Named after the place de la Concorde, the largest square in Paris.
Created in 1763 as the place Louis XV, it became the place de la Révolution in 1792; 1,119 of the 2,498 people guillotined in Paris during the Revolution died here. In 1795 it was renamed Concorde, ‘harmony’, reportedly to mark the reconciliation of the French after the Terror. After royal names under the Restoration, Concorde returned in 1830.