• Thumbnail for Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
    Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery (French: Cimetière russe de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois) is part of the Cimetière de Liers and is called the...
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    Paris. Remnants of it are the Bois de Boulogne, as well as the 5,100 ha Forêt Domaniale de la Londe-Rouvray in Normandy. The rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré was...
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  • Thumbnail for Aulnay-sous-Bois
    2015, Aulnay-sous-Bois forms one canton: Canton of Aulnay-sous-Bois. The city is part of the Syndicat d'équipement et d'aménagement des Pays de France et...
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  • Thumbnail for Cécile Bois
    Cécile Bois is a French actress. Cécile Bois grew up in Lormont, Gironde, France.[citation needed] While at school, Bois joined an amateur theatre troupe...
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    hectares (61 acres), 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...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between the rue de Seine and rue Mazarine...
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    Groslay, which was surrounded by the Forest of Bondy: hence the name of rue des Bois de Groslay. The end of nineteenth century was marked by industrialisation...
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    territory from the commune of Colombes. Bois-Colombes Townhall The Rue des Bourguignons c. 1910 Notre-Dame de Bon Secours Bois-Colombes is served by two stations...
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  • Thumbnail for Bois de Vincennes
    prostitution after dark. The Bois de Vincennes has a total area of 995 hectares (2,459 acres), making it slightly larger than the Bois de Boulogne, (846 hectares...
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  • Thumbnail for Fontenay-sous-Bois
    as Fontenay-les-Bois (meaning "Fontenay by the woods"), Fontenay-sur-le-Bois (meaning "Fontenay over the wood"), or Fontenay-sous-Bois (meaning "Fontenay...
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    Place Royale/Koningsplein, the Rue de la Régence/Regentschapsstraat crosses the Sablon/Zavel Quarter (French: Quartier des Sablons, Dutch: Zavelwijk), made...
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  • Thumbnail for Haussmann's renovation of Paris
    Alphand created the Bois de Boulogne (1852–1858) to the west of Paris: the Bois de Vincennes (1860–1865) to the east; the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (1865–1867)...
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    Dominique(2007), Grammaire des jardins Parisiens, Parigramme (ISBN 978-2-84096-476-6) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bois de Boulogne. Bois de Boulogne in...
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  • Arrondissement of Angers Rue Christophe Colomb, 91700, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Municipality, Arrondissement of Palaiseau Rue Christophe Colomb, 11000...
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    Stade Français rugby union club. The Bois de Boulogne, the second-largest public park in Paris (behind only the Bois de Vincennes), is also located in this...
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  • Thumbnail for Rue Foyatier
    historique des rues de Paris [Historical dictionary of Paris streets] (8th ed.). de Minuit. p. 543. ISBN 978-2-7073-1054-5. Media related to Rue Foyatier...
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  • Thumbnail for Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
    including parc Montreau and parc des Beaumonts, bordering on Romainville, Noisy-le-Sec, Rosny-sous-Bois and Fontenay-sous-Bois). Decorations (ceramics and...
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  • in the Bois de Boulogne; African prostitutes in Barbès-Rochechouart as well as in vans known as "BMC" (Bordel militaire de campagne) in the Bois de Vincennes...
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  • Thumbnail for Catacombs of Paris
    of these cemeteries, a burial ground around the 5th-century Notre-Dame-des-Bois church, became the property of the Saint-Opportune parish after the original...
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    strip of workshops, and the first part of the promenade plantée (from rue Picpus to rue Michel Bizot) was opened one year later. The occupation of the vaults...
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  • Thumbnail for Place des Victoires
    Place des Victoires is at the confluence of six streets: the Rue de la Feuillade, Rue Vide-Gousset, Rue d'Aboukir, Rue Étienne-Marcel, Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs...
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  • Thumbnail for Jardin des Plantes du Mans
    Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who also designed Paris's Parc Monceau, Bois de Boulogne, and Bois de Vincennes. It consists of two major sections linked by small...
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  • Thumbnail for Les Invalides
    The Hôtel des Invalides (French pronunciation: [o.tɛl dez ɛ̃valid]; lit. 'House of the Invalids'), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation:...
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  • Thumbnail for Commission scolaire des Affluents
    l'Étincelle (Terrebonne) de l'Orée-des-Bois (Terrebonne) des Hauts-Bois (Mascouche) des Moissons (Repentigny) des Pionniers (Terrebonne) du Boisé (Terrebonne)...
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  • Thumbnail for Hôtel Matignon
    construction of the Hôtel des Invalides, Louis XIV decided to restore the old "Chemin du Bois de la Garenne," which had become the "Rue de Varenne," that linked...
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  • Rue de Turbigo and 51, Rue Réaumur; entrance 5 - Rue des Vertus, only allowing exit from the platforms of line 11, located at the right of 22 Rue Réaumur...
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  • Thumbnail for Place des Martyrs, Brussels
    well as a theatre: the Théâtre des Martyrs. The Place des Martyrs is located in the Marais–Jacqmain Quarter, near the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat, Belgium's second...
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  • Thumbnail for Les Sablons station
    in the Bois de Boulogne 300 meters to the south. The Jardin is linked to the station area by the Boulevard des Sablons, whose name changes to Rue d’Orleans...
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  • Thumbnail for Parc Montsouris
    four large urban public parks, along with the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes and the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, created by Emperor Napoleon III...
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  • Thumbnail for Palais-Royal
    Palais-Royal (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
    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 entrance court...
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