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    The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon, is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. It handles about 148.1 million passengers...
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    Notre-Dame cathedral, and the royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, as well as the city hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu (possibly the oldest continuously operating hospital...
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    westward advance of Attila. Châlons-en-Champagne in 1623 Hôtel de la Haute Mère Dieu in the 19th century Saint Etienne's cathedral, including parts of...
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    Notre-Dame de Lorette, making room for connection between the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est. Finishing the place in front of the Gare du...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    railway stations (Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est, Gare de Lyon, Gare d'Austerlitz, Gare Montparnasse, Gare Saint-Lazare) and a minor one (Gare de Bercy) are connected...
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    since it was established in September 2010. Chapelle de la Salpêtrière (Hospital Chapel), at n° 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital is one of the masterpieces of Libéral...
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    Later work by Dr. Youcef Mahmoudia, a psychiatrist with the hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, indicates that Paris syndrome is "psychopathology related to travel...
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    filled with centuries of Parisian dead, plus the remains from the Hôtel-Dieu hospital and the Morgue; other Parisian parishes had their own burial grounds...
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    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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    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 de...
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    to the Impressionists. During the celebration of the Corpus Christi (Fête-Dieu), the Place Dauphine hosted one of the most magnificent reposoirs (portable...
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    University, with the École de Médecine; the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, with the École Normale Supérieure, the Collège de France, the École des Mines...
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    Lyon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    station, Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu. North of this district lays the sixth arrondissement, which is home to one of Europe's largest urban parks, the Parc de la...
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    (1758). Essai d'une histoire de la paroisse de St. Jacques de la Boucherie: ou l'on traité de l'Origine de cette Eglise, de ses Antiquités. Paris: Prault...
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    Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully† Urbain de Maillé-Brézé† Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné† Armand de Vignerot du Plessis† Catherine de Vivonne...
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    river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located). Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest...
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    year 475 AD, St. Genevieve purchased some land and built Saint-Denys de la Chapelle. In 636, on the orders of Dagobert I, the relics of Saint Denis, a patron...
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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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    Maison de Victor Hugo (English: Victor Hugo's House) is a writer's house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848. It...
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    Saint-Lô (redirect from Gare de Saint Lô)
    which contribute strongly to the current growth of the agglomeration. The Gare de Saint-Lô is served by TER trains on the Caen – Rennes railway line [fr]...
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    historique des curiosités de l'eglise de Paris, contenant le détail de l'édifice, tant extérieur qu'intérieur, le trésor, les chapelles, tombeaux, épitaphes...
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    on Place Saint-Gervais in the Marais district, east of City Hall (Hôtel de Ville). The current church was built between 1494 and 1657, on the site of...
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    pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁ pɔ̃pidu]), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (lit. 'National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and...
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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 the...
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    glass by Etienne Thevenot (1840), modelled after the windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, with scenes depicting the life of Christ. The altar dates to...
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    Channel Islands operated by Condor Ferries. It also has a railway station, Gare de Saint-Malo, offering direct TGV service to Rennes, Paris and several regional...
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    they were purchased in 1897 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans to build the Gare d'Orsay for the Exposition Universelle (1900). France...
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    August 1914 saw patriotic demonstrations on the Place de la Concorde and at the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord as the mobilized soldiers departed for the...
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    later became the municipal library, the Bibliothèque Méjanes Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin (1732–1804), Archbishop of Aix Victor d'Hupay (1746–1818)...
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    Breisgau in Germany and Luxembourg. Gare de Besançon-Viotte, the main railway station, sits in the centre of the city. Gare de Besançon Franche-Comté TGV is...
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