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    The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu...
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    Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime. Berg Publishers. ISBN 9781847884633. Berger, Robert W. (1985). Versailles:...
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    Album du Musée national du Moyen Age Thermes de Cluny, p. 5. "Les portes de Notre-Dame", Le Petit Journal, August 24, 1867 Base Mérimée: Ancien hôtel...
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    still using much of the same network of hydraulics as was used during the Ancien Régime, the fountains contribute to making the gardens of Versailles unique...
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    the Senate, meets in the Palais du Luxembourg. The more important lower house, the National Assembly, meets in the Palais Bourbon. The President of the...
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    Les Invalides (redirect from Eglise du Dome)
    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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    Époque was the Jardins du Trocadéro, the site of the Universal Exposition of 1878 that surrounded the enormous Palais de Trocadéro, which served as the...
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    which was formerly used as a prison where some prominent members of the ancien régime stayed before their death during the French Revolution The Eiffel...
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    Greek manuscripts, which are divided into three fonds: Ancien fonds grec, fonds Coislin, and Fonds du Supplément grec. according to content: learned and bibliophilic...
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    interested in acoustics: his improvements to the acoustics of the Palais du Trocadéro (1903–1911) established his reputation in the field after the war...
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    refurnished the Hôtel, which once again became a festive gathering place for the Ancien Régime society and a hotbed of opposition. Close friends of Joséphine de...
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    of autocratic cruelty. The confrontation between the commoners and the Ancien Régime ultimately led to the people of Paris storming the Bastille on 14...
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    Henry IV to Louis XVI, on the place where the royal bed had been. Under the Ancien régime, the King's bed was a symbol of royal authority in France and was...
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  • sculptures, Expo 2010 à Shanghai (Chine). 2011 : 1000 Tortues-Casques, Parvis du Trocadéro, Paris (France). 2011 : 1000 Tortues-Casques, Normandy’s Omaha Beach...
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    the Seine, in the Champ de Mars and the heights of Trocadéro, where the first Palais de Trocadéro was built. Alexander Graham Bell displayed his new telephone...
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    Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (category Ancien Régime French architecture)
    prefigure the major Sainte-Chapelle which Saint Louis built within the Palais de la Cité at Paris between 1240 and 1248. Both buildings were built by...
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    d'Arc relevant l'épée de la France". Retrieved 22 January 2014. "Palais du Trocadéro". Retrieved 22 January 2014. "William II of the Netherlands". Retrieved...
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    Picpus Cemetery (category Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    metropolism.com. "Picpus – News". Paris Cemeteries. "Cimetière de Picpus et ancien couvent des chanoinesses de Picpus". www.pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved...
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    Pinoteau. 1. [Nachdr. d. Ausg. Paris, 1706]. – 1973. – 524 S. Paris: Éd. du Palais Royal. O'Hanlon, John (1873), Lives of the Irish saints, retrieved 2 August...
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    France in the ranking of the newspaper Le Figaro. The “Petit Externat du Trocadéro” was inaugurated on September 28, 1894. The last Jesuit school established...
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  • prominent Ancien Régime members before their deaths during the French Revolution. Also of note in the 1st arrondissement are the theatres Théâtre du Châtelet...
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    needed] The church has been the "artists' parish" since the end of the Ancien Régime, when artists were housed in the Louvre. It was here that Jean-Philippe...
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    known Parisian structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the Palais Garnier opera house, plus abbeys, churches such as Saint-Germain-des-Prés...
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    collection of Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia Vue de paris de hauteurs du Trocadéro, 1871, oil on canvas, 46.1 × 81.5 cm, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California...
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    Jacques Offenbach at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. 4 November – Inauguration of place du Roi de Rome (now place du Trocadéro). 1867 15 March – First elevator...
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    Paris under the direction of Paul Rivet at the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro. In 1933, fascinated by the objects created by the Rapa Nui people, Lavachery...
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    Base Mérimée: PA00086157, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Ancien hôtel Aubert de Fontenay ou Salé, actuellement musée national Picasso Gareth...
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    opened fire on the western neighbourhoods of the city—Auteuil, Passy, and Trocadéro—with shells falling close to l'Étoile. Dombrowski reported that the soldiers...
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  • Exposition Internationale of 1937, the old Palais du Trocadéro was demolished and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot, designed by architects Louis-Hippolyte...
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    rehearsal of Esclarmonde by the Opéra-Comique company (at the Salle du Châtelet, Ancien Théâtre-Lyrique des Nations de la Comédie-Italienne) in Paris. 13...
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