Place des Etats-Unis - Paris, France
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Chasing Blue Sky
N 48° 52.080 E 002° 17.646
31U E 448232 N 5413022
[FR] La place des États-Unis est un espace public dans le 16ème arrondissement de Paris, en France. [EN] The Place des États-Unis (United States Plaza) is a public space in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Waymark Code: WMF909
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 09/12/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
Views: 12

[Francais]

"La place des États-Unis [se trouve] à environ 500 m au sud de la Place de l'Etoile et de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Il se compose d'une place, à environ 140 mètres de long et trente mètres de large, bordée d'arbres, bien aménagé et délimité par les rues, formant un cadre agréable et ombragé vest-pocket parc. Le parc est officiellement nommé Place Thomas Jefferson, mais il bâtiments faisant face (sur trois côtés) ont Place-des-etats-unis adresses. L'extrémité orientale de la place, cependant, est plafonné par le avenue d'Iéna et une confluence des rues connues sous le nom de la Place de l'Amiral de Grasse." (visit link)

Le parc dispose d'un certain nombre de monuments, dont une statue de George Washington et le marquis de Lafayette, un buste de Horace Wells, un buste de Myron Herrick T, une plaque en l'honneur du Général John J. Pershing, et un monument aux volontaires américains dans World guerre.


Mes excuses pour quoi que ce soit ne se traduit pas correctement. J'ai utilisé Google traduction de l'anglais vers le français. J'ai pensé qu'il valait mieux un essai au.

[English]

"The Place des États-Unis [is situated] about 500 m south of the Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe.

It consists of a plaza, approximately 140 metres long and thirty metres wide, tree-lined, well-landscaped, and circumscribed by streets, forming a pleasant and shady vest-pocket park. The park is officially named Square Thomas Jefferson, but buildings facing it (on three sides) have Place-des-États-Unis addresses. The eastern end of the square, however, is capped by the Avenue d'Iéna and a confluence of streets known as the Place de l'Amiral de Grasse." (visit link)

The park has a number of monuments, including a statue of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, a bust of Horace Wells, a bust of Myron T Herrick, a plaque honoring General John J. Pershing, and a monument to American Volunteers in World War I.
Name: Place des Etats-Unis

Street Location: Place des Etats-Unis

Local Municipality: Paris

State/Province, etc.: Île-de-France

Country: France

Web Site: [Web Link]

Memorial/Commemoration: The Place des États-Unis was originally called Place de Bitche to honor a village in the Moselle department in northeastern France that valiantly resisted a Prussian invasion during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

Date Established: 1866

Picnic Facilities: Picnic tables, benches

Recreational Facilities:
Two Children's Playgrounds


Monuments/Statues: Multiple Monuments/Statues/Busts

Art (murals/sculpture, etc.): None

Fountains: None

Ponds/Lakes/Streams/Rivers/Beach: None

Traditional Geocaches:
None


Special Events: Not listed

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