The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl/ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named...
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metres (522 ft); the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. On 9 September 2008, La Défense celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge fireworks...
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Grande Arche (redirect from La Grande Arche de la Défense)
with the two of the highest buildings in Paris at the time, the Tour Eiffel and the Tour Montparnasse. The two sides of the Arche house government offices...
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de la Tour Eiffel lundi prochain". Les Inrocks. Retrieved 2019-01-14. Fraisse, Corentin (2018-10-10). "Cercle invite Nina Kraviz à mixer sur la Tour Eiffel ...
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Trocadéro, Paris (redirect from La Trocadéro)
of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. It is also the name of the 1878 Trocadéro Palace which was demolished...
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military. The nearest Métro stations are La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle, École Militaire, and Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel, an RER suburban-commuter-railway station...
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Exposition Universelle (1900) (section Eiffel Tower)
worldfairs.info. "Les points sur les i - Madame Choi". 28 July 2006. Vogel, Robert M. (1961). "Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889". United States...
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exposition's most popular attractions. Climbing the Eiffel Tower cost five Francs; admission to the popular panoramas, theatres and concerts was one franc. Visitors...
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Sainte-Grimonie (1886) in La Capelle The Astronomical Observatory in Nice (1881–1888, in collaboration with the engineer Gustave Eiffel) The information concerning...
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haute roche. L'habile main du constructeur a ménagé sur le penchant de la montagne, en taillant dans la roche, une ample demeure pourvue d'ouvertures rares...
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Jules (1864). La Tour Saint-Jacques de Paris, Volume 1. Paris: Debuisson & Cie. p. xi. Jean-François Lagneau, "La restauration de la tour Saint-Jacques"...
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of the palace, just outside the walls to the Tour Bonbec, he built a new ceremonial hall, the Salle sur l'eau. Philip IV (1285-1314) and his Chamberlain...
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It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel Tower. The bridge is widely regarded as the most ornate, extravagant bridge...
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Arc de Triomphe (redirect from La Marseillaise (sculpture))
January 2015. France 2 (13 July 1998). "France 98 : Nuit de fête sur les Champs-Elysées après la victoire (Archive INA)" [France 98: Night of celebration on...
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Mont Blanc (section Panorama)
barre la voie royale du toit des Alpes!". Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019. "Passage de la crevasse sur l'arête...
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in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May...
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la plus grande centrale solaire d'Île-de-France installée sur le parking visiteurs". Le Parisien. Retrieved 15 September 2023. "Disneyland Paris : la...
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régionaux sur les diplômes et la formation en 2009". INSEE. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013. La Préfecture de la Région...
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exhibition hall of the Grand Palais. It was used during the final stage of the Tour de France in 2017, as part of the promotion for Paris' 2024 Summer Olympics...
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is the second most popular tourist destination in the capital after the Eiffel Tower. The basilica was first proposed by Felix Fournier, the Bishop of...
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Petit Palais (redirect from Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris)
now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). The Petit Palais is located across from the Grand Palais...
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banker Raphaël Bischoffsheim. The architect was Charles Garnier; Gustave Eiffel designed the main dome. The 76-cm (30-inch) refractor telescope that became...
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Pont Neuf (section La Samaritaine)
Books. Lasteyrie, R. de (1882). "Documents inédits sur la construction du Pont-Neuf," Mémoires de la Société de l'Histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France...
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et la culture relatif au siège de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture et ses privilèges et immunités sur le territoire...
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Maurice Garin (category French Tour de France stage winners)
Pierre (1986), La Fabuleuse Histoire du Tour de France, La Martinière, France, p62 Augendre, Jacques (1996), Le Tour de France, Panorama d'un Siècle, Société...
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district, Vieux Lyon, also hosts the Tour métallique (a highly visible TV tower, replicating the last stage of the Eiffel Tower) and one of the city's railways...
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Completed in 1722, it was built for nobleman and army officer Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, who had been appointed Governor of Île-de-France in 1719. It...
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various theatrical projects – such as Jean Cocteau's Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel – he produced a series of works in brooding, unsettling, tones (Solitude...
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Man Ray, Samuel Beckett, Serge Gainsbourg and Susan Sontag are buried; Tour Montparnasse, a lone skyscraper. Students in the 17th century who came to...
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Boulogne la Petite, which was built in the forest at the command of Philip IV of France (1268–1314). In 1308, Philip made a pilgrimage to Boulogne-sur-Mer...
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