The Petit Palais (French: [pəti palɛ]; English: Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Exposition...
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Universal Exposition of 1900. That exposition also produced the adjacent Petit Palais and Pont Alexandre III. The building was designed to be a large-scale...
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collections were transferred to the newly created Musée d'Orsay. The Musée du Petit Palais opened in 1976 in the former urban mansion of the archbishops of Avignon...
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Palace. Major structures built for the exposition include the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the Pont Alexandre III, the Gare d'Orsay railroad station and...
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The Musée du Petit Palais is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of "primitives"...
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Élysée Palace (redirect from Palais de l'Élysée)
The Élysée Palace (French: Palais de l'Élysée, pronounced [palɛ də lelize]) is the official residence of the President of the French Republic in Paris...
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1960s in the UK Palais, French for palace Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris Palais River in the French...
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the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park which contains the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the Théâtre Marigny, and several restaurants, gardens, and monuments...
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reinvention of French 17th and 18th century classicism in the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, the new building of the Sorbonne. The new railroad stations, office...
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Universal Exposition gave Paris the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the first Paris Métro line. Paris became the laboratory of...
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Le Sommeil (category Paintings in the Petit Palais)
as a tribute to Courbet. Today Le Sommeil is in the collection of the Petit Palais, a Parisian museum. The painting shows two naked women lying asleep on...
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Seine to the south. It includes within its boundaries the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, as well as a theater and other buildings. It was one of the...
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of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter (today in the Petit Palais in Paris), which Cézanne ironically signed as Ingres, whose works he...
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Trocadéro, Paris (section Palais du Trocadéro)
The Trocadéro (pronounced [tʁɔkadeʁo] ), site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from...
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Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, which left behind the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, and the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and...
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on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018. L'Abeille (in French). Petit Séminaire de Québec. 1848. Archived from the original on 12 January 2023...
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that were to replace it: the Grand Palais and Petit Palais built for the 1900 World Fair. The entrance of the Palais de l'Industrie was crowned by Élias...
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history of the city, opened in 1880. After the 1900 world exhibition, the Petit Palais became an art museum, displaying many works owned by the city of Paris...
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Pont Alexandre III links this grand urbanistic axis with the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais. The Pont des Invalides is next, downstream the Seine river...
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The 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...
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holding in Piaget and Baume & Mercier. From 1989 to 1990, the Musée du Petit Palais staged an exhibition of the Cartier collection, "L'Art de Cartier." Perrin...
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The Palais de Justice (French pronunciation: [palɛ də ʒystis]; '"Palace of Justice"), is a judicial center and courthouse in Paris, located on the Île...
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"L'inventeur d'un parachute se lance de le tour Eiffel et s'écrase sur le sol". Le Petit Parisien (in French). 5 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved 26 November 2009...
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The Birth of Venus (Gervex) (category Paintings in the Petit Palais)
a 1907 painting by the French artist Henri Gervex. It is now in the Petit Palais, in Paris. It depicts the Greek goddess Venus (Aphrodite) washed up to...
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national and foreign art indépendant was then preferably held in the Petit Palais and the Musée du Jeu de Paume. Although due to open in 1939, construction...
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Luxembourg Palace (redirect from Palais du Luxembourg)
The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [palɛ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France...
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du Petit Palais (Paris, France); Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Bussierre, Sophie de, eds. (1986). Rembrandt, eaux-fortes: Musée du Petit Palais, Collection...
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Universal Expositions, for example the Eiffel Tower, the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, and the Pont Alexandre III. The chief architectural legacy of...
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now in the Museum of the Petit Palais, Paris (1900) Image from the Bosnia Pavilion murals, now in the museum of the Petit Palais (1900) Menu designed by...
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Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The first Salon d'Automne was created in 1903...
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