Originally, the Champs-Élysées were just fields. In 1616, Marie de Médicis decided to create a long tree-lined avenue. In 1667, Le Nôtre extended this perspective from the Tuileries. In the 17th century, the Champs-Élysées (a name first coined in 1709) was nothing more than a long tree-lined promenade in the heart of an undeveloped area. After numerous redesigns (Jacques Hittorff, Jean Charles Alphand, Bernard Huet, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Norman Foster), the last modifications were made in 1994.
