Re: Place de la Concorde

[Thierry van Steenberghe]

Barry N. Wainwright wrote: >From a Frenchman: Levant has two meanings: sunset and East Not sunset, but sunrise, as was indeed corrected below: I understand the sentence as: "In Paris, the north rises at the East (or sunrise) of Thebes" And a third (now not so common anymore) meaning in French, as already pointed out for English by someone else: the Near-Esat or Middle-East. Thierry -- __________________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe Bruxelles / Belgium e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ To be quite honest, I'm not quite sure what this means outside of the entire context... I don't remember how the obelisk is oriented on the Concorde either... It could be related. Corentin -