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    Parc de la Villette is served by Paris Métro stations Corentin Cariou on Line 7 and Porte de Pantin on Line 5. The park was designed by Bernard Tschumi,...
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    The Bassin de la Villette (La Villette Basin) is the largest artificial lake in Paris. It was filled with water on 2 December 1808. Located in the 19th...
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    Pierre-Marie-Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette (24 February 1804 – 6 March 1850), better known simply as Charles de Bernard, was a French writer...
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    Parc de La Villette competition commission. In 1988, he opened Bernard Tschumi Architects (BTA), headquartered in New York City. In 2002, Bernard Tschumi...
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    The Grande halle de la Villette (originally: Grande Halle aux Boeufs; translation: "Great Hall of Cattle"), formerly a slaughterhouse and now a cultural...
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    1967 FGDS 1968 1970 Jean Lafon 1973 Francis Hardy UDR 1978 RPR 1981 Bernard Villette PS 1986 Proportional representation - no election by constituency 1988...
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    Villette Sonique is an annual music festival in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, featuring a combination of experimental music, noise rock, electronic...
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  • city skyline", included the Louvre Pyramid, Musée d'Orsay, Parc de la Villette, Arab World Institute, Opéra Bastille, Grande Arche de La Défense, Ministry...
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    work by French artist Jean-Max Albert installed in 1986 in the Parc de la Villette, Paris, France. It is named after the author of The Poetics of Space, Gaston...
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    Glucksmann (who was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent) and Françoise Glucksmann (née Villette), daughter of philosopher Jeannette Colombel. Between 2005 and 2012, he...
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    Cristo after Alexandre Dumas, directed by Jacques Weber, Grande Halle de la Villette 1987 : Dom Juan by Molière, directed by Francis Huster, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault...
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    Villette-lès-Dole (French pronunciation: [vilɛt lɛ dɔl], literally Villette near Dole) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
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    de la Villette architectural design competition, in particular the entry from Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman and the winning entry by Bernard Tschumi...
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    Villette-de-Vienne (French pronunciation: [vilɛt də vjɛn], literally Villette of Vienne) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France....
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    qualification in general mechanics. He was then hired by the SNCF yard at Paris-la-Villette. In 1977, he joined the Confédération générale du travail, and was put...
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    Lake Geneva. The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux, Riex and Villette (Lavaux) merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux...
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    indicated by one of the Sculptures Bachelard set in Paris, Parc de la Villette. In this work, the anamorphosis appears as a reflection of a bronze construction...
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  • (certainly, the fragment of a novel called Emma is no indication), but Villette remains as the ..." Seymour, Miranda (2 May 2004). "'Emma Brown': Reader...
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    houses the works of sculptors Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel Parc de la Villette - hosting the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, a science museum, and...
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    Villette-d'Anthon (French pronunciation: [vilɛt dɑ̃tɔ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Communes of the Isère department...
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    Villette-sur-Ain (French pronunciation: [vilɛt syʁ ɛ̃], literally Villette on Ain) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is located...
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    autoroute A1 Porte d'Aubervilliers : route nationale 301 Porte de la Villette : route nationale 2 Porte de Pantin : route nationale 3 Porte Chaumont...
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    access routes to it: by the Porte d'Aubervilliers and by the Porte de la Villette. These roads provide easy access to the network of roads and motorways...
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  • outstanding Belgian strikers in the interwar period were former top scorer Bernard Voorhoof and "Belgium's football grandmaster" Raymond Braine, considered...
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    Muille-Villette is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The commune is situated on the D932 road, some 15 miles (24 km)...
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    Lavaux-Oron. The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux, Riex and Villette (Lavaux) merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux...
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  • l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris (1985–1986). Project coordinator "Maison de la communication du Nord-Pas de Calais" (1985–1986, together with Bernard Stiegler)...
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    Paris, France (18th century) Parc de la Villette in Paris has a number of modern follies by architect Bernard Tschumi. The Ideal Palace of Ferdinand Cheval...
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    its last brothel in 1995] (Interview) (in French). Guerres & Histoire. Bernard B. Fall, Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina, Pen & Sword...
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    d'Oliva, a prostitute who happened to look like Marie Antoinette; Rétaux de Villette, a forger; Alessandro Cagliostro, an Italian adventurer; and the Count...
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