Chaillot Palace

I took this photo from the Eiffel Tower. The long, white curved arms of the Palais de Chaillot reach out towards the Seine and the Eiffel Tower. The Chaillot Palace was built for the 1937 World's Fair and so was never the home of royalty. It is built over the footprint of Catherine de Medici's palace, which was a real seventeenth century palace in what was then the countryside outside Paris.

After the Second World War, Chaillot Palace held the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 when it passed the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man which remains the basis of international law.

Michelin Paris, Wikipedia, Amnesty International UK