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    La Grande Arche de la Défense (French: [la ɡʁɑ̃d aʁʃ də la defɑ̃s]; "The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité...
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    Jérôme (2017), Lee, Ji-Hyun (ed.), "From Open Plan to Public Space: 'Seine-Arche' Project and Urban Morphological Evolution in France 1960–2020", Morphological...
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    Puteaux (redirect from Puteaux-sur-Seine)
    Arche and Tour Sequoia, both in La Défense and in Puteaux, have the administrative offices of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. The Grande Arche...
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    (1985–1989), the new site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1996), the Arche de la Défense (1985–1989) in La Défense, as well as the Louvre Pyramid with...
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  • d'Orsay, Parc de la Villette, Arab World Institute, Opéra Bastille, Grande Arche de La Défense, Ministry of the Economy and Finance, as well as a new campus...
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    roof of the Grande Arche, a second axis can be seen: the Tour Montparnasse stands exactly behind the Eiffel Tower. The Seine-Arche project is extending...
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    La Défense (category Tourist attractions in Hauts-de-Seine)
    000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban...
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    through here, making it a huge railway hub. It is underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station...
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    thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806;...
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  • fitness, shops and restaurants". The tower will be located west of the Grande Arche, in the immediate vicinity of the Paris La Défense Arena, the Racing 92...
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    raid along the river Seine during the middle of the 9th century. As early as 841, a Viking fleet appeared at the mouth of the Seine, the principal route...
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    head office is in the Grande Arche Sud (South) in the La Défense business district and the commune of Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan...
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    Château de Malmaison (category Châteaux in Hauts-de-Seine)
    on RN 13 (route nationale 13) from Paris and bus 258 from RER A "Grande Arche" station. View of the southwest facade of the Manor House Main entrance...
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    "being". Heraclitus believed fire was the arche, the fundamental stuff of the world. In choosing an arche Heraclitus followed the Milesians before him...
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    1st arrondissement of Paris La Défense, Paris business district, Grande Arche, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen and Erik Reitzel (1989) Parc André-Citroën,...
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    Pont de Neuilly station (category Paris Métro stations in Neuilly-sur-Seine)
    Métro Line 1, situated in the prosperous suburban commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Between 1940 and 1950 it was known as Pont de Neuilly, Avenue de Madrid...
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    moved several times before it was placed at its current location near the Arche de la Défense in 2017. The Republican government that came to power in France...
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    Pont Alexandre III (category Bridges over the River Seine in Paris)
    The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel...
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    Les Sablons station (category Paris Métro stations in Neuilly-sur-Seine)
    is a station on Line 1 of the Paris Métro in the commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine west of the city. In 2019 Les Sablons ranked 53rd in passenger volume among...
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  • needed] Today there are three islands near the center of Paris, all in the Seine river: the Île de la Cité, the Île Saint-Louis, and the artificial Île aux...
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    located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France. Construction of the Grand Palais began in 1897 following the demolition...
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  • Lycée Jean Moulin is a senior high school in Torcy, Seine-et-Marne, in the Paris metropolitan area. It first opened in 1985. As of 2011[update], the school...
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    La Défense-Grande-Arche of the northern section. Early 2030: Segment from Nanterre to Saint-Denis–Pleyel via La Défense-Grande-Arche of the northern section...
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    Rive Gauche (category River Seine)
    pronunciation: [ʁiv ɡoʃ]; Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two...
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    Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between the rue de Seine and rue Mazarine on the east, and...
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    Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, settled on the banks of the Seine, built bridges and a fort, minted coins, and began to trade with other river...
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    Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. It is also the name of the 1878 Trocadéro Palace...
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  • located just west of the City of Paris in the département of the Hauts-de-Seine. Eight of the ten tallest buildings and structures in the region are located...
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    Arche Tour Granite Tour Initiale Tour Les Poissons Tour Majunga Tour Manhattan Tour Neptune Opus 12 Tower Tour Pascal Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine Tour...
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    today Avenue Winston-Churchill. The other façades of the building face the Seine and Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The Petit Palais is one of fourteen museums...
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