Square de Yorktown, Urban park in 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Square de Yorktown is a fenced square at the corner of Avenue Paul-Doumer and Rue Benjamin-Franklin, near the Musée national de la Marine. It cannot be entered, only seen from the street. At its centre stands a green-weathered bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin by John J. Boyle, seated in a long coat and hat on a bench-like seat atop a plain light-grey stone pedestal, with pink and red flowering bushes and tall spiky plants around it.
This location once held a demi-lune entrance to the Sainte-Marie barrier, part of the wall enclosing Paris in the 18th century. The current park was established later and honors Franco-American alliance through its naming and monuments.
A statue of Benjamin Franklin stands at the center, accompanied by relief panels showing his reception at the French court in 1778 and the signing of the peace treaty that ended the American Revolution.
The square is fenced and cannot be entered; it is visible from the street at the corner of Avenue Paul-Doumer (no. 1) and Rue Benjamin-Franklin, near the Musée national de la Marine. Metro lines 6 and 9 serve Trocadéro station nearby.
Commemorative plaques installed in 1931 and 1983 mark both the Battle of Yorktown and the bicentennial of the Franco-American peace treaties. These two plaques show how the site has been maintained across decades as a place remembering the alliance between the two nations.
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