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| Jardin des Tuileries Rue de Rivoli, Paris, 75001 |  |
The great Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while his chateau, Versailles, was under construction. When he left, the building was abandoned, used only as a theater, until the return of the ill-fated royal family ... more
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| Palais-Royal Place du Palais-Royal, Paris, 75001 | |
During breakfast one morning, we became engaged in a conversation about the differences between how things were in France when Mitterrand was in power and how they are now with Chirac. The conversation then led to the hi... more
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| Rock en Seine Paris | |
Last time I saw Faithless was at V2006. Of their many assets, the ability to get a crowd worked into a frenzy is their most powerful. Maxie Jazz performs like a whirling dervish. All the more remarkable when you consider... more
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| Canal St-Martin Rue Lafayette, (rue du Faubourg du Temple), Paris, 75010 | |
Long a working-class neighborhood with an edge, the Canal St-Martin is the latest quartier to be reinvented by artists and young bohemians. Built in the early 1800s for industrial transport, the canal is spanned by hump-... more
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| Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris 6 Place du Parvis-de-Notre-Dame, (Quai aux Fleurs), Paris, 75004 | |
Notre-Dame is now viewed as one of the key defining examples of the style which was to become known as Ile-de-France Gothic, by the early nineteenth century few Parisians valued their medieval past very highly. Interest ... more
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| Opera Garnier 8 Rue Scribe, Paris, 75009 | |
All you loyal readers of my Nürnberg page (thanks again to both of you!) will recall that there I talked about the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) and his opera Iphigenie in Aulis, composed in 1774. Here i... more
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| Place des Vosges Quai du Marche Neuf, (Quai de L'horloge), Paris, 75004 | |
Situated in the heart of the Marais, the Place de Vosges is both Paris' oldest square and arguably its most beautiful. Begun in 1605 as residences for courtiers in the service of Henri IV and completed in 1612, with arca... more
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| Institut du Monde Arabe 1 Rue des Fosses-Saint-Bernard, Place Mohammed V, Paris, 75005 | |
Many factors have contributed to France's preoccupation with the Arab world, but three of the most important include trade links that developed during the Crusades, a large Arab population living today in France, and the... more
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| Cimetiere du Montparnasse 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, Paris, 75014 | |
In May the trees were all in blossom, and you could hear the wind rustling gently through them. The graves are easy to reach. Relatives, friends, and admirers have added personal touches to the gravestones, including flo... more
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| Bibliotheque Nationale de France Quai Francois-Mauriac, Cedex 13, Paris, 75013 | |
This is one of the largest buildings in Paris - and one of the largest libraries in all of Europe. Most of its contents were moved to the new site (the Bibliothèque François Mitterand or Très Grande Bibliothèque [Ver... more
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