Paris in 2010 by Robert Abramson

Sitting in the cœur Napoleon, at the Louvre, conquest and empires can be expected to come up as a topic. I must reminded myself that Louis XIV was a general, too, and had seen much blood shed and the chaos of war from the battle field point of view. From this two thoughts come to mind, the flawed human, a temporal being, and the grandiose architecture as a gambit for immortality that attracts the powerful. Generals build empires-Napoleon and Louis-to rise great edifices to rise up from the condition of the average man.

 
The Ispahan plaza first among grand plazas of empires.