“Well you just might wish to check that out a little deeper. Guess whose defeat this relief on the Arch of Titus is celebrating?”
I am well aware of the infamy of Arch of Titus (which is but one of many Roman celebratory arches). The fact that Arch of Titus has to do with the anti-God sacking of the Temple by the foul pagan Romans has zero to do with the point that the fact such an arch long predates the French, which was the poster’s assertion.
Indeed, contrary to the poster’s assertion of such an arch being “French”, the Romans, Hittites, Babylonians, Greeks, and Egyptians had similar structures.
And you missed my point entirely: To say that such arches predates that in Paris misses the point. Such arches as “triumphal” evoke the worst of imperial ambitions, regardless of their relative antiquity.