What is Grande Arche?
[[File:Grande Arche, France - April 2011.jpg|thumb|La Défense, with Grande Arche]] [[File:La Grande arche.jpg|thumb|The structure in white is the Grande Arche]] [[File:Grande Arche, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine 81.jpg|thumb|View of the Skyline of La Défense, with the Grande Arche in the center. What shows as green belt is the Axe historique]] The '''Grande Arche''' is a [[monument]] that was constructed in [[La Défense]], near [[Paris]], in the 1980s. It is at one end of what is known as [[axe historique]] (the other is the [[Musée du Louvre]]). It looks like the 3D [[Projection (mathematics)|projection]] of a [[tesseract]]. The Grande Arche was built when [[François Mitterrand]] was president. It was opened on 14 July 1989, 200 years after the [[French Revolution]]. The Grande Arche houses different offices of the government. There is a terrace at the top, and a space for exhibitions. [[Category:Monuments and memorials in France]]