Even at night, the Place de l'Étoile is busy with cars swirling around its multiple lanes
Traffic 10-abreast traverses the Place d L’Etoile. A brave policewoman (in the centre of the photo) is directing the flow
Place de l'Étoile, seen from above (DigitalGlobe photo)
The Place de l'Étoile is a large Place in Paris, France, the meeting point of twelve avenues (hence the name "Star Square") including the Champs-Élysées which continues to the east. It was renamed Place Charles de Gaulle in 1970 in honor of President de Gaulle, but is still largely referred to by its original name.
The earliest known deGaulle ancestor was a squire of the 12th-century King Philip Augustus.
In December deGaulle was elected President by the parliament with 78% of the vote, and was inaugurated in January 1959.
DeGaulle believed that while the war in Algeria was militarily winnable it was not defensible internationally, and he became reconciled to the former colony's eventual independence.
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