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Situated to Beaubourg in the 4th district, the Centre Pompidou contains the National Museum of Modern Art.
Of the level 0 ( the Forum) at the level 6 (the temporary exhibitions(exposures), the panoramic restaurant), the spaces of the Centre are occasions of meetings with the arts of the 20th century.
Pipes hung on the facade provoked a scandal when the centre Pompidou opened the first time in 1977.
Of the last floor, we can see the roofs of the Parisian buildings. |
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Paris' original attempt at urban planning, the Place des Vosges is now its oldest square.
The square acquired its present name in 1799 when the Department of the Vosges.
Several of its houses have their own particular histories : number 1 bis where Mme de Sevigné was born, number 17, former residence of Bossuet; number 21 where Richelieu lived from 1615 - 1627, and number 6 - now a museum: Maison de Victor Hugo.
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The district of The Bastille is famous at the same moment for its History, but also for its Opera.
The Column of July dominates the Place the Bastille. It marks the site of the prison of the Bastille which was taken by assault by the crowd in 1789 at the beginning of the French Revolution. In the subway station, below the place, we can always see stones which constituted the foundations of the Bastille. |
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Under the old régime, this was the place of popular celebrations, but it became associated with the bloody events of the Terror after Louis XVI, Danton, Robespierre and many others were executed here. In 1795 it was renamed Place de la Concorde in a sign of national reconciliation.
Louis-Philippe, wanting to bring royalists and republicans back together, chose a monument without any political significance in erecting the Obelisk of Luxor in the center of the square, presented as a gift by the Egyptian Viceroy Méhémet Ali.
After a two and a half year voyage from the banks of the Nile the granite monolith, whose ancient hieroglyphics were carved more than 3,000 years ago under Ramesis II, was erected in front of 200,000 spectators, on October 25, 1836. |
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Hôtel Jacques de Molay - Hotel Paris
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