The Monument to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

The Champ de Mars is usually associated with the Eiffel Tower, but there are other pieces of French history scattered through the park. One of the most unusual is the Monument to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, created by the Czech sculptor Ivan Theimer for the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989.

The seven-metre monument deliberately looks nothing like a conventional Parisian memorial. Theimer drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian architecture, while incorporating symbols associated with the French Revolution. The result is a monument that commemorates a document rather than an individual.

That document, adopted by the National Assembly on 26 August 1789, established principles including liberty and equality of rights that became fundamental to modern French political thought.

The monument itself is surprisingly recent. Although it commemorates one of the defining texts of the French Revolution, it was commissioned specifically for the 1989 bicentenary. Theimer's original designs and a model of the monument are now held by the Musée Carnavalet, linking this modern work back to the collections of the museum devoted to the history of Paris