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    The Avenue des Champs-Élysées (UK: /ˌʃɒ̃z eɪˈliːzeɪ, ɛ-/, US: /ʃɒ̃z ˌeɪliˈzeɪ/; French: [av(ə)ny de ʃɑ̃z‿elize] ) is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement...
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  • The Rivière des Roches (English: River of rocks) is a tributary of the west bank of the Sainte-Anne River, on the north bank of the Saint Lawrence River...
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  • Roche advocated for the redesign of Caracas, to include developed corridors to a multi-purpose center. His suggestion involved a 36-meter-wide avenue...
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    by the Conservatoire régional des Monuments historiques revealed new additions to the documentary history of La Roche-Guyon, undertaken in the 19th century...
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    Négrier (1788–1848) (heart) Robert Nivelle (1856–1924) Nicolas d'Orange des Roches [fr] (1618–1705), Governor 1696–1705 Philippe Antoine d'Ornano (1784–1863)...
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    (Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). The Petit Palais is located across from the Grand Palais on the former Avenue Nicolas II, today Avenue Winston-Churchill...
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    The Avenue George V is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It starts at the Place de l'Alma, and ends at 99 avenue des Champs-Elysées. It marks...
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    The Avenue Foch (French pronunciation: [avny fɔʃ]) is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand...
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    Paris. Grigny is served by Grigny-Centre station on Paris RER line D. The Avenue des Sablons, about 10 km long, is the main thoroughfare of Grigny, a small...
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  • Anciens de l'École des Roches Normandie. 10 May 2014. Clémençot, Julien. "Élites africaines: l’École des riches, eu ... des roches!" Jeune Afrique. 29...
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  • established firms. The company became Roche Ltd, Consulting Group in 1984. In 1991, it built its head office at 3075, chemin des Quatre-Bourgeois, in Quebec City...
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  • Périgueux Avenue Christophe Colomb, 38090, Villefontaine, Arrondissement of La Tour-du-Pin Passage Christophe Colomb, 37700, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Arrondissement...
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    axes: Axis Avenue de Wagram and Avenue Kléber Axis Avenue Hoche and Avenue Victor-Hugo Axis Avenue de Friedland and Avenue Foch Axis Avenue des Champs-Élysées...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France...
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    Beyond these stables is the Place d'Armes, where the Avenue de Paris meets the Avenue de Sceaux and Avenue de Saint-Cloud (see map), the three roads that formed...
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    collapse of a house along the "rue d'Enfer" (near today's crossing of the Avenue Denfert-Rochereau and the boulevard Saint-Michel) caused King Louis XVI...
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    The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (French pronunciation: [paʁk de byt ʃomɔ̃]; English: Park of the Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern...
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    he made plans for an avenue with two rows of trees on either side, which would have continued west to the present Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées. Le Nôtre...
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    Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (category Members of the Académie des beaux-arts)
    was born in 1828 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée. He studied art under Michel Martin Drolling and enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1845. He won...
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    The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ palɛ de ʃɑ̃z‿elize]; English: Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as...
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    The Place des Vosges (French pronunciation: [plas de voʒ]), originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France. It is located...
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    listed as a French historical monument in 10 February 1871. The Foundation des Bernardins, which operates the college, is placed under the control of the...
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    Howard avenues; the street is in Niles on either side of this stretch). At Golf Road it passes the Golf Mill Shopping Center. It crosses the Des Plaines...
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    Arc de Triomphe (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
    1965–1966 it was cleaned through bleaching. In the prolongation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a new arch, the Grande Arche de la Défense, was built...
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    secondary school); the Avenue Paul Doumer, which also approaches the Muette; the Avenue d'Eylau, which goes to the Mexico Plaza; the Avenue Kléber, which goes...
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    Fifth Avenue is the primary museum building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The building is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along...
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    of the académies. The building was originally constructed as the Collège des Quatre-Nations by Cardinal Mazarin, as a school for students from new provinces...
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    Louvre (redirect from Salle des Etats)
    and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de...
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    in Paris. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The ancient oppidum that corresponds to the modern...
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    Robert Meacham. Later it was named Brickton. The Des Plaines River divides Park Ridge from neighboring Des Plaines, which is west of Park Ridge. Chicago...
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