The Porte Saint-Denis is a neighborhood in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at the site of one of the gates of the medieval city walls built by King Charles V of France from 1356 to 1383. The walls were torn down in the 1640s, and the remaining walls were demolished during the 1670s as Paris expanded beyond its medieval boundaries. To replace the old Porte Saint-Denis gateway, King Louis XIV commissioned a monument to commemorate his conquest of Franche-Comte in 1668, and work began in 1672 and was paid for by the city of Paris; the Porte Saint-Denis was the first of four triumphal arches to be built in Paris, the others being the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel from 1806 to 1808, the Porte Saint-Martin in 1674, and the Arc de Triomphe in 1836.
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