The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was originally designed to celebrate the battle of Austerlitz at the centre of a celebration of all Bonaparte's big wins but it took so long to finish that by the time it was done Napoleon had ... died in exile ... and all those great battles had ultimately been undone

April 11, 2026 - 07:07 UTC

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Fingers crossed for Big Donny
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Hitler's of course was never actually built.
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They really don't have a great track record in the modern era do they?!
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Hopefully Trumps arch fails to get built for similar reasons
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Hopefully history will repeat itself for Trump.
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Hopefully that’s how far Trump will get too.
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Though of course the Gateway of India was built for King George’s visit in 1911, except of course it wasn’t built in time and they got a cardboard replica…
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They did build this though - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerbelastungsk%C3%B6rper
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Trump and his cronies are clearly inspired by the megalomaniac ‘Germania’ world capital visions of Albert Speer developed for Hitler which included a triumphal arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but on steroids – it was supposed to be almost a hundred metres high (330 feet).
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Then there's Mussolini's effort in the Libyan desert, eventually demolished in the Seventies by order of Colonel Gadaffi.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_the_Philaeni
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I bet Farage is still fuming Hitler didn't win !!!
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I think they should do more of Trump's arch, four Arches in a row. He deserves it because he’s so so great. They should create an arch on its side, an upside-down one, a normal one, and then a T-shape.
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You're hinting at something aren't you?
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Well, he didn't win that war.
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Trump would, if he were a true traditionalist, have a new Elephant of the Bastille built.
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Trump wants to realize his legacy while still alive.
I look forward to the times of Hitler Mussolini and Hussien when there legacies were torn down/erased.
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I think an avenue of classic iron lampposts with the traditional ladder rests just below the lantern would look good on the approach to the arch, maybe just put up the lamps first
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At least the Arc de Triomphe was repurposed as remembrance of the unknown soldier
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Is Trump going ahead with ‘The Arc d’Epstein’ ?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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The only people who built these things to celebrate great victories ***after*** the war was over and the general was dead and with approval from both the government and people were the original designers, the Roman Empire. At least at first. Let us not get into those built late Empire.
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Those are the sort of things we should bring back, sending arseholes off to remote islands into exile until they die.
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