The tour du coin (or tour de la conférence) was one of the corner towers of the ancient wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris, built between 1190 and 1209...
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The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank...
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the Wall of Philip II Augustus (Tour du coin (Louvre), Tour de Nesle, Tour Barbeau), on the Wall of Charles V (Tour du bois), in the city of Carcassonne...
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On the right bank of the Seine river was a similar tall tower: the Tour du Coin (corner tower). The towers protected the upstream approach to the Île...
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Fort de Saint-Cyr Fort de Sucy Thiers wall Tour de Nesle Tour du coin (Louvre) Tour Jean-sans-Peur Fort du Trou-d'Enfer Fort de Vaujours Fort Neuf de...
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The Tour du coin, Right Bank, near the Louvre (Quai François Mitterrand) The Tour de Nesle, Left Bank (Quai de Conti) On the east side: The Tour Barbeau...
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Tuileries Garden (redirect from Jardins du Carrousel)
palace and gardens by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, 1576–1579 Plan of the Tuileries garden in about 1589. The Louvre is to the right In July 1559, after the...
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Paris (section Métropole du Grand Paris)
La Défense, as well as the Louvre Pyramid with its underground courtyard (1983–1989); Jacques Chirac (2006), the Musée du quai Branly. In the early 21st...
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Boscoreale Treasure (category Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre)
hundred pieces of silverware, as well as gold coins and jewellery, it is now mostly kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris, although parts of the treasure...
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (redirect from Bibliothèque du Roi)
who made a sort of catalogue, Inventoire des Livres du Roy nostre Seigneur estans au Chastel du Louvre. Jean Blanchet made another list in 1380 and Jean...
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (category Louvre Palace)
occupies the Pavillon de Marsan, the north-western wing of the Palais du Louvre. With approximately one million objects in its collection, the Musée des...
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Winged Victory of Samothrace (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
kept in reserve at the Louvre, and restored the statue blowing into a trumpet that she raises with her right arm, as on the coin. The two men thus managed...
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Île de la Cité (redirect from Île du Palais)
bridge, the Pont Neuf. Even with the departure of the French kings to the Louvre Palace across the right bank, and then to the Palace of Versailles, the...
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Japanese psychiatrist working at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in France, coined the term in the 1980s and published a book of the same name in 1991. Katada...
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glimpsed in The Dream of Endymion (1791, Musée du Louvre, Paris) and The Burial of Atala (1808, Musée du Louvre, Paris). Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was...
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the role of the building changed. He decided to move his residence to the Louvre Castle, and the Hotel Saint-Pol. The concierge of the old palace was given...
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Lescot and Goujon were taken away from the project to the construct the new Louvre Palace; the building was completed in about 1560 by Jean Bullant, whose...
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Saint-Pierre found coins from the 3rd century and the remains of a major wall. Earlier excavations in the 17th century at the Fontaine-du-But (2 rue Pierre-Dac)...
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Saint-Raymond, musée des Antiques de Toulouse, rouvre ses portes". Revue du Louvre (in French) (3): 24–27. François Pernot (2004). L'Or (in French). Paris:...
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Traditional French units of measurement (redirect from Pied du roi)
of near-identical length – the Toise du Pérou, custody of which was given to l'Académie des Sciences au Louvre. Although the pouce (inch), pied (foot)...
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65 cm; Louvre Melancholy; by Constance Marie Charpentier; 1801; oil on canvas; 130 x 165; Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France Portrait of Charlotte du Val...
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(Documentary, by Yves Jeuland) – Herself 2001: Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre (by Jean-Paul Salomé) – Woman in the cemetery 2002: Jedermanns Fest (by...
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Louvre along the Seine, the galerie du bord de l'eau, which connected the old Louvre with the new Tuileries Palace. The project of making the Louvre into...
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as the new philosopher Alain Finkielkraut coined the term, as an "Ideology of miscegenation" (une idéologie du métissage) that may come from what one other...
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France, works were placed in storage or for display in museums, like the Louvre, and enormous inventories of the confiscated works were attempted.: 33 ...
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dismantled and reerected in the castle and the statue moved to the musée du Louvre. Since 1955, the castle has also housed collections from the Musée national...
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suggestion by Cambacérès. The design was made by Vivant Denon, Director of the Louvre. Sometimes called Flavius Childeric I. The name "Flavius" became a courtesy...
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for a new (southern) wing of Louvre, on the side of the Seine river, the galerie du bord-de-l'eau, to connect the Louvre with the Tuileries Palace. 14...
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(harpsichord) 1 CD Verany (1990) Six sonates en symphonie, op. 3, Les Musiciens du Louvre, dir. Marc Minkowski, 1 CD Archiv Produktion (1998) (OCLC 956264542) ;...
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family gave over 1000 objects to the museum in 1954. From 1895, the musée du Louvre provided nearly 400 objects (unguent vases, funerary figurines etc.) to...
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