the parisian vector

the vector from the louvre, through les jardins des tuileries, across place de la concorde, down the champs elisées (napoleonic/romantic/naturalist and mercantile halves), through l’arc de triomphe, down boulevard charles du gaulle through neuilly, across the seine, through la défense with its modernist bauhaus office buildings, through la grande arche, down the steps, and out along the boardwalk to nowhere traces the path of human history.

i could give you a full analysis, but frankly you can figure it out if you know the places at all.