, some portraits by Jules-Élie Delaunay and some studies by Dantan.


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Jardin d'Acclimatation railway

For the 1878 Exposition Universelle he proposed to use his concept for the exhibition by a line Trocadéro - Military Academy passing the Champ-de-Mars, but permission was denied.