These long formal gardens, streching between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire, were laid out in 1765-7 as a parade ground for the military school, but the "field of Mars" was opened to the public in 1780. Three years later crowds gathered for the launch of the first hydrogen-filled ballon. On 14 July 1790, a sullen Louis XVI watched as 300,000 citizens celebrated the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, an event which is commemorated here annually. Five world exhibitions were held there between 1867 and 1937; the 1889 event gave Paris the Eiffel Tower.

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