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    the Place des Pyramides Giuseppe De Nittis, Place des Pyramides, 1876 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Place des Pyramides (Paris). Place des Pyramides...
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    Emmanuel Frémiet. The outdoor statue is prominently displayed in the Place des Pyramides in Paris. The original statue was commissioned by the French government...
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    Saint-Jacques Joan of Arc, Place des Pyramides Rue de Rivoli as it runs through Le Marais, in Paris' 4th arrondissement Rue des Archives, an adjoining street...
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    The Place des Vosges (French pronunciation: [plas de voʒ]), originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France. It is located in...
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    in Paris that opened in 1900. It is in the Place des Pyramides, across the Rue de Rivoli from the Jardin des Tuileries and an entrance to the Louvre. In...
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    "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 236 "Les statues des villes de la Concorde, formant les limites de la place, valorisent les richesses économiques du pays"...
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    The Hôtel des Invalides (French pronunciation: [o.tɛl dez ɛ̃valid]; lit. 'House of the Invalids'), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation:...
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    lower part of the Champs-Élysées, from the Place de la Concorde to the Rond-Point, runs through the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park which contains the...
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    and little building took place there; it was largely open fields, or prés, which gave the quarter its name. The Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey in the center...
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    Jacque-François (1752–1756). Architecture françoise, ou Recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils des églises, maisons royales, palais, hôtels & édifices les...
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    The Place des Victoires (French pronunciation: [plas de viktwaʁ]; English: Victory Square, lit. 'Square of Victories') is a circular square in central...
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    distinctive concrete ribs or razors. The inauguration of the Parc des Princes took place on 25 May 1972 on the occasion of the football match between France...
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    the association of Chinese travel agencies in France (Association Chinoise des Agences de Voyages en France), said "Chinese people romanticize France, they...
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    Pyramides station (French pronunciation: [piʁamid] ) is a station on lines 7 and 14 of the Paris Métro. The Pyramides metro station is located halfway...
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    the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, including the Musée national des Monuments Français, in the eastern (Paris) wing, from which one also enters...
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    today. The Place Vendôme was begun in 1698 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque, and called the Place des Conquêtes...
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    The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (French pronunciation: [paʁk de byt ʃomɔ̃]; English: Park of Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern Paris...
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    central of these cemeteries, a burial ground around the 5th-century Notre-Dame-des-Bois church, became the property of the Saint-Opportune parish after the...
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    the IRS." Some still feel the modernism of the edifice is out of place. The pyramid has a total of 673 panes, as confirmed by the Louvre, 603 rhombi and...
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    The Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of...
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    following their repatriation to France from Saint Helena in 1840, or retour des cendres, at the initiative of King Louis Philippe I and his minister Adolphe...
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    Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement...
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    grande salle à manger The Salon des Arcades is in three separate parts: the Salon des Arts, Salon des Sciences and Salon des Lettres. Léon Bonnat, Le Triomphe...
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    A monument to France's six Cup championships stands at the center of Place des Mousquetaires, a circular courtyard near the venue's entrance. In October...
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    Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two senior engineers working for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel. It was envisaged after discussion about a suitable...
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    remains of those who had requested cremation. The Communards' Wall (Mur des Fédérés), located within the cemetery, was the site where 147 Communards...
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    that a church had been built "in the place formerly called Mont de Mars, and then, by a happy change, 'Mont des Martyrs'." In 1134, King Louis VI purchased...
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    the Champs-Élysées. The name Élysée derives from the Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. The Élysée Palace has been the home...
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    he built a wide new street, Rue de Rivoli, from the Place de la Concorde to the Place des Pyramides. He made important improvements to the city's sewers...
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    Louvre (redirect from Salle des Etats)
    and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de...
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