The Lion of Belfort, in Belfort, France, is an 1880 monumental sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty...
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Swiss border. It is the prefecture of the Territoire de Belfort. Belfort is 400 km (250 mi) from Paris and 55 km (34 mi) from Basel. The residents of the...
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The Territoire de Belfort (French pronunciation: [tɛʁitwaʁ də bɛlfɔʁ] ; lit. "Territory of Belfort") is a department in the northeastern French region...
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Place Denfert-Rochereau (redirect from Place Denfert-Rochereau, Paris)
organized the defense at the siege of Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). It is dominated by the Lion of Belfort statue (a smaller version of the...
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Marquis de Lafayette, statue of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in Union Square, Manhattan, New York City Bartholdi's Lion of Belfort Vercingetorix...
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Notre-Dame de Paris (French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral...
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defending besieged Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War: this earned him the soubriquet The Lion of Belfort (French: le lion de Belfort). Born in an upper-class...
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Ernst's example for this element is the Lion of Belfort; consequently, this section features numerous characters with lion heads. The element of the next section...
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region of Belfort (place fortifiée de Belfort) formed the first line of defense in the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in the Belfort Gap. Located...
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po]) or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: Institut d'études politiques de Paris), is a private and public...
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uprising from a bunker twenty-six meters beneath the statue of the Lion de Belfort, Place Denfert-Rochereau, which communicated with the catacombs. Parisians...
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including Paris and all 123 communes in the surrounding inner-suburban departments of the Petite Couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne)...
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Paris Dauphine University - PSL (French: Université Paris Dauphine - PSL) is a Grande École and public institution of higher education and research based...
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French heraldry (section Paris)
Juliet (2002). L'arsenal de Paris: histoire et chroniques (in French). L'Harmattan. p. 35. Ralph Schor, Histoire du Comté de Nice en 100 dates, Alandis...
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Thierry Burkhard (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures)
Foreign Legion (13e DBLE) in Djibouti. A native of Delle, Territoire de Belfort, Burkhard enrolled at Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1985. After a year...
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James, G. P. R. (1842). A history of the life of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England. Paris. Lane-Poole, S. (1898). Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom...
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ENS, Normale sup', Ulm or ENS Paris) is a grande école in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University...
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The Spasm Band (section Leggo de Lion)
Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Les Eurockeennes, Belfort, Roskilde, Denmark and the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Paris. They also performed at the Jazz au Chellah...
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Bastille Day (redirect from Fete nationale de la France)
military parades are held in French garrison towns, including Toulon and Belfort, with local troops. Allied forces participate in the military parade Horseman...
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Winged Victory of Samothrace (redirect from Victoire de Samothrace)
Toulon at the end of August and in Paris on May 11, 1864. A first restoration was undertaken by Adrien Prévost de Longpérier, then curator of Antiquities...
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Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed, 434 classés and 1,382 inscrits, in Paris. Abbreviations:...
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ultimately managed to get it postponed until April 1945. De Lattre's attack went ahead on 14 November. Belfort was taken on 25 November, but his attempt at encircling...
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Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The Lion of Belfort Marie Bashkirtseff – Self-portrait Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead...
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The Gates of Hell (redirect from La Porte De L'enfer)
"LA PORTE DE L'ENFER". Le Matin. Paris. Retrieved 25 October 2018. Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette (1999). Rodin:The Gates of Hell. Paris: Musée Rodin...
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Vénus de Milo. Paris: Louvre éditions. ISBN 9-788412-154832. Pasquier, Alain (1985). La Vénus de Milo: Les Aphrodites du Louvre. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion...
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Strasbourg Cathedral (redirect from Notre Dame de Strasbourg)
Notre Dame de Paris, and were made to accompany a painting there, "The Vow of Louis XIII". They were manufactured between 1638 and 1657 in Paris by Pierre...
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
France, Kléber received the appointment of inspector of public buildings at Belfort. Between 1784 and 1792, he designed a number of buildings both on public...
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Louvre Palace (redirect from Porte des Lions)
amoureux du Louvre. Paris: Plon. "L'ancienne rue de Beauvais (1er arrondissement)". Les Rues de Paris. "Le Louvre – La porte des lions" (in French). Paristoric...
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Philippe Pétain (redirect from Lion of verdun)
nine-month-long Battle of Verdun, for which he was called "the Lion of Verdun" (French: le lion de Verdun). After the failed Nivelle Offensive and subsequent...
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century artist for having created Liberty Enlightening the World and the Lion of Belfort. Among many other, works by Bartholdi that can be seen in the museum...
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