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    Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. Westfield Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220...
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    de la Défense. Media related to Gare de la Défense at Wikimedia Commons La Défense station at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French) La Défense...
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    indoor arena. Its naming rights are held by Paris La Défense, the management company of the nearby La Défense business district. The venue offers three separate...
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    district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche...
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    Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (French: Conseil National Pour la Défense de la Démocratie – Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie...
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    Esplanade de La Défense (French pronunciation: [ɛsplanad də la defɑ̃s]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of La Défense on the border...
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  • Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert was a concert held by musician Jean-Michel Jarre on the district of La Défense in Paris on Bastille Day, 14 July...
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    Barrias Monument de la défense de Saint-Quentin La Défense de Paris at its original location, c. 1910, on the reused plinth La Défense de Paris, on a new...
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    Coeur Défense was built in 2001, replacing the former Esso Tower, the first building of the old generation to be destroyed in La Défense. Cœur Défense is...
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  • Élysées–La Défense (or Élysée–La Défense or La Défense–Élysée) is an aborted project for the construction of a station on the Paris Métro. During the 1970s...
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  • building in the Paris region is the Tour Link, at 242 meters, located in La Défense. It is tied for ninth place among the tallest buildings in the European...
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    head of EPAD [fr], the development agency for La Défense. Located in the Paris metropolitan area, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district...
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    "La Défense - La Verrière" or more often simply "ligne U", is a tangential commuter train link, which serves the western Paris region from La Défense....
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    renseignement et de la sécurité de la défense" (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2023 Projet de loi de finances pour 2004: Défense - Nucléaire, espace...
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    Paris. The university is located in the western suburb of Nanterre, in La Défense area, the business district of the Paris area. Paris Nanterre University...
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    June 2018 through a sponsorship deal with Paris La Défense, the company that manages the La Défense business district. Nanterre is twinned with: Craiova...
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    Congress for the Defence of the People (French: Congrès national pour la défense du peuple, CNDP) is a political armed militia established by Laurent Nkunda...
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    was a Danish architect, best known for designing the Grande Arche of La Défense in Puteaux, near Paris. He directed the creation of several modern churches...
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    Voltaire [fr], also in Puteaux and La Défense, once had the head office of BEA-TT, and BEAmer. The tax revenue of La Défense makes Puteaux one of the richest...
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    Conseil supérieur de la défense nationale ("High Council of National Defence" or CSDN); it was later known as the Comité de défense nationale ("Committee...
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  • soldier Cédric Cordier was attacked and stabbed in the Paris suburb of La Défense by a man who was later ruled by a court not to be criminally responsible...
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    The Parvis de la Défense is a square in Puteaux, located in the heart of the La Défense district, extending up to the Grande Arche. In the old division...
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    The National Defence Medal (French: "Médaille de la Défense nationale") is a French military decoration. It was created by Charles Hernu, Minister of Defence...
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    Paris (Paris Ouest La Défense University, Western Paris University La Défense) in 2 minutes. In 1935, five Tramway lines crossed La Garenne-Colombes. Many...
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    of Paris-La Défense (French: École Européenne Paris-La Défense) is a public Accredited European School in the business district of La Défense near Paris...
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    route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic...
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    and rail links between Neuilly and La Défense, over the river Seine - is in fact nearer to the Esplanade de la Défense metro station than to the Pont de...
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    Specifically located in the La Défense district, commune of Courbevoie, in the inner suburbs of Paris ^C Specifically located in the La Défense district, commune...
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    second (New Cemetery) is to be found in Nanterre, near La Défense and adjacent to Paris La Défense Arena, but belongs to Neuilly. It is called cimetière...
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    de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects La Défense in the northwest and Château de Vincennes in the southeast. With a length...
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