The Pont des Arts (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ dez‿aʁ]) or Passerelle des Arts ([pasʁɛl -]) is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine...
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Le Pont des Arts is a 2004 French drama film directed by Eugène Green, starring Natacha Régnier. The story is of a young man who falls in love with and...
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The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nœf], "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western...
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The Pont des Arts, Paris is an 1826 cityscape painting by the British artist Richard Parkes Bonington. It depicts a scene in Paris during the Restoration...
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as an example of an overloaded bridge, a probable reference to the Pont des Arts. On 20 May 2015, council authorities in Melbourne, Australia, began...
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The Pont de l'Alma (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ də lalma], English: Alma Bridge) is a road bridge in Paris, France, across the Seine. It was named to commemorate...
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The Pont Alexandre III (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ alɛksɑ̃dʁ tʁwa]) is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées...
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well as Parisian monuments such as the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, the Pont des Arts, which links the 1st and 6th arrondissements over the Seine, Saint-Germain...
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Guimet Museum (redirect from Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet)
The Guimet Museum (full name in French: Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; abbr. Musée Guimet) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna...
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The Musée des Arts et Métiers (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ e metje]; English: Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris...
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Champs-Élysées (redirect from Avenue des Champs-Élysées)
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées (UK: /ˌʃɒ̃z eɪˈliːzeɪ, ɛ-/, US: /ʃɒ̃z ˌeɪliˈzeɪ/; French: [av(ə)ny de ʃɑ̃z‿elize] ) is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement...
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The Pont de Bir-Hakeim (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ d(ə) biʁakɛm]; English: Bridge of Bir-Hakeim), formerly the Pont de Passy ([pɔ̃ d(ə) pasi]; Bridge...
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evening after a particularly pleasing day of work. He pauses on the empty Pont des Arts and reflects: I was happy. The day had been good: a blind man, the reduced...
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Bertrand Duchaufour (section Pont des Arts)
including Penhaligon's and Acqua di Parma, as well as fashion houses Comme des Garcons, Givenchy and Dior. Many of his fragrances have received substantial...
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des Capucines from the elevated second story of Nadar’s studio. Monet’s blurred pedestrians walking on the boulevard evoke the people crossing Pont des...
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Institut de France (redirect from L'Institut National des Sciences et des Arts)
sciences (Academy of Sciences) – initiated 1666. Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) – created 1816 as the merger of: The Académie de peinture...
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Paris under Napoleon (section The arts)
Place du Châtelet; and three new bridges; the Pont d'Iéna, Pont d'Austerlitz, including the Pont des Arts (1804), the first iron bridge in Paris. The Louvre...
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The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ dekɔʁatif], English: Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum in Paris, France, dedicated...
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Les Invalides (redirect from Hôtel des Invalides)
At its far end, the Pont Alexandre III links this grand urbanistic axis with the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais. The Pont des Invalides is next, downstream...
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École nationale des ponts et chaussées (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nasjɔnal de pɔ̃ e ʃose], lit. 'National School of Bridges and Roads'; abbr. ENPC)...
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the final scene in the film is of the reunited lovers on the iconic Pont des Arts. Likewise, the earlier movie used a Beverly Hills mansion to substitute...
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l'Ourcq, Père Lachaise Cemetery and the city's first metal bridge, the Pont des Arts. During the Restoration, the bridges and squares of Paris were returned...
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Place de la Concorde (redirect from La Fontaine des Mers)
a student of the Neoclassical designer Charles Percier at the École des Beaux-Arts. He had spent two years studying the architecture and fountains of Rome...
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Pont d'Iéna (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ djena], "Jena Bridge") is a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris. It links the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank...
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scheme for the ravaged medieval city: additions to the Louvre Palace, the Pont Neuf, and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares. Cardinal...
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Tuileries Garden (redirect from Jardins des Tuileries)
the new pump called La Samaritaine, which had been built in 1608 on the Pont Neuf. The area between the palace and the former moat of Charles V was turned...
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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir). It is also home to the École des Beaux-Arts, Sciences Po, the Saints-Pères biomedical university center of the University...
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The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (French pronunciation: [paʁk de byt ʃomɔ̃]; English: Park of the Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern...
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Grand Palais (redirect from Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts)
Exposition of 1900. That exposition also produced the adjacent Petit Palais and Pont Alexandre III. The building was designed to be a large-scale venue for official...
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The Pont des Invalides (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ dez‿ɛ̃valid]) is the lowest bridge traversing the Seine in Paris. The story of this bridge started in...
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