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    The Gare du Nord (pronounced [ɡaʁ dy nɔːʁ]; English: North Station), officially Paris Nord, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini...
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    The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War by the Allies against German positions on the Western Front...
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    Louvre (redirect from Musee du Louvre)
    Louvre (English: /ˈluːv(rə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is...
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    replanted with lime trees and were rechristened the Quinconce du Nord and the Quinconce du Midi (Marie 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984; Thompson 2006; Verlet 1985)...
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    The station is located on the underground section of the RER line E, immediately east of the Gare du Nord station. It follows the Haussmann-Saint-Lazare...
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    to Pointe-aux-Trembles, on the eastern tip of the island, and to Montréal-Nord, in the northeast. With its estimated cost of $10 billion, it would have...
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    50°17′N 3°07′E / 50.283°N 3.117°E / 50.283; 3.117 The Canal du Nord (French pronunciation: [kanal dy nɔʁ], literally Canal of the North) is a 95-kilometre...
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    V. It was bordered on the south by the Seine, and on the north by the faubourg Saint-Honoré, a road in the countryside continuing the Rue Saint-Honoré...
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    the Revolution, he was a member of the Civil Committee for the Section du Faubourg-du-Nord [fr]. The committee's notes refer to him as a painter. In 1794...
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    The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]; English: Jacques Chirac Museum of Branly Quay), located...
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    appointed Governor of Île-de-France in 1719. It is located on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré near the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris...
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    (now Jacques Bonsergent) to Gare du Nord. The line 4 platforms were opened on 21 April 1908 as part of the first section of the line from Châtelet to Porte...
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    Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine...
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    Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise [simtjɛʁ dy pɛʁ laʃɛːz]; formerly cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery...
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  • Paris' "Sentier" textile industry district. Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, which runs along Gare du Nord, is the domain of Indian shops (clothes, Bollywood...
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    people. Rue du Pré-de-la-Bataille is located in Rouen. It stands in place of the former Pré de la Bataille, which later became part of the faubourg Cauchoise...
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    1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal,...
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    Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery...
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    l'abri Pataud in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac and the Harmas de Fabre in Sérignan-du-Comtat, Four scientific sites, the Institut de Paléontologie humaine in Paris...
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    Gare de l'Est, the station has only one access, in front of 188 Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. A second (exit-only by escalator) exit was located a few...
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    unused section of track, often used as a backdrop in films. In 2018, the busiest stations were Saint-Lazare (46.7 million passengers), Gare du Nord (45.8)...
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    Nearly half its length (2,069 metres (2,263 yd)), between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille, was covered in the mid-19th century...
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    the second-busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world and the busiest outside...
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    Boulevard Magenta; Place de la République, Rue du Faubourg-du-Temple; Place de la République, Rue du Faubourg du Temple side; Place de la République; Place...
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    Palace. The station opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette...
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    "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 235 Hillairet, Jacques, "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 235 Hillairet, Jacques, "Connaissance du Vieux Paris"...
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    Palais de la Cité (in French). Editions du Patrimoine. ISBN 978-2-85822298-8. Hillairet, Jacques (2017). Connaissance du Vieux Paris (in French). Payot. ISBN 9782228919111...
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    French). Retrieved 14 June 2019. Pigenet, Michel (2008). Mémoires du travail à Paris: faubourg des métallos, Austerlitz-Salpêtrière, Renault-Billancourt (in...
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    a collection of royal French furniture. The exhibits are divided into sections: the Dutuit Collection of medieval and Renaissance paintings, drawings...
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    Museums managed by Paris Musées. Although the ossuary comprises only a small section of the underground mines of Paris, Parisians often refer to the entire...
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