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    left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris [fr] church. According to custom, he was named after the patron saint of the church. D'Alembert...
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    The Théâtre du Rond-Point is a theatre in Paris, located at 2bis avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt, 8th arrondissement. The theatre began with an 1838 project...
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  • event was established in 1882, and it was originally called the Prix du Rond Point. It was initially run over 2,200 metres, and was cut to 2,000 metres in...
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    Charles de Gaulle. The original name of the area was the Butte Chaillot ("Chaillot Mound", named after the locality). At the time, it was the point of...
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    des Champs-Élysées between the Place de la Concorde on the east and the Rond-point des Champs-Élysées on the west and between Avenue Gabriel to the north...
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    1838-1843 : Hotel de la Vaupaliere, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré from 1843 : Hotel Le Hon, rond-point des Champs-Élysées Carlo Bronne, La comtesse Le Hon...
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    are: Charles de Gaulle – Étoile at the street's west end at Arc de Triomphe, George V by the Hôtel George-V, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the rond-point des...
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    Notre-Dame-du-Mont - Cours Julien Castellane (transfer: Tram T3, Metro M1) Périer Rond-Point du Prado Sainte-Marguerite Dromel Marseille Metro Marseille tramway List...
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    The Gare Saint-Lazare (lit. 'Saint Lazarus station'), officially Paris Saint Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris...
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    to the public on the first Tuesday of each month between Easter and All Saints' Day. The Garde-Meuble contained a chapel, a library, workshops, stables...
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    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Théâtre du Rond-Point Paris Métro stations Alma–Marceau Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle–Étoile Concorde Courcelles...
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    Charles de Gaulle–Étoile station (French: [ʃaʁl də ɡol etwal] ) is a station on Line 1, Line 2 and Line 6 of the Paris Métro, as well as on Île-de-France's...
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    Vecchi & Cerchiari (1999, p. 47) Cecchi, Alessandro (1987). "Les cadres ronds de la Renaissance florentine". Revue de l'art (in French). 76 (1): 21–24...
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    entered vassalage to the king of the West Franks, Charles the Simple, through the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte. In exchange for his homage and fealty...
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    venue for the 2024 Summer Olympics, is nearby. The Arc de Triomphe at Charles de Gaulle-Étoile. A 289 step staircase is open to the public and leads...
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    the church. A baptistry, called the Church of St. Jean-le-Rond, served both the early Saint-Etienne cathedral and Notre-Dame-de-Paris until its own demolition...
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    Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (category French Navy officers from Saint-Malo)
    Lagazette. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-16. Jeannot, Alain. "Le rond point de Labourdonnais à St Malo". Zinfos. Retrieved 2019-06-16. "RACISME :...
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    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Théâtre du Rond-Point Paris Métro stations Alma–Marceau Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle–Étoile Concorde Courcelles...
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    the church include Jacques Offenbach, Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Coco Chanel, Joséphine Baker, Charles Trenet, Dalida and Johnny Hallyday. The...
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    opened on 27 May 1923 with the extension of the line from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin. The Battle of Alma was a Franco-British victory against the Russians...
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    the growing population of Paris. A baptistery, the Church of Saint-John-le-Rond, built about 452, was located on the north side of the west front of Notre-Dame...
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    from German sniper fire August 1944. Rue Saint-Florentin is in the background. The square was the entry point of two major international expositions: the...
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    Catherine de' Medici (category Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis)
    Renaissance: Le mythe italien, 2018, ISBN 978-2753574069 Diderot, Denis; le Rond d'Alembert, Jean (1754). Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences...
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    métro station is Saint-Augustin In 1886, Saint-Augustin was the site of the conversion of Charles de Foucauld, who was canonised as a saint by Pope Francis...
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    which had previously belonged to the adjoining church of Notre-Dame-la-Rond. He reopened the windows which had been blocked by the 19th-century construction...
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    Saint-Augustin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿oɡystɛ̃]) is a station on Line 9 of the Paris Métro. Named after Place Saint-Augustin (itself named after Saint-Augustin...
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    their main store in 8th arrondissement, Avenue Montaigne or Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, both in the Champs-Élysées Avenue shopping district. As of 2019...
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    to Louis XV, in bronze, one for the Place de Reims, the other for the Rond Point of the Champs-Élysées. La Pudeur ("Modesty"); exhibited at the Salon of...
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    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Théâtre du Rond-Point Paris Métro stations Alma–Marceau Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle–Étoile Concorde Courcelles...
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    standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the...
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