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    The Bassin de la Villette (La Villette Basin) is the largest artificial lake in Paris. It was filled with water on 2 December 1808. Located in the 19th...
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    Gramont who left his name to the hôtel particulier Hôtel de Gramont which was built on the site. In 1721, the Duchesse de Gramont, who had become a widow...
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    The Château de Villette is a château (a French manor house) located in Condécourt, France, 40 km (24.8 mi) northwest of Paris. There are numerous outbuildings...
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    The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann,...
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    Villette is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux...
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    help of her husband and de Villette, concocted a plan to use this situation to their financial advantage. Rétaux de Villette was a master forger and wrote...
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    Lyon tramway (redirect from Tramway de Lyon)
    de Vigny Saint-Priest–Hôtel de Ville Esplanade des Arts Jules Ferry Cordière Saint-Priest–Bel Air Line T2 has been extended from Perrache to Hôtel de...
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    Girard and built on the site in 1811. Émile de La Bédollière wrote that the water came from la Villette and that the fountain was "superb" in character...
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    CSI is the biggest science museum in Europe. Located in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is one of the three dozen French Cultural Centers...
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    2007, he moved his family into the Hôtel de Bouillon. no. 3 and no. 5: Hôtel Le Barbier, Hôtel Perrault, and Hôtel de La Briffe were all one unit until...
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    Théâtre de Besançon, 1778–1784 Hôtel Thellusson, rue de Provence, Paris, 1778 (destroyed in 1826 at the time the prolongation of rue Laffitte) Hôtel de Mme...
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    Canal Saint-Martin (category Place de la Bastille)
    from the vast terminal basin (Bassin de la Villette) of the Canal de l'Ourcq is at a double lock near the Place de Stalingrad. Continuing towards the river...
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    the children went to the care of their paternal aunt, Madame de Villette. The Villettes' home, Mursay, became a happy memory for Françoise, who had been...
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    where it splits from the channeled river Ourcq, and flows to the Bassin de la Villette, where it joins the Canal Saint-Martin. Paris requires 380,000 cubic...
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    Brussels as the inspiration for some of the events in The Professor and Villette. After returning to Haworth, Charlotte and her sisters made headway with...
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  • mansion at No. 20 avenue Montaigne in Paris, as well as the Château de Villette in Pont-Sainte-Maxence and collected art. Stern was a Knight of the Legion...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    created 166 new parks, most notably the Parc de la Villette (1987), Parc André Citroën (1992), Parc de Bercy (1997) and Parc Clichy-Batignolles (2007)...
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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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    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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  • channels, she joins forces with the arrogant, well-connected gigolo Rétaux de Villette and her own wayward, womanizing husband Nicholas. They concoct a plan...
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    It was until 3 June 1930, the southern terminus of line 7 from Porte de la Villette and Pré-Saint-Gervais, replacing the previous terminus at Palais Royal...
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    facilities in the Parc de la Villette were initiated under Bleuse and completed under Louvier. It opened as part of the Cité de la Musique in September...
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    is indicated by one of the Sculptures Bachelard set in Paris, Parc de la Villette. In this work, the anamorphosis appears as a reflection of a bronze...
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    the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden. Opened in 1867, late in the...
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    2013, 224 p. The Hôtel de Vins bore its name from his former owner, the Marquis de Vins d'Agoult de Montauban. Now called the Hôtel Dupin, was located...
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    extended from Croix-Paquet to Hôtel de Ville; in 1984 the line reached its current northern terminus at Cuire. Hôtel de Ville–Louis Pradel Croix-Paquet...
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  • Austria) Château de Maisons (1642–1646) Hôtel de Guénégaud (1648–1651) Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) – remodel Hôtel d'Aumont – remodel after Louis Le Vau Louis...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
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  • Louis-Pierre Marquet, 204 rue de Grenelle, 7th Henri Bunel and Fernand Dupuis, 39 rue d'Antin, 2nd Michel Rabier, 87 boulevard de la Villette, 10th 1899: Richard...
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    Hôtel de Ville ended, while that of the Greniers d'abondance, a food depot on Boulevard Bourdon, began. On Friday, May 26, the docks at La Villette -...
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