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Places, museums, monuments : 3

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Baltard Pavilion

In the town of Nogent-sur-Marne stand the last remains of the Grandes Halles de Paris, Paris's great covered market known as Les Halles and built during the Second Empire. Only as a result of the town's obstinacy was this pavilion the only one to escape demolition in 1970. The Baltard Pavilion (Pavilion number 8) for […]
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Père Lachaise Cemetery

As a result of the law of 23rd Prairial (21st June) year XII (1804)prohibiting burial in churches, convents and cemeteries within thecity walls, Nicolas Frochot, who had been prefect of the Seine since 1800, decided to create four Parisian necropolises situatedoutside the walls and at the four points of the compass. Onlythree of the necropolises […]
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Rue Rivoli, Paris

The idea of driving a triumphal route through Paris from east to west emerged during the Ancien Regime, but it was never to be realised. Indeed the need for a main channel of communication between the place de la Concorde and the Louvre was bitterly felt during the revolutionary revolts around the Tuileries – and […]