The Bassin de la Villette (La Villette Basin) is the largest artificial lake in Paris. It was filled with water on 2 December 1808. Located in the 19th...
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Gramont who left his name to the hôtel particulier Hôtel de Gramont which was built on the site. In 1721, the Duchesse de Gramont, who had become a widow...
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The Château de Villette is a château (a French manor house) located in Condécourt, France, 40 km (24.8 mi) northwest of Paris. There are numerous outbuildings...
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Musée Carnavalet (redirect from Hôtel Carnavalet)
The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann,...
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Villette is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux...
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Lyon tramway (redirect from Tramway de Lyon)
de Vigny Saint-Priest–Hôtel de Ville Esplanade des Arts Jules Ferry Cordière Saint-Priest–Bel Air Line T2 has been extended from Perrache to Hôtel de...
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CSI is the biggest science museum in Europe. Located in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is one of the three dozen French Cultural Centers...
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lover, Rétaux de Villette, a common gigolo and Nicolas's fellow officer in the gendarmerie. Around 1783, she met Cardinal Prince Louis de Rohan. Jeanne...
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Théâtre de Besançon, 1778–1784 Hôtel Thellusson, rue de Provence, Paris, 1778 (destroyed in 1826 at the time the prolongation of rue Laffitte) Hôtel de Mme...
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the children went to the care of their paternal aunt, Madame de Villette. The Villettes' home, Mursay, became a happy memory for Françoise, who had been...
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Canal Saint-Martin (category Place de la Bastille)
from the vast terminal basin (Bassin de la Villette) of the Canal de l'Ourcq is at a double lock near the Place de Stalingrad. Continuing towards the river...
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Parc des Buttes Chaumont (section Temple de la Sibylle)
the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden. Opened in 1867, late in the...
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Charlotte Brontë (redirect from Stancliffes Hotel)
Brussels as the inspiration for some of the events in The Professor and Villette. After returning to Haworth, Charlotte and her sisters made headway with...
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mansion at No. 20 avenue Montaigne in Paris, as well as the Château de Villette in Pont-Sainte-Maxence and collected art. Stern was a Knight of the Legion...
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Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
created 166 new parks, most notably the Parc de la Villette (1987), Parc André Citroën (1992), Parc de Bercy (1997) and Parc Clichy-Batignolles (2007)...
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Girard and built on the site in 1811. Émile de La Bédollière wrote that the water came from la Villette and that the fountain was "superb" in character...
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2007, he moved his family into the Hôtel de Bouillon. No. 3 and no. 5: Hôtel Le Barbier, Hôtel Perrault, and Hôtel de La Briffe were all one unit until...
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deluxe hotels such as Hôtel Ritz, The Westin Paris – Vendôme, Hôtel de Toulouse (headquarters of Banque de France), Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, Hôtel Meurice...
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where it splits from the channeled river Ourcq, and flows to the Bassin de la Villette, where it joins the Canal Saint-Martin. Paris requires 380,000 cubic...
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Grande Arche (redirect from Arche de la Defense)
Grande Arche de la Défense (French: [la ɡʁɑ̃d aʁʃ də la defɑ̃s]; "The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité...
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channels, she joins forces with the arrogant, well-connected gigolo Rétaux de Villette and her own wayward, womanizing husband Nicholas. They concoct a plan...
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Louis-Pierre Marquet, 204 rue de Grenelle, 7th Henri Bunel and Fernand Dupuis, 39 rue d'Antin, 2nd Michel Rabier, 87 boulevard de la Villette, 10th 1899: Richard...
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extended from Croix-Paquet to Hôtel de Ville; in 1984 the line reached its current northern terminus at Cuire. Hôtel de Ville–Louis Pradel Croix-Paquet...
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Victor Baltard (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
also built the slaughterhouses and the cattle market of Les Halles de la Villette, as well as the tombs of composer Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély at...
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
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It was until 3 June 1930, the southern terminus of line 7 from Porte de la Villette and Pré-Saint-Gervais, replacing the previous terminus at Palais Royal...
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facilities in the Parc de la Villette were initiated under Bleuse and completed under Louvier. It opened as part of the Cité de la Musique in September...
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and Camille Claudel Parc de la Villette - hosting the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, a science museum, and the Cité de la Musique, which houses...
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Austria) Château de Maisons (1642–1646) Hôtel de Guénégaud (1648–1651) Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) – remodel Hôtel d'Aumont – remodel after Louis Le Vau Louis...
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2013, 224 p. The Hôtel de Vins bore its name from his former owner, the Marquis de Vins d'Agoult de Montauban. Now called the Hôtel Dupin, was located...
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