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    has media related to Éléphant_de_la_Bastille. Cultural depictions of elephants Elephantine Colossus Lucy the Elephant Elephant and Castle Charles Ribart...
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    The Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the...
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    Republican movement. It was later demolished and replaced by the Place de la Bastille. The castle was built to defend the eastern approach to the city from...
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  • beaux-arts de Paris and died in Paris. 1822 : Bust of Jacques Ruisdaël, bought by the French state; Mathematics, bas-relief for the Éléphant de la Bastille fountain;...
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    Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates...
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    similar elephant-shaped buildings Elephant of the Bastille, a Napoleon-era proposal to build an elephant-shaped fountain in Place de la Bastille. v t e...
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    during the storming of the Bastille on 14 July. The blue and red cockade was presented to King Louis XVI at the Hôtel de Ville on 17 July. Lafayette...
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    de l'Éléphant de la Bastille (1809–1810), Watercolor by Jean-Antoine Alavoine 1354 illustration depicting Panchatantra fable: Rabbit fools Elephant by...
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    Canal Saint-Martin (category Place de la Bastille)
    de l'Ourcq to the river Seine. Nearly half its length (2,069 metres (2,263 yd)), between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille,...
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    a religious college (French: Collège de Cluny, no longer extant) on the location of the present-day place de la Sorbonne. The Cluny mansion was rebuilt...
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    Discover France. Accessed 20 August 2011. Lost Paris: The Elephant on the Place de la Bastille Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine. 24 May 2011....
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    two new Paris monuments, the Arc de Triumph on the Etoile and the July Column in the center of the Place de la Bastille. In 1834, Louis Philippe also had...
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    The art galleries are plentiful and excellent. Franschhoek's weekend Bastille Festival has been celebrated every July since 1994, the year of the first...
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    she regularly helps him. The Elephant of the Bastille is no imaginary construction; located at the Place de la Bastille, it had been designed by Jean-Antoine...
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    de l'Ordre de la Libération (in French). Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 29 September 2020. Cordier, Daniel. Jean Moulin; la République...
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    examples exist, such as the planned but never completed Parisian Elephant of the Bastille, the style generally became popular in the United States, and later...
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    Place de la Bastille Square des Batignolles Place Beauvau Place Blanche Place Cambronne Place du Carrousel Place Charles Michels Place Charles de Gaulle...
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    Saint Louis. The new chapel was called La-Sainte Chapelle, modeled after the Saint-Chapelle in the Palais de la Cité in Paris. It was not finished until...
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    for the center of the Place de la Bastille, but he did not have time to finish it. An enormous plaster mockup of the elephant stood in the square for many...
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    incest with his daughter, resulted in an eleven-month imprisonment in the Bastille. The Comédie-Française had agreed in January 1717 to stage his debut play...
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    and John Hurt. In 2006, Watling starred in the Paris, Je T'aime segment "Bastille" as Marie Christine. The anthology film was directed by many famous directors...
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    Calvin Harris Sunday: Quique Meira, Fitz and the Tantrums, Pedro Aznar, Bastille, The Smashing Pumpkins, Skrillex Alternative Saturday: Despertar Antoles...
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    museums: the Musée national de la Marine (naval museum) and the Musée de l'Homme (ethnology) in the southern (Passy) wing. the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine...
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    Garbage · Lori Meyers · The Prodigy · Die Antwoord · Jane's Addiction · Bastille · Band of Horses · Neil Young · Two Door Cinema Club · Biffy Clyro · Capital...
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    The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...
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    Louvre (category Institut de France)
    June 2014). "La réouverture des salles d'objets d'art du Louvre, de Louis XIV à Louis XVI". La Tribune de l'Art. "Elias Crespin, l'art de la ligne au Louvre"...
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    the age of seventy-eight cut short his plans. Prise de la Bastille (1789) View of the Château de Chanteloup from the south Conisbee 1996. Conisbee, Philip...
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    "Histoire de la salle de jeu de paume de Fontainebleau". Archived from the original on June 25, 2008. Retrieved March 19, 2007. "Cercle du jeu de paume de Fontainebleau"...
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    Charles-Eugène de Lorraine, Prince de Lambesc, against a crowd gathered at the Tuileries gardens, sparked the Storming of the Bastille two days later...
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    the identity of an anonymous masked prisoner who spent decades in the Bastille and other French prisons, and his true identity remains somewhat a mystery...
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