Place des Pyramides

This is a neat square with arcades all round, and in the centre a gilded statue of Joan of Arc, who arrived here in command of the French Army in 1430, and near this spot was wounded by an arrow while testing the depth of the moat with her spear.
The English, who’d never even scratched her before, were delighted, and she never managed to capture Paris.

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