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This royal démenagement meant that anyone with money and power left the city of Paris to itself and settled in Versailles as well. Parisians were left to their own (de)vices and squalor, so it is no wonder that they were so fed up by 1789 that they started a revolution. Once Napoleon I had taken control of the city, some magnificent buildings and displays of power such as La Madeleine, l’Arc de Triomphe, and l’Arc du Carrousel sprang up. Napoleon I also established the Grandes Écoles where the intellectual elite still go to learn how to be teachers, administrators and engineers. This did not solve the problem of the slums around Notre Dame and the Quartier Latin, however. Improvements in this area took another few years and the intervention of Napoleon III who was worried about how to patrol the streets to keep them safe.