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Rabat – Moroccan kaftans dominated the runway at the 34th Oriental Fashion Show at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, on Monday, January 20.

The closure of rides including the Zoofari Express train, Conservation Carrousel and 50 Monkeys Ferris Wheel.

From left: The Officine Universelle Buly pop-up in the Carrousel du Louvre; a treatment room at Maison Sisley; David Mallett’s salon on Rue Notre Dame des Victoires.

After the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, the Grande Arche is the third arch built on the same perspective.

Consequently, the older axis extending from the courtyard of the Louvre is slightly skewed to the rest of what has become the Axe historique, but the Arc du Carrousel, at the fulcrum between the two, serves to disguise the discontinuity.

The four antique bronze horses, which had adorned the basilica of San Marco in Venice after the sack of Constantinople in 1204, were brought to Paris to reside atop Napoleon's Arc du Carrousel in Paris in 1797.

There, by order of Napoleon, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was centered on the palace (and so on the same axial line that was developing beyond the palace).