• Éveline Geneviève Anna Garnier (6 May 1904 - 22 October 1989) was a significant figure in the Noyautage des administrations publiques, which aimed at...
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    successively changed to quai Napoléon (1865), quai du Commerce (1870), quai Francis Garnier (1896) and finally quai le Myre de Vilers (1920).: 300  On 11 August...
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    Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francis Xavier and five other companions bound themselves by vows in the Martyrium of Saint Denis, 11 Rue Yvonne Le Tac, the first...
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    1860 and 1865 in the extremely ornate Louis XIII style - like the Palais Garnier opera house, built at about the same time. Its dome was inspired by the...
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    Richelieu, which is a part of the Palais-Royal complex and located at 2, Rue de Richelieu on Place André-Malraux in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The...
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    Frantz Jourdain; Charles Garnier (1892). Exposition Universelle de 1889: Constructions élevées Au Champ de Mars Par M. Ch. Garnier ... Pour Servir À L'histoire...
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    Press, New York. pp. 389–390. Mead, Christopher Curtis (1991). Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism...
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    in part a reaction against the neo-Baroque of the Palais Garnier opera house by Charles Garnier, and other buildings of the Napoleon III style. The construction...
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    the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the intersection of Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is...
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    Julien Guadet, a Beaux Arts neoclassicist who had collaborated with Charles Garnier on the construction of the Paris Opera. Beyond the neoclassical rationalism...
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    Edition Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Brahman to Derrida, Taylor & Francis, 1998, p. 10: "Victor Cousin's eclectic". "Eclecticism in Therapy | in...
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    economic centre to the west of the city, in a triangle between the Opéra Garnier, La Défense and the Val de Seine. While the Paris economy is dominated...
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    illustrating the continents. It was designed by Francis de Saint-Vidal. The Coutan Fountain and central dome The Rue de Caire ("Street of Cairo") was a popular...
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    the French governor of Tonkin Hanoi Opera House modeled on the Palais Garnier in Hanoi Hanoi, State Bank of Vietnam headquarters in art-deco style Hanoi...
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    of 109, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs Entrance of 107 bis, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs Entrance of 107, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs Entrance of 128, rue d'Assas...
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    summer residence for many of the French monarchs, including Louis VII, Francis I, Henry II, Louis-Philippe, Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III. Though...
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    block in Paris, surrounded by rue de Richelieu (west), rue des Petits-Champs (south), rue Vivienne [fr] (east), and rue Colbert [fr] (north). There are...
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    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées which she then revived at the Opéra Garnier. At the Opéra Garnier, in 1923, she sang the role of Brünnhilde. In 1932, she premiered...
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    opera venue of Paris for a half century, until the opening of the Palais Garnier. The opera repertoire was largely familiar works of Gluck, Sacchini and...
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    de Triomphe (1806–1836) by Jean-François Chalgrin Palais Garnier (1861–1875) by Charles Garnier The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur (1874–1916) by Paul Abadie The...
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    Gauche Rue Basse Rue Bonaparte Rue Charlemagne Rue d'Argenteuil Rue de la Ferronnerie Rue de la Paix Rue de la Sourdière Rue de Montmorency Rue de Richelieu...
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    museums and monuments relating to the military history of France The Palais Garnier - Paris's central opera house, built in the later Second Empire period...
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    instruction, Goudchaux for finance, Arago for the navy, and Burdeau for war. Garnier-Pagès was mayor of Paris. But, in 1830, the republican-socialist party...
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    north by the faubourg Saint-Honoré, a road in the countryside continuing the Rue Saint-Honoré. Since the 13th century this area had been occupied by tile-making...
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    to perform a ballet called AOR (in Hebrew, "the light"), at the Palais Garnier. He also composed background music for ballet, theatre, television programs...
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    the (current) rue Jacob, to the East by the rue de l'Echaudée, to the south by the south side of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the rue Gozlin, and to...
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    on Rue de Sévigné, preserved in the later structure (16th c.) Detail of the portal sculpture on Rue de Sévigné Detail of portal sculpture on Rue de Sévigné...
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    fighting duels. In 1360 it was cut in half by a canal, at about the current Rue Poulettiere, in order to bring it into the protection of the new wall around...
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    authorized visitors) from the passage Richelieu connecting to the nearby rue de Rivoli. A secondary entrance at the Porte des Lions, near the western...
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    mémoires et ses lettres" in vol. 6 of the Causeries du lundi (4th ed., Garnier Frères, n.d., p. 198). Wellman, Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France...
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