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    Avignon. The Palais was built in two principal phases with two distinct segments, known as the Palais Vieux (Old Palace) and Palais Neuf (New Palace)...
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    world). It is also the site of the city's oldest surviving bridge, the Pont Neuf. Even with the departure of the French kings to the Louvre Palace across...
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    The Palais-Royal (French: [pa.lɛ ʁwa.jal]) is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened...
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    The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ palɛ de ʃɑ̃z‿elize]; English: Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as the...
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    The Élysée Palace (French: Palais de l'Élysée, pronounced [palɛ də lelize]) is the official residence of the President of the French Republic in Paris...
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    Accor Arena (originally known as the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy), also known as Bercy Arena, is an indoor sports arena and concert hall in the neighbourhood...
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    The Petit Palais (French: [pəti palɛ]; English: Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Exposition...
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    The Palais Bourbon (pronounced [pa.lɛ buʁ.bɔ̃]) is the meeting place of the National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French Parliament....
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    prefigure the major Sainte-Chapelle which Saint Louis built within the Palais de la Cité at Paris between 1240 and 1248. Both buildings were built by...
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    The Palais de la Cité (French pronunciation: [palɛ d(ə) la site]), located on the Île de la Cité in the Seine River in the centre of Paris, is a major...
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    François Lanno (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    facade of the Palais des Études Portrait de Guillaume Gouffier, bust, plaster, Palace of Versailles, Versailles Apollon et les neuf Muses, 1835, ten...
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    construction of Paris's first uncovered, sidewalk-lined bridge, the Pont Neuf, built a Louvre extension connecting it to the Tuileries Palace, and created...
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    Jean-François Chalgrin Palais Garnier (1861–1875) by Charles Garnier The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur (1874–1916) by Paul Abadie The Grand Palais (1897–1900), by Henri...
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    the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park which contains the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the Théâtre Marigny, and several restaurants, gardens, and monuments...
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    Cluny: Le Guide. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais. p. 7. ISBN 978-2-7118-5631-2. Bardiès-Fronty, Isabelle (2015). Musée de...
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    beach volleyball and blind football tournaments at the games. The Grand Palais Éphémère was built in 2021 at the south end of the Champ to host Olympic...
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    of the city's most famous parks and monuments, including the Pont Neuf, the Palais Royal, the newly joined Louvre and Tuileries Palace, the Place des...
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  • Ivan Fedele World premiere : 11/05/2000 - Strasbourg, Oratoire du Temple-Neuf - Ensemble du Conservatoire de Strasbourg Skiaï (1998–1999) five instruments...
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    ballroom, and a marketplace. The new building of the National Assembly, in the Palais Bourbon, at the other end of the former Rue Royale, was given a classical...
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    March 3, 1494, the councilors of Rouen decided to construct a large hall at Neuf Marché, now known as the Salle des Procureurs (Prosecutors' room), to serve...
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    Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, which left behind the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, and the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and...
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    of his historic 1804 meeting with Pope Pius VII, who had travelled from Rome to crown Napoleon emperor. Apartments were refurnished and decorated for...
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    Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, n°72, p. 81-91 "Marcel Duchamp. Neuf moules malics", Revue du Louvre, n°1, p. 56-61 "Otto Dix. Erinnerung an die...
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    landmarks in Paris during construction, but was not finished until 1919. Le Pont-Neuf by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1872) Paris Street; Rainy Day by Caillebotte (1877)...
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    created at Place Dauphine and the Place Royal, now Place des Vosges. The Pont Neuf was constructed over the Île de la Cité, adding a major link between the...
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    du Carrousel was impeded from any view westward. The central part of the Palais des Tuileries intervened to block the line of sight to the west. When the...
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    the Pont Neuf. The fountain technician Thomas Francini, who had worked on fountains in the new gardens of the Medici villas in Florence and Rome, found...
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    Château-Vieux (Old Castle) burned down in 1795 and was rebuilt as the Château-Neuf (New Castle), which in turn burned down in 1871. Demolition was considered...
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    monuments with triumphant patriotic messages. Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 m (164 ft), width...
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    of Artillery in 1599. Henry IV recommenced the construction of the Pont Neuf, started by Henry III in 1578, but left unfinished during the wars of religion...
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