Paris

The return of the bronze horses will show how a victory monument outlived the defeat of the man who commissioned it.

The long vista will be useful for a story about an engineering structure of which nothing remains above ground.

The park restores to the ceremonial vista the political cost that today’s greenery has almost concealed.

The failed escape leads from a prison cell to the rushed trial of the former queen.

This is where the story begins of how one successful farce restored a provincial troupe's place in Paris.

Beneath the dome, you will see whether a state ritual can outlive the power that conceived it.

The route’s main symbol will show how a temporary exhibition structure became essential to the city.

Here you will gain your initial elevation and see the first contrast between the ceremonial terrace and the hall beneath it.

A dispute between a superior and a subordinate will explain why the royal garden remained a place for Parisian walks.

Two days of courtly contests will link the Fronde, a royal celebration, and the centuries-long disappearance of the flower beds.

The difference in size between the two basins will reveal the perspective calculation made for a vanished palace window.

A church threshold connects a dangerous marital compromise with the return of the same groom, now King of France.

A street exhibition will explain how still life opened the way to the Royal Academy for a young master.

The fate of two relatives shows why the square’s conciliatory name became the Revolution’s family denouement.

Here, public humiliation in neighboring courtyards meets belated and incomplete justice.

The final crossing will bring engineering calculation and diplomatic ritual together in a single city view.

The crossing will link the Parisian perspective with the memory of a defeat encoded in its name.

Two weeks in fabric will show how many years of approvals were needed for a temporary work on an active crossing.

The market sign shows how a visitor's personal attachment became a rare municipal naming.

Walls hidden inside residential buildings will connect the street’s name with centuries of paid prayer.

The fate of the relics reveals the chapel as a carefully guarded royal repository.

The finale will connect a vanished islet, the disputed date of an execution, and the ground of today’s garden.

The full-scale mock-up helps explain why the debate over glass was a debate over the museum’s entire new arrangement.