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    The Rue de Vaugirard (French pronunciation: [ʁy d(ə) voʒiʁaʁ]; English: Street of Vaugirard) is the longest street inside Paris's former city walls, at...
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    Vaugirard (French pronunciation: [voʒiʁaʁ]) is a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 15th arrondissement. It is named after the nearby rue de...
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    15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse...
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    named after the nearby rue des Volontaires. In 1822, locals transformed an existing dead end into an alley that led to rue de Vaugirard, hence, its initial...
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    given to the part comprising the Rue de Vaugirard and the Rue d'Assas, then in 1918, the name Rue Guynemer. The Rue Bonaparte itself contains some of...
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    of the President of the French Senate. It is located at 17–17 bis, Rue de Vaugirard, just west of the Luxembourg Palace, which serves as the seat of the...
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    historique des rues de Paris [Historical dictionary of Paris streets] (8th ed.). de Minuit. p. 543. ISBN 978-2-7073-1054-5. Media related to Rue Foyatier (Paris)...
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    Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes (Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes) is a Catholic church located at 70 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built as the...
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    Rive Gauche (category Île-de-France geography stubs)
    Boulevard Saint-Germain, Boulevard Saint-Michel, the Rue de Vaugirard, Rue Bonaparte and the Rue de Rennes. The Latin Quarter is situated on the Rive Gauche...
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    fighting duels. In 1360 it was cut in half by a canal, at about the current Rue Poulettiere, in order to bring it into the protection of the new wall around...
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    station at the Rue de Vaugirard, remaining elevated through four more stations on the Rive Gauche, crossing the Seine on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, then...
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    Cairo, Nest of Spies was filmed in its entrance hall. The campus on Rue de Vaugirard provides for first-year students. It is located in the chapel wing...
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    Notre-Dame de Paris (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to...
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    flagship of their educational enterprise, the Collège de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, located on Rue des Postes [fr], prepared its students for the entrance...
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    Pasteur, the rue de Vaugirard and the rue de Staël. Its nearest métro station is Pasteur. It is named for Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon. Jean-Claude...
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    The Hôtel de Condé comprised almost all the terrain in the 6th arrondissement of Paris that is now enclosed within rue de Condé, Vaugirard and Monsieur-Le-Prince...
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    The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (pronounced [ʁy dy fobuʁ sɛ̃tɔnɔʁe]) is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Relatively narrow...
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    Luxembourg (French pronunciation: [myze dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is a museum at 19 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially...
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    the Rue de Rivoli. The nearby Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville (BHV) is a department store named after the Hôtel de Ville. The closest church to the Hôtel de Ville...
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    and some other businesses largely occupy the location of the fort, and the Rue Saint-Antoine passes directly over it as it opens onto the roundabout of...
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    Achille Valois. It was originally located at the corner of the rue de Vaugirard and rue du Regard, hence the alternative name; however, in 1864, during...
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    Fontaine de Léda, (1807), a wall fountain built during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte at the corner of the Rue du Regard and Rue de Vaugirard, with a bas-relief...
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    Madame Campan, Lectrice de Mesdames et Première Femme de Chambre de la Reine, Baudouin Frères, Libraires, 36, rue de Vaugirard, tome premier, chapitre...
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    after one of his first names Rue de Tournon named after Cardinal François de Tournon (1489–1562) Rue de Vaugirard (partial) Rue Vavin named after the 19th-century...
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    and several restaurants, gardens, and monuments. The Élysée Palace on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré—official residence of the President of the French...
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    ground, filling the land between the present rue Saint-Denis, rue de la Ferronnerie, rue de la Lingerie and the rue Berger, had become the city's principal...
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    Minister of France. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne. The name Matignon is often used as a metonym for the governmental...
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    Vestibule of the Palais de Justice, Rue de Harlay Rue de Harlay runs across the island on the northwest side, separating the Palais de Justice from the Place...
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    Charles Lefebvre or Louis Duhayon, 1914 Art Deco reliefs of putti on Rue de Vaugirard no. 60, Paris, France, unknown architect, c.1930 Puer Mingens – Artistic...
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    Sellerie de Paris and Sellerie de la Grande Rue (13th century), Grand'rue de Paris, Grande rue, Rue des Saints Innocents, and Grande chaussée de Monsieur/Monseigneur...
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