The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris was designed by Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine for Napoleon I, who had it built as a gateway to the Tuileries Palace. The infobox and text agree on construction from 1806 to 1808.
The article calls the style Neoclassical, in the Corinthian order, modeled on the Arch of Constantine in Rome. It has marble columns and statues with rose marble bas-reliefs. The arch is 62 feet (19 m) high, 75 feet (23 m) wide and 24 feet (7.3 m) deep.
The Horses of Saint Mark originally topped it. After Waterloo in 1815, France ceded them to Austria, which returned them to Venice, and a quadriga depicting Peace replaced them in 1828. The 1871 destruction of the Tuileries Palace opened the view west toward the Arc de Triomphe. The article gives no current use or hours.
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