The Hôtel Matignon (French: Hôtel de Matignon, pronounced [otɛl də matiɲɔ̃]) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of France. It is located in...
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6th arrondissement of Paris (redirect from 6e arrondissement de Paris)
reference to the seat of the Senate and its garden, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It includes educational institutions such as the...
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Palais Bourbon (redirect from Palais de Bourbon)
on the Rive Gauche of the Seine across from the Place de la Concorde. The original palace was built beginning in 1722 for Louise Françoise de Bourbon...
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Les Invalides (redirect from Hôtel des Invalides)
The Hôtel des Invalides (English: "house of invalids"), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation: [lezɛ̃valid]), is a complex of buildings...
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built outstanding residences in the area, such as the Hôtel Matignon, the Hôtel de Salm, and the Hôtel Biron. After the Revolution many of these mansions...
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Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
Hôtel Matignon. Both houses of the French Parliament are located on the Rive Gauche. The upper house, the Senate, meets in the Palais du Luxembourg. The...
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Luxor Obelisks (redirect from Obélisque de Louxor)
obelisks to the Place de la Concorde. With the eventual end of the French Campaign in Egypt, these plans, however, were never realized. Under Napoleon's...
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (redirect from Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte)
row of rooms. Double-thick corps de logis had already been used in hôtels particuliers in Paris, including Le Vau's Hôtel Tambonneau, but Vaux was the first...
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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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Retrieved 5 October 2021. Hôtel des Invalides website Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. "History of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris". Places...
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September 1968). "Saint Laurent Has a New Name for Madison Avenue – Rive Gauche". The New York Times: 54. Retrieved 23 April 2023. ...[Yves Saint Laurent]...
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Gardens of Versailles (redirect from Grotte de Thétis)
the Rive droite train station in the city of Versailles, was filled in during the 18th century due to sanitary concerns. Water from the Machine de Marly...
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Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (redirect from Hôtel de la Salpêtrière)
Revolution, the Salpêtrière had no medical function: the sick were sent to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital. During the September massacres of 1792, the Salpêtrière was...
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1998. Later work by Youcef Mahmoudia, a physician with the hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, indicates that Paris syndrome is "psychopathology related to...
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February. Beginning in 1486, it was held in a portion of the gardens of the Hôtel de Navarre, close to the modern rue Mabillon. There were three hundred forty...
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Fight in Front of the City Hall on 28 July 1830 (redirect from Combat devant l'Hôtel de Ville le 28 juillet 1830)
The work was restored in 2015 through the sponsorship of the Carré Rive Gauche endowment fund. Few critics were kind in their judgements of the work...
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death of her husband, Henry II, Queen Catherine de' Medici decided to leave her residence of the Hôtel des Tournelles, at the eastern part of Paris, near...
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Montparnasse never regained its splendour. Wealthy socialites like Peggy Guggenheim, an art collector who married artist Max Ernst, lived in the Hôtel Lutetia...
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at the limits of Fleury-les-Aubrais. Conversely, the south (on the rive gauche) has a gentle depression to about 95 m (312 ft) above sea level (at Saint-Marceau)...
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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (category Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique)
Théâtre Rive Gauche in association with the producer and actor, Bruno Metzger. Following a period of renovation and refurbishment, the Théâtre Rive Gauche opened...
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Picpus Cemetery (redirect from Cimetière de Picpus)
Picpus Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Picpus, [pik.pys]) is the largest private cemetery in Paris, France, and is located in the 12th arrondissement. It...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (redirect from Basilique de Saint-Denis)
of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former medieval abbey...
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La Madeleine, Paris (redirect from Eglise de la Madeleine)
or less formally, La Madeleine, is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was planned by Louis XV...
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Universelle facilities on the Rive Gauche (Left Bank), and to create the Champ-de-Mars park. The square, then still called "Place du Roi de Rome", was linked to...
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deluxe hotels such as Hôtel Ritz, The Westin Paris – Vendôme, Hôtel de Toulouse (headquarters of Banque de France), Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, Hôtel Meurice...
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in Paris, France. It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225...
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Maxim's (redirect from Maxim's de Paris)
the restaurants in Brussels and Rio de Janeiro were scuttled over management issues, and the Palm Springs hotel, opened in February 1986, also encountered...
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Père Lachaise Cemetery (redirect from Cimetière de l'Est)
(French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise [simtjɛʁ dy pɛʁ laʃɛːz]; formerly cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at 44 hectares...
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Palais-Royal (redirect from Palais de l'Egalitè)
Columns of Buren at the Palais-Royal. History of parks and gardens of Paris Hôtel de Rambouillet Suzanne Lagier Louvre Palace Tuileries Palace Notes Horne,...
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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) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer...
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