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...
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statue was intended to be created out of bronze and placed in the Place de la Bastille, but only a plaster full-scale model was built. At 24 m (78 ft) in...
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by Uruguayan-Canadian architect Carlos Ott, it is situated facing Place de la Bastille. It may seat 2,723 people in total, with a main theatre, concert...
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The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents...
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The Gare de la Bastille was a railway station on the Place de la Bastille in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The station was opened in 1859 and...
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Revolution, 1,119 were executed on the Place de la Concorde, 73 on the Place de la Bastille and 1,306 on the Place de la Nation. Besides Louis XVI and Marie...
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Revolution) is a circle on the eastern side of Paris, between the Place de la Bastille and the Bois de Vincennes, on the border of the 11th and 12th arrondissements...
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anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a major event of the French Revolution, as well as the Fête de la Fédération that celebrated the...
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Bastille (French pronunciation: [bastij] ) is a station on Line 1, Line 5 and Line 8 of the Paris Métro. Located under the Place de la Bastille and near...
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The Place de la République (French pronunciation: [plas də la ʁepyblik]; English: Republic Square; known until 1879 as the Place du Château d'Eau, [plas...
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Quai de la Rapée. It ends at the Place de la Bastille, home of the Opéra Bastille. The boulevard was given its current name of Boulevard de la Bastille in...
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of Bastille Day, 14 July, each year in Paris since 1880, almost without exception. The parade passes down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées from Place Charles...
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large squares: the Place de la République to the northwest, the Place de la Bastille to the southwest, as well as the Place de la Nation to the southeast...
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[eɡliz sɛ̃t maʁi madlɛn]), or less formally, La Madeleine ([la madlɛn]), is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris...
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Paris Place de la Bastille, a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood Bastille (Grenoble), a fortress in Grenoble, France Bastille Peak,...
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first "Federation Day" celebration (fête de la Fédération), now known as Bastille Day, was held on the Champ de Mars, exactly one year after the storming...
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construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day military...
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Paris Commune (redirect from Commune de Paris)
its headquarters in a school on the rue Basfroi, between Place de la Bastille and Rue de la Roquette [fr]. The first vote of the new Central Committee...
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Paris Fashion Week (redirect from Semaine de la mode de Paris)
Paris Fashion Week (French: Semaine de la mode de Paris, commonly [la] Fashion Week) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris...
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July Column (redirect from Colonne de Juillet)
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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branch line to Place de la Bastille. But instead of that, Lyon Street (fr. Rue de Lyon) was laid out between the station and Place de la Bastille. The station...
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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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among the Parisian nobility. Along with the Place des Victoires, Place Dauphine, Place Vendôme and Place de la Concorde, it is one of the five royal squares...
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Joseph-Louis Duc, whose other famous Paris work is the July Column in the Place de la Bastille. It features marble classical columns, pediments and bas-reliefs;...
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script of the movie is based on the book La Place de la Bastille by Leon de Winter, alternatively known as De Burght. Director Rudolph van den Berg received...
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Montparnasse Cemetery (redirect from Cimetiere de Montparnasse)
the Hôtel-Dieu hospital and an estate of the Brothers of Charity (frères de la Charité). During this time monks built a windmill that later became a Guinguette...
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Adidas Arena (redirect from Porte de La Chapelle Arena)
marché global de performance | CCI Business Grand Paris". grandparis.ccibusiness.fr. "Le chantier de la future Arena 2 lancé Porte de la Chapelle". CNEWS...
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voyage pathologique ou de psychopathologie liée au voyage, plutôt que de syndrome du voyageur. Magherini, Graziella (1995). La sindrome di Stendhal (in...
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Trocadéro, Paris (redirect from Place du Trocadéro)
1937 to make way for the Palais de Chaillot. The hill of the Trocadéro is the hill of Chaillot, a former village. The place was named in honour of the Battle...
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