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"The Wall for Peace is a monument in March 2000 before the military school , on the Champ de Mars , in the 7th arrondissement of Paris .
Description
It was made ??by artist Clara Halter and architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte . They installed the monument celebrating the peace in a place that is just a symbol of war (of the Mars named after March , the god of war in Roman mythology , and the military school is proximity). It was to be initially placed in front of the UNESCO headquarters .
The Wall for Peace consists of a dressy metal frame of wood , with stainless steel and glass . It measures nearly 16 meters long, 13 meters wide and 9 meters high. On large glass facades is written the word "peace" in 49 languages ??different.
This work is directly inspired by the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem since visitors can leave a message of peace in the slots provided for this purpose or send a message of peace from the website or, since 2003, interactive terminals the messages are then displayed on screens located in the monument. The site also includes personalities of peace Posts: Elie Wiesel , Cyrielle Clair , Jean-Charles Decaux , Lionel Jospin , Bernard-Henri Levy , Elie Chouraqui , Alexander Alexeyevich Avdeyev , Alain Némarq , Gérard de Cortanze , Rama Yade , Patrick Frey , Jean -Paul Bailly , Pierre Moscovici , Théo Klein , David Douillet , Jean Nouvel , Koïchiro Matsuura , Jérôme Clément , François Hollande , Philippe Robinet , Boualem Sansal , Danièle Thompson , Olivia Cattan, Richard Rossin , Serge Uzzan , Pierre Martial , Alain Afflelou , Michel Gryner , Renaud , Daniel Templon , Firas Tlass , René Frydman , Benoît Duquesne , Tomasz Orlowski , Martine Aubry , Edgar Morin , Étienne-Émile Baulieu , Simone Halberstadt Harari , Pierre Mongin , Nahed Ojjeh , Gérard Collomb , Nathalie Obadia , Pierre Combescot , Gérard Pullicino , Lara Fabian , Laurent Gerra , Michel Jonasz , Enrico Macias , Luc Dardenne , Shimon Peres , Bernard Kouchner , Christine Albanel , Bertrand Delanoë , Dominique Sopo , Sonia Rykiel , Amos Gitai , Michel Legrand , Pierre Bergé , Bernard Fixot , Jean Reno , Olivier Poivre d'Arvor , Bernard Murat , Malek Chebel , Maurice Levy , Rachid Taha , Diane von Furstenberg , Ghaleb Bencheikh , Jean-Michel di Falco , Irene Frain , Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr , Claude Unger , Christophe Girard , Luc Ferry , Patrick Lozès , Philippe Monsel , Serge Toubiana , Maryse Wolinski , Armando Verdiglione , Denis Olivennes , Myriam Solomon , Jean-Claude Lamy , Bernard Bled , Jul , Pascal Boniface , Thierry Oriez , Alain Seban .
The site became a place of rendezvous for militants of human rights ."