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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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    Universal Exposition of 1900. That exposition also produced the adjacent Petit Palais and Pont Alexandre III. The building was designed to be a large-scale...
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    Palace. Major structures built for the exposition include the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the Pont Alexandre III, the Gare d'Orsay railroad station and...
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    collections were transferred to the newly created Musée d'Orsay. The Musée du Petit Palais opened in 1976 in the former urban mansion of the archbishops of Avignon...
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    The Musée du Petit Palais is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of "primitives"...
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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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    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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  • 1960s in the UK Palais, French for palace Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris Palais River in the French...
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    Seine to the south. It includes within its boundaries the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, as well as a theater and other buildings. It was one of the...
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    The Trocadéro (pronounced [tʁɔkadeʁo] ), site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from...
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    Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Most of the forty-three dead of the Puisseguin...
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    reinvention of French 17th and 18th century classicism in the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, the new building of the Sorbonne. The new railroad stations, office...
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    Le Sommeil (category Paintings in the Petit Palais)
    as a tribute to Courbet. Today Le Sommeil is in the collection of the Petit Palais, a Parisian museum. The painting shows two naked women lying asleep on...
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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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    Vulci (Berlin F2531), and a fifth-century BC red-figure krater (Paris, Petit Palais 868), in both engaged in single combat with Zeus, and a late sixth-century/early...
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    Renaissance cornucopias on a plate, by Giorgio Andreoli, 1531, maiolica, Petit Palais, Paris Renaissance relief of Ceres, on the east facade of the Lescot...
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  • sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons, which is located outside the Petit Palais in Paris, France. It is one of Koons's largest sculptures, and his first...
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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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    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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    decoration, for example under the peristyle in the courtyard of the Petit Palais in Paris, built for the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition. It also appears...
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    Universal Exposition gave Paris the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the first Paris Métro line. Paris became the laboratory of...
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    Marie Bracquemond. A larger version (88 × 115) is held by the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva, Switzerland, while a smaller version (56.8 × 64.5) is held...
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    national and foreign art indépendant was then preferably held in the Petit Palais and the Musée du Jeu de Paume. Although due to open in 1939, construction...
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  • in Paris. The night. The Dragon. Petit Palais. North entrance lounge: L'Aurore boréale, 1892 (ceiling), Petit Palais. Fléau!, 1901, Musée d'Orsay. Chez...
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    that were to replace it: the Grand Palais and Petit Palais built for the 1900 World Fair. The entrance of the Palais de l'Industrie was crowned by Élias...
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    on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018. L'Abeille (in French). Petit Séminaire de Québec. 1848. Archived from the original on 12 January 2023...
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    Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The first Salon d'Automne was created in 1903...
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    du Petit Palais (Paris, France); Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Bussierre, Sophie de, eds. (1986). Rembrandt, eaux-fortes: Musée du Petit Palais, Collection...
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    holding in Piaget and Baume & Mercier. From 1989 to 1990, the Musée du Petit Palais staged an exhibition of the Cartier collection, "L'Art de Cartier." Perrin...
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    The Palais de Justice (French pronunciation: [palɛ də ʒystis]; '"Palace of Justice"), is a judicial center and courthouse in Paris, located on the Île...
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