The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie. The Pont Royal...
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Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (/djuːˈpɒnt, ˈdjuːpɒnt/ dew-PONT, DEW-pont, French: [eløtɛʁ iʁene dy pɔ̃ d(ə) nəmuʁ]; 24 June 1771 – 31 October 1834)...
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DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and...
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Loire: Pont de l'Europe, Pont du Maréchal Joffre (also called Pont Neuf), Pont George-V (also called Pont Royal, carrying the commune tramway), Pont René-Thinat...
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virtue is its own reward" (Camus 288). Late one night when crossing the Pont Royal on his way home from his "mistress", however, Clamence comes across a...
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as well as a bridge which appears to be the Pont Royal. This indicates that the girl is standing on the Pont de Solférino. William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery...
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The Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment (French: Régiment Royal-Deux-Ponts; German: Infanterieregiment Königlich Zweibrücken) was a Palatinate-Zweibrücken regiment...
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Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (redirect from Pont de Solférino)
passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly known as passerelle Solférino (or pont de Solférino), is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement...
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begins at the Rue des Saints-Pères and ends at the Rue de Bac and the Pont Royal. Originally the Quai Voltaire was the western portion of the Quai Malaquais...
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Francis Du Pont (September 27, 1803 – June 23, 1865) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, and a member of the prominent Du Pont family. In the...
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in Paris, France, stands at the southwest end of the Louvre, near the Pont Royal. It was originally constructed in 1607–1610, during the reign of Henry...
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(pedestrian) Pont du Carrousel Pont Royal Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (1999) (pedestrian, formerly the Passerelle de Solférino, renamed in 2006) Pont de la...
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by the nearby Pont Neuf after which it is named. It opened in 1926 with the line's extension from Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre to Pont Marie. The station...
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Pont d'Iéna ("Jena Bridge") is a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris. It links the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank to the district of Trocadéro on the...
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Paris in the 17th century (section Royal manufactories)
of the city's most famous parks and monuments, including the Pont Neuf, the Palais Royal, the newly joined Louvre and Tuileries Palace, the Place des...
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and two million, with a figure of 500,000 currently accepted by Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Health. Although not without conflict, European...
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commerce des blés ("Dialogues on the commerce in wheat") and walking by Pont Royal, he was inspired to write a dialogue between Montesquieu and Machiavelli...
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The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes)...
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The Pont du Carrousel (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ dy kaʁuzɛl]) is a bridge in Paris, which spans the River Seine between the Quai des Tuileries and the...
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Louvre Palace (category Royal residences in France)
by Israël Silvestre Similar view in 1656, by Reinier Nooms The Pont Rouge (now Pont Royal), Pavillon de Flore and western section of the Grande Galerie...
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Pont Marie (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ maʁi]) is a station of the Paris Métro opened in 1926 with the extension of Line 7 from Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre...
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Montagnes de l'Arc (1993), Rocher Soleil (1996) Sofap Loisirs and Pont-Royal (1997). Pont-Royal was a key piece in the company's growth, because the French...
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The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nœf], "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western...
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members such as William duPont, Jr., Allaire du Pont, Marion duPont Scott, Jane du Pont Lunger, and Alice du Pont Mills, Esther du Pont too became a fan of...
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Pont Street is a fashionable street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, traversing the areas of Knightsbridge and Belgravia. The street...
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the world). It is also the site of the city's oldest surviving bridge, the Pont Neuf. Even with the departure of the French kings to the Louvre Palace across...
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Pont-Saint-Esprit The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, known in French as Le Pain Maudit, took place on 15 August 1951, in the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit...
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the pont Rouge (also known as the pont Barbier) to replace the old bac (ferry). In 1689, the bridge was rebuilt of stone, and named the Pont Royal. 1633...
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construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge in 1874. The Royal Bridge (now called Pont Déry), was reconstructed several times because of the weakness...
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Roucy, and secondly John of Bar Beatrice de Dreux (1270–1328), Abbess of Pont-Royal Robert de Dreux, seigneur de Cateau-du-Loire Bubenicek 2002, pp. 54–55...
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