Haussmann's renovation of Paris
In 1787, during the construction of the Farmers-General Wall ("Mur des Fermiers généraux"), la "Barrière de l'Étoile" (also known as the "Barrière de Neuilly") was built to the design of Claude Nicolas Ledoux for the collection of the octroi tax at the entrance to Paris. The wall and the two buildings built on either side of the Place de l'Étoile were demolished in the nineteenth century. The modern Place Charles de Gaulle and the avenues radiating from it were created during the Second French Empire of Napoleon III as part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris.