Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Arc de Triomphe dị n'akụkụ aka nri nke Seine n'etiti etiti usoro dodecagonal nke ụzọ iri na abụọ na-agbasa. E nyere ya ọrụ n'afọ 1806, mgbe mmeri e meriri na
Austerlitz nke Emperor Napoleon dere n'oge ọ nọ n'ọkwá kasị elu. Ịtọ ntọala ya were afọ abụọ, na 1810, mgbe Napoleon si n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ bata na Paris na nwunye ọhụrụ ya, Archduchess Marie-Louise nke Austria, o mere ka e jiri osisi mee ihe atụ nke ogidi ahụ a rụchara. Onye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ, Jean Chalgrin, nwụrụ na 1811 ma Jean-Nicolas Huyot weghaara ọrụ ahụ.