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    The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon, is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. It handles about 148.1 million passengers...
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    The Champ de Mars (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ də mars]; lit. 'Field of Mars') is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh arrondissement...
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    houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). The Petit Palais is located across from the Grand Palais on...
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    The Chemins de fer de l'État ("State Railways"), often referred to in France as the Réseau de l'État ("State Network"), was an early state-owned French...
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    2°25′58.50″E / 48.8280694°N 2.4329167°E / 48.8280694; 2.4329167 The Bois de Vincennes (French pronunciation: [bwɑ d(ə) vɛ̃sɛn]), located on the eastern...
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    train stations, the Gare d'Orsay and the Gare des Invalides, and the new facade and enlargement and redecoration of the Gare de Lyon and other stations...
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    Eiffel Tower (redirect from La dame de fer)
    closer to the river Seine, were more complicated: each slab needed two piles installed by using compressed-air caissons 15 m (49 ft) long and 6 m (20 ft)...
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    The rue de l'Avenir (lit. Street of the future) was an electric moving walkway installed at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. It ran along the...
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    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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    The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ palɛ de ʃɑ̃z‿elize]; English: Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as the...
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    Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris...
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    The Grande Roue de Paris was a 96-metre (315 ft) tall Ferris wheel built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris. Financing the...
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    north side, where nothing had been built, but on the south, where the four piles and the abutment on the Left Bank were already laid, the addition of the...
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    Pierre Granet [fr] and Renommée de l'Industrie ("Fame of Industry") by Clément Steiner [fr]. At their bases, France de la Renaissance ("France of the Renaissance")...
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    Argenton-sur-Creuse station (category TER Centre-Val de Loire)
    railway towards La Châtre and the terminus of the partially abandoned Port-de-Piles - Argenton-sur-Creuse line. Until 1938, it was also the terminus of...
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    gesticulate. The more numerous workers below are trying to kill time. Sitting on piles of materials, most converse animatedly. Others are dozing under the trees...
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    Notre-Dame de Paris (French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral...
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    arrondissement. It links rue de la Convention and place Mirabeau, on the left bank, to rue de Rémusat. On the left side, upstream, is the gare de Javel of the RER...
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    view along the Champ de Mars. The Galerie des machines was built for the Universal Exposition of 1889 at the foot of the Champ de Mars in front of the...
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    Debilly Passerelle Debilly at night Debilly Footbridge from Eiffel Tower From Port Debilly. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Passerelle Debilly. Bridge...
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    voids to dissipate the wave energy. Rubble mound breakwaters consist of piles of stones more or less sorted according to their unit weight: smaller stones...
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    édifiés le long de la ligne impériale (La Compagnie du PLM : les gares de l'architecte Jules Bouchot)". Revue d'histoire des chemins de fer (38): 59–71...
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    1999, p. 41. "Berges de l'Hérault". port-capdagde.com (in French). Archives Municipales d'Agde (2016). 2200-La gare d'eau (document). Camps 1999, p. 27-28...
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    history within the Jewish community in Montreal. A study done by the Université de Montréal explains that the large influence of Jewish food in Montreal culinary...
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    solar system were rolled past." The attraction had been designed by Napoleon de Tédesco [fr] and built according to the Matrai system. On April 29, 1900,...
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    III Rue de l'Avenir Urban development Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture Gare de Lyon Le Train Bleu Gare d'Orsay Gare du Champ de Mars Gare de Javel Hôtel...
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    one-in-three regional TER trains and one-in-two TGV or Ouigo services running. At Gare de Lyon train station, several hundred unionists and strikers demonstrated...
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    Cergy-le-Haut-and line B south of Gare du Nord; certain lines with passenger services still operated by local railroads: Chemins de fer de la Corse, the line from...
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    served a purpose. Paul Gautier, “Note sur le sidérostat à lunette de 60 m de foyer et de 1,25 m d’ouverture,” in Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes pour 1899...
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    Albert Caquot (category Électricité de France people)
    over the River Loire, the Lafayette Bridge crossing the tracks of the Gare de l’Est in Paris (1928). This is a truss bridge in reinforced concrete, where...
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