Champs-Élysées  

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--"Les Champs-Élysées" (1969)

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The Champs-Élysées is the most prestigious and broadest avenue in Paris.

With its cinemas, cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world, and with rents as high as $1.25 million a year for 1,000 square feet of space, it remains the 2nd most expensive strip of real estate in the world (the first in Europe) after New York City's Fifth Avenue.

The name refers to the Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed in Greek mythology.

The arrival of global chain stores in recent years has slightly changed the character of the avenue, and in a first effort to stem these changes, the Paris City government (which has called this "banalization") decided in 2007 to ban the Swedish clothing chain H&M from opening a store on the avenue

This street is also very popular with many of the rich and famous.



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