Places, museums, monuments : 61
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Place, museum or monumentBaltard 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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Place, museum or monumentNational Museum of the Légion d’Honneur and the order of knights
The Légion d'honneur was instituted by Bonaparte on 29 Floréal, An X, (19 May, 1802) as a reward for civil and military services and virtues which had “contributed to the defence and prosperity of the country”. Borrowing its name from Roman antiquity, it took as its motto the words “Honour and Homeland”. There are three […]
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Place, museum or monumentPanthéon
Conceived following a wish of Louis XV, Saint- Geneviève church was built by Soufflot then by Rondelet from 1764 to 1789. In 1791, the Constituent Assembly transformed the new church into a temple destined “to receive the great men of the epoch of French liberty.” Mirabeau, Voltaire, Le Peletier of Saint-Fargeau, Bara, Rousseau and Marat […]
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Place, museum or monumentLittle Malmaison
The Petit Malmaison (Little Malmaison) is a private and listed historicalmonument, commissioned in 1803 by the Empress Josephine, who desired to have a space on the Malmaison estate reserved for her passion, botany. Initially, she called on the landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel (1728-1810). But he was soon to be replaced by Jean Thomas Thibault(1757-1826) and […]
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Place, museum or monumentCarnavalet Museum
In 1866, after his town planning projects had removed a section of the heart of Paris, Baron Haussmann decided to create a museum dedicated to the history of the capital. It was thus at his instigation that the city of Paris purchased the Carnavalet Hotel, a splendid building constructed in 1548 for Jacques de Ligneris, […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseum and National Estate of Versailles and the Trianon.
The symbol par excellence of French monarchy, Versailles once again became a royal residence during the First Empire. Napoleon had the palace restored and made up his mind to spend every summer there but had to abdicate before having time to carry out his plan. Marie-Louise occupied the Trianon from 1810 to 1814 after marrying […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée d’Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay collection ranges from 1848 to 1914 and thus displays important pieces from the Second Empire (1852-1870. In keeping with its original aim, its ambition is to present all of the artistic diversity of the period through various types of artistic objects: paintings, sculptures, architectural projects and ornamentation are combined in every room […]
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Place, museum or monumentGarnier Opera House
On 29th September, 1860, Napoleon III ordered the construction of a new opera house to replace the one in rue Le Peletier, a temporary building both too narrow and situated in a congested area of Paris. A contest in which 171 applicants competed was launched in December. It was won by a young architect still unknown […]
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Place, museum or monumentDosne-Thiers Foundation
The Parisian town mansion which houses Dosne-Thiers Foundation was built in Place Saint-George by a stockbroker whose daughter, Elise Dosne married the politician Louis-Adolphe Thiers. From 1833 onwards, Elise and Louis Adolphe entertained many celebrities of the time and put together an important collection of books and works of art. The private mansion was burnt down […]
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Place, museum or monumentElysée Palace
This palace, which dates back to the 18th century, became in 1805 the official residence of Joachim Murat, the Governor of Paris at the time, and his wife Caroline, Napoleon's sister. Restored by Vignon and Thibault, the palace owes two of its most splendid rooms to these two architects: the “Salon Murat” and the “Salon […]