The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto də sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ]) is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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contribute strongly to the current growth of the agglomeration. The Gare de Saint-Lô is served by TER trains on the Caen – Rennes railway line [fr]. It...
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Centre-Chapelle des Buis (section La Gare-d'Eau)
and Saint-Jean), then secondary extensions (Chamars, la Gare-d'Eau, Rivotte, Tarragnoz) and finally tertiary extensions (la Chapelle-des-Buis). Saint-Jean...
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Stade Roland Garros (redirect from Court Philippe Chatrier)
5-hectare (34-acre) complex contains twenty courts, including three large-capacity stadiums; Les Jardins de Roland Garros, a large restaurant and bar complex;...
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cathedral of Paris, that of Saint Etienne, was constructed in 540–545, close to the west front of the present Notre Dame de Paris and just a few hundred...
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of Maurice Quentin de La Tour's pastels Academic Society, archaeologic museum Société Académique de Saint-Quentin The Gare de Saint-Quentin is the railway...
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Élysée Palace (redirect from Palais de l'Élysée)
collection of great masters paintings. To this end, he hired the architect Étienne-Louis Boullée to make substantial alterations to the buildings (as well...
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Hôtel Matignon (redirect from Hôtel de Matignon)
decided to restore the old "Chemin du Bois de la Garenne," which had become the "Rue de Varenne," that linked Saint-Germain-des-Prés, at the western end of...
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it has been the seat of the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, the Court of Appeal of Paris, and the Court of Cassation. The first of these moved...
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ancient Gaul. [citation needed] The Gothic Limoges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Limoges), begun in 1273 and only finished in 1888. It is noted for...
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Association. Under King Robert II of France the Palais de la Cité began to serve as the home of a high court or council for the King. He constructed the Hall...
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France...
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Musée départemental de l'Oise, was built in the 16th century, partly upon the Gallo-Roman fortifications. The church of Saint-Étienne is a Romanesque-Gothic...
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of Lyon established. 1876 - Gare de Lyon-Saint-Paul opens. 1877 - Théâtre des Célestins opens. 1879 - Le Nouvelliste de Lyon [fr] newspaper begins publication...
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Palais Bourbon (redirect from Palais de Bourbon)
the Court in Versailles, but by the 1720s, she had had seven children and was widowed. The reputed lover of the Duchess, Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre...
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assassin, later revealed to be May Day (Grace Jones). Champ de Mars contains both a basketball court and a football field, and it will be the site of beach...
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Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
No. 328, postmarked in 1909) Inside Saint-Roch railway station (postcard postmarked in 1905) Gare Saint-Roch Gare de Longueau In addition to Amiens – Glisy...
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Fighting the Minotaur) by Étienne-Jules Ramey (1821) Cassandre se met sous la protection de Pallas by Aimé Miller (1877) Caïn venant de tuer son frère Abel...
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France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located). Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest of Paris by four...
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Sainte-Chapelle (redirect from Saint Chapelle)
relics were housed at chapels at the Château de Vincennes and a specially built chapel at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1246, fragments of the...
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Retrieved 12 February 2017. "Saint-Denis Pleyel". Société du Grand Paris (in French). 3 May 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2021. "GARE SAINT-DENIS PLEYEL - LE CŒUR...
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Palace of Versailles (redirect from Court of Versailles)
residence, the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The site, near a village named Versailles, was a wooded wetland that Louis XIII's court scorned as being generally...
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Gardens of Versailles (redirect from Grotte de Thétis)
1713 "Bosquet de l'Île Royale et le Bassin du Miroir" by Étienne Allegrain, ca. 1693 "Salle des Festins ou Salle du Conseil" by Étienne Allegrain, ca...
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Architecture of Paris (section The Palais de la Cité)
replaced by a larger building on rue de Stockholm, and then an even larger structure, the beginning of the Gare Saint-Lazare, built between 1841 and 1843...
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Duchess of Normandy, Saint Bathild, Saint Clotilde, Saint Genevieve, and Valentina Visconti. Location of the series Reines de France et Femmes illustres...
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Island of Montreal (redirect from Île de Montréal)
confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers. The first French name for the island was l'ille de Vilmenon, noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616...
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Opéra Bastille (redirect from Opéra de la Bastille)
architect Richard Meier. Construction began in 1984 with the demolition of the gare de la Bastille train station, which had opened in 1859 and closed in 1969...
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hours to get to Charles de Gaulle Airport. Tours has two main stations: Gare de Tours, the central station, and Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, used by...
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Troyes (redirect from Saint Aventinus)
business school Groupe École supérieure de commerce de Troyes are located in Troyes. The train station Gare de Troyes offers connections to Paris, Dijon...
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near the current n°7 rue de Sévigné. In 1361, King Charles V built a mansion known as the Hôtel Saint-Pol, in which the Royal Court settled during his reign...
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