(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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Palace of Versailles (redirect from Musée du château de Versailles et du Trianon)
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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Gardens of Versailles (redirect from Jardins du château de Versailles)
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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Sacré-Cœur, Paris (redirect from Basilique du Sacré-Coeur)
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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Musée de Cluny (redirect from Musée National du Moyen Age)
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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Luxembourg Palace (redirect from Palais du Luxembourg)
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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Paris (section Métropole du Grand Paris)
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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Trocadéro, Paris (redirect from Place du Trocadéro)
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 (redirect from Cimetiere du Montparnasse)
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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Île de la Cité (redirect from Île du Palais)
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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Arc de Triomphe (redirect from Arc du Triomphe)
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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Sainte-Chapelle (redirect from Saint Chapelle)
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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