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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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 Matignon (French: Hôtel de Matignon, pronounced [otɛl də matiɲɔ̃]) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of France. It is located in...
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(Philadelphia) was based on the Place de la Concorde and includes near-copies of the Hôtel de Crillon and Hôtel de la Marine and an allegorical fountain...
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Hôtel de Crillon". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved 22 November 2018. "Hôtel de la Marine". Centre des monuments nationaux. Retrieved 7 July 2017. "Hôtel de...
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The Hôtel de Sully is a Louis XIII style hôtel particulier, or private mansion, located at 62 rue Saint-Antoine in the Marais, IV arrondissement, Paris...
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The Hôtel Lambert (French: [otɛl lɑ̃bɛːʁ]) is an hôtel particulier, a grand mansion townhouse, built between 1640 and 1644 on the Quai Anjou on the eastern...
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combines Roman-era thermae, the Thermes de Cluny, including a well-preserved frigidarium, and the 15th-century Hôtel de Cluny [fr], the Parisian mansion of...
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Adidas Arena (redirect from Porte de La Chapelle Arena)
marché global de performance | CCI Business Grand Paris". grandparis.ccibusiness.fr. "Le chantier de la future Arena 2 lancé Porte de la Chapelle". CNEWS...
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The Hôtel de Sens (French pronunciation: [otɛl də sɑ̃s]) or Hôtel des archevêques de Sens is a 16th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in...
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Paris Fashion Week (redirect from Semaine de la mode de Paris)
Paris Fashion Week (French: Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer...
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Musée Carnavalet (redirect from Musée historique de la Ville de Paris)
The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann,...
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The Hôtel de Pontalba (French pronunciation: [otɛl də pɔ̃talba]) is an hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse in France, at 41 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré...
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The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade...
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Louis-Ernest Barrias (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome. Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs-Élysées...
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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...
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are La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle, École Militaire, and Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel, an RER suburban-commuter-railway station. A disused station, Champ de Mars...
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Élysée Palace (redirect from Hôtel d'Evreux)
this in 1718 to Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Évreux, with the agreement that Mollet would construct an hôtel particulier for the count,...
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Retrieved 5 October 2021. Hôtel des Invalides website Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. "History of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris". Places...
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Grande Arche (redirect from La Grande Arche de la Défense)
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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wide, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known...
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Montparnasse Cemetery (redirect from Cimetiere de Montparnasse)
consisted of three farms that belonged to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital and an estate of the Brothers of Charity (frères de la Charité). During this time monks built...
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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...
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Musée Picasso (redirect from Hôtel Salé)
(English: Picasso Museum) is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé (English: Salé Hall) in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, France, dedicated...
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Parc des Buttes Chaumont (section Temple de la Sibylle)
it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden. Opened in 1867, late in...
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Sacré-Cœur, Paris (redirect from Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre)
1944 when La Nueve – 9th Company, Régiment de marche du Tchad of the French 2nd Armored Division – broke into Paris and arrived at the Hôtel de Ville during...
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Catacombs of Paris (redirect from Catacombes de Paris)
ground around a Saint-Etienne church and burial ground (behind the present Hôtel de Ville), and urban expansion on the Right Bank began in earnest after other...
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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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The Place de la République (French pronunciation: [plas də la ʁepyblik]; English: Republic Square; known until 1879 as the Place du Château d'Eau, [plas...
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The Hôtel de Beauvais is a hôtel particulier, a kind of large townhouse of France, at 68 rue Francois-Miron, 4th arrondissement, Paris. Until 1865 rue...
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