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    (Pas-de-Calais) Hippodrome de la Thiérache, La Capelle Hippodrome du petit Saint-Jean, Amiens Hippodrome du Putois, Compiègne Hippodrome de la Côte de Beauté...
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    The Petit Palais (French: [pəti palɛ]; English: Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Exposition...
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    Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine...
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    Pitti Palace in her native Florence. She purchased the Hôtel du Luxembourg (today the Petit Luxembourg) and began construction of the new palace. She commissioned...
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    movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir). It is also home to the École des Beaux-Arts, Sciences Po, the Saints-Pères biomedical university...
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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    d'Amiens organizes the French FITA Archery Championships at the Hippodrome du petit Saint-Jean [fr]. Le Courrier picard [fr], the principal regional newspaper...
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    were Jean de Felin, Julien Ménart and Jean de Revier. It was built in 1509 to 1523, during the reign of King Francis I. With a dedication to Saint James...
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    apartments of the king (the appartement du roi and the petit appartement du roi) and those of the queen (the petit appartement de la reine) remained in the...
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    Adolphe (1885). Le Petit-Trianon: histoire et description. Versailles: L. Bernard, Libraire-Editeur. Félibien, André. Description sommaire du chasteau de Versailles...
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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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    building was founded in 1646 by parish priest Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657) who had established the Society of Saint-Sulpice, a clerical congregation, and a...
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    Cathédrales. Éditions Jean-Paul Gesserot. ISBN 978-2755807653. Plagnieux, Philippe (1998). La basilique cathédrale de Saint-Denis. Éditions du Patrimoine, Centre...
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    Assumption and All Saints. One exception was on the night of August 24, 1944 when La Nueve – 9th Company, Régiment de marche du Tchad of the French 2nd...
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    Louvre (redirect from Musee du Louvre)
    Musées du Louvre. Paris: Librairie du Petit Journal. Retrieved 14 June 2024. Geneviève Lacambre (2008). "Les collections chinoises et japonaises du musée...
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    Michelin, pp. 265-266. Album du Musée national du Moyen Age Thermes de Cluny, p. 5. "Les portes de Notre-Dame", Le Petit Journal, August 24, 1867 Base...
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    Rue de Vaugirard is the Petit Luxembourg, now the residence of the Senate President; and slightly further west, the Musée du Luxembourg, in the former...
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    The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d(ə) sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ]) is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, and Christian Lacroix. Paris Fashion Week, held in January and July in the Carrousel du Louvre...
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    designs used in the extension of the church of Saint-Maclou in Pontoise (begun in 1525) point to Jean Delamarre and/or Pierre Lemercier, who collaborated...
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    The entire site was formerly the garden of the old Palais du Trocadéro, laid out by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. Five avenues originate in the Trocadéro:...
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    canal was the setting in part for Jean Vigo's film L'Atalante in 1934. The canal is shown in the 1938 film Hôtel du Nord, directed by Marcel Carné. In...
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    Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery...
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    while the Petit Pont crossed the narrower channel to the Left Bank. The first stone bridge was built in 1378 at the site of the present Pont Saint-Michel;...
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    landscape garden with four lakes; a zoo; an arboretum; a botanical garden; a hippodrome or horse-racing track; a velodrome for bicycle races; and the campus of...
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    de Montmorency by Pierre Chambiges. The Petit Château was also built for him, around 1560, probably by Jean Bullant. In 1632, after the death of Henri...
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    by Carlo Marochetti (Eastern façade). Le passage du pont d'Arcole (The Battle of Arcole), by Jean-Jacques Feuchère (Northern façade, right). La prise...
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    The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés...
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    11 February 2024 during the LNB Élite basketball match between Paris and Saint-Quentin, won 87 to 65 by Paris. It was originally intended to host the wrestling...
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    the Petit Luxembourg to Cardinal de Richelieu, who occupied it while his own grand palace, the Palais-Cardinal, was constructed on the rue Saint-Honoré...
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    by Duke Jean de Berry decorated with sculptures and stained glass by André Beauneveu. Now destroyed. Riom: Founded 1382 by Jean de Berry Saint-Germer-de-Fly...
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