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    Esther Lachmann (French: [ɛstɛʁ laʃman]; better known as La Païva (French: [la paiva]); 7 May 1819 – 21 January 1884) was the most famous of the 19th-century...
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    The Hôtel de la Païva ("Mansion of La Païva") is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, that was built between 1856 and 1866, at 25...
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    December 1860. La Païva, a wealthy French courtesan, later commissioned the painting from Gérôme, intending it for display in the Hôtel de la Païva, her mansion...
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    (1894-1896) La Fleur blanche contained a lavishly carved mahogany bed. It was reputed to have been commissioned by French courtesan La Païva, but she never...
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    1930) to create a shimmering semi-translucent interior wall. The Hôtel de la Païva in Paris is noted for its yellow onyx décor, and the new Mariinsky Theatre...
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  • Valtesse de La Bigne Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange Geneviève Lantelme Méry Laurent Ninon de l'Enclos Léonie Léon Marie-Louise O'Murphy La Païva Justine Paris...
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    The Place de la Concorde (French: [plas də la kɔ̃kɔʁd]; lit. 'Concord Square') is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 7.6 ha (19...
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    La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of...
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    Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs-Élysées. His work was mostly in marble, in a Romantic realist...
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    L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine), or less formally, La Madeleine, is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It...
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    such as posting indiscreet photos on Twitter, have earned her the nickname la scandaleuse ("the scandalous one") in the French press. Dehar achieved celebrity...
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    La Chapelle Arena (also known by its project name Paris Arena II and its trade name Adidas Arena) is a multi-purpose and modular hall located in La Chapelle...
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    his mistress (later wife), Pauline Thérèse Lachmann, Marquise de Païva, known as La Païva, the most successful of 19th century French courtesans. He engaged...
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    Camille Claudel Parc de la Villette - hosting the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, a science museum, and the Cité de la Musique, which houses various...
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    Paris were built for "cocottes", such as that of Esther Lachmann, known as la Païva, on the Champs-Élysées. Rudorff, Raymond. "Courtesans and Prostitutes"...
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    Eiffel Tower (redirect from La Tour Eiffel)
    company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed as the centerpiece...
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  • Fisher (died 1767), British courtesan and model La Belle Otero (1868–1965), Spanish courtesan La Païva (1819–1884), French demimonde-courtesan ('Grande...
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    Paris La Défense Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. Opened in October 2017, it was developed by the rugby union...
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    June 2014). "La réouverture des salles d'objets d'art du Louvre, de Louis XIV à Louis XVI". La Tribune de l'Art. "Elias Crespin, l'art de la ligne au Louvre"...
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    syndrome described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini in her book La sindrome di Stendhal. Although the BBC reported in 2006 that the Japanese...
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    La Grande Arche de la Défense (French: [la ɡʁɑ̃d aʁʃ də la defɑ̃s]; "The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité...
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    remains from most of Paris's cemeteries to a mine shaft opened near the Rue de la Tombe-Issoire. [fr] The ossuary remained largely forgotten until it became...
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    Île de la Cité (French: [il də la site]; English: City Island) is an island in the river Seine in the center of Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site...
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    2004 (consulté le 18 octobre 2018). « Pourquoi veut-on la peau du Sacré-Cœur ? » "Pourquoi veut-on la peau du Sacré-Cœur?" Liberation, February 27, 2017 Ouest-France...
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    on a 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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    replied "no, she left through the back door". "La tragédie del'Impasse Ronsin : Mme Steinheil au seuil de la Cour d'Assises". Le Petit Parisien. 1 November...
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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 the...
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    22 January 2019 "Paris perd ses habitants, la faute à la démographie et aux... meublés touristiques pour la Ville." Le Parisien, 28 December 2017 "Statistics...
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    Valtesse de La Bigne Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange Geneviève Lantelme Méry Laurent Ninon de l'Enclos Léonie Léon Marie-Louise O'Murphy La Païva Justine Paris...
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  • Moulin de la Galette The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since...
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