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    Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. Westfield Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220...
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    a cinquante ans la RATP mettait la Défense à quatre minutes de l'Etoile". defense-92.fr. 21 February 2020. File:Gare RATP La Défense.JPG "Buffet Froid...
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    indoor arena. Its naming rights are held by Paris La Défense, the management company of the nearby La Défense business district. The venue offers three separate...
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    Barrias Monument de la défense de Saint-Quentin La Défense de Paris at its original location, c. 1910, on the reused plinth La Défense de Paris, on a new...
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    district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche...
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    Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (French: Conseil National Pour la Défense de la Démocratie – Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie...
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  • Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert was a concert held by musician Jean-Michel Jarre on the district of La Défense in Paris on Bastille Day, 14 July...
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    "La Défense - La Verrière" or more often simply "ligne U", is a tangential commuter train link, which serves the western Paris region from La Défense....
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    Congress for the Defence of the People (French: Congrès national pour la défense du peuple, CNDP) is a political armed militia established by Laurent Nkunda...
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  • Élysées–La Défense (or Élysée–La Défense or La Défense–Élysée) is an aborted project for the construction of a station on the Paris Métro. During the 1970s...
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    renseignement et de la sécurité de la défense" (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2023 Projet de loi de finances pour 2004: Défense - Nucléaire, espace...
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    Esplanade de La Défense (French pronunciation: [ɛsplanad də la defɑ̃s]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of La Défense on the border...
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    June 2018 through a sponsorship deal with Paris La Défense, the company that manages the La Défense business district. Nanterre is twinned with: Craiova...
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    head of EPAD [fr], the development agency for La Défense. Located in the Paris metropolitan area, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district...
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    Paris. The university is located in the western suburb of Nanterre, in La Défense area, the business district of Paris. Nanterre was built in the 1960s...
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    was a Danish architect, best known for designing the Grande Arche of La Défense in Puteaux, near Paris. He directed the creation of several modern churches...
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    Coeur Défense was built in 2001, replacing the former Esso Tower, the first building of the old generation to be destroyed in La Défense. Cœur Défense is...
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  • Arche de La Défense, the Great Arch of La Défense, is a monumental building located at the northern terminus of the Grand Louvre–Place de la Concorde–Champs-Elysées–Arc...
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  • Paris region's high-rise buildings are located in three distinct areas: La Défense, located just west of the City of Paris in the département of the Hauts-de-Seine...
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    Conseil supérieur de la défense nationale ("High Council of National Defence" or CSDN); it was later known as the Comité de défense nationale ("Committee...
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    under central Paris that connects the RER E to La Défense. The extension will continue past La Défense to allow the RER E to take over the branch of the...
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    of Paris-La Défense (French: École Européenne Paris-La Défense) is a public Accredited European School in the business district of La Défense near Paris...
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  • soldier Cédric Cordier was attacked and stabbed in the Paris suburb of La Défense by a man who was later ruled by a court not to be criminally responsible...
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    Coalition for the Defence of the Republic (French: Coalition pour la Défense de la République, CDR) was a Rwandan far-right Hutu Power political party...
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    route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic...
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    de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects La Défense in the northwest and Château de Vincennes in the southeast. With a length...
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    The Parvis de la Défense is a square in Puteaux, located in the heart of the La Défense district, extending up to the Grande Arche. In the old division...
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    Specifically located in the La Défense district, commune of Courbevoie, in the inner suburbs of Paris ^C Specifically located in the La Défense district, commune...
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    The National Defence Medal (French: "Médaille de la Défense nationale") is a French military decoration. It was created by Charles Hernu, Minister of Defence...
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    La Défense et illustration de la langue française (English: The defense and illustration of the French language) is a literary theory text written during...
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