Great men of Paris: statues and monuments
Paris is an open-air museum of its great men, and this route tours it in eighteen stations. It starts at Varenne, under the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon I lies in a tomb inaugurated in 1861. At Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau, Clemenceau, de Gaulle and Churchill each have a statue on the square and the avenue. Next come Molière, honoured by his fountain near the Palais-Royal, then Henri IV on horseback on the Pont Neuf. At Odéon, Danton stands on the site of his house; at Cluny-La Sorbonne, Auguste Comte watches over place de la Sorbonne. The Panthéon, at Cardinal Lemoine, brings together Voltaire, Rousseau and Hugo, and the route ends at Bastille, in front of the house where Victor Hugo lived from 1832 to 1848.