Places, museums, monuments : 61
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Place, museum or monumentPalais de Justice Law Courts, Paris
On the Ile de la Cité stands today one of the oldest and most prestigious official buildings in Paris, the Palais de Justice law courts. As far back as Roman times the site was used as a place of government, and this example was followed by the succeeding Merovingian and Capetian dynasties. As the kings […]
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Place, museum or monumentHôtel de Monaco, Paris
The Hôtel de Monaco was built between 1774 and 1777 for Marie-Catherine de Brignole, the estranged wife of Honoré-Camille-Léonor Grimaldi, prince of Monaco, himself residing in the Hôtel Matignon. Marie-Catherine chose this site (one of the last unbuilt plots on the faubourg Saint-Germain) so as to be close to the Palais Bourbon, the house of her […]
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Place, museum or monumentEcole Militaire – Champs-de-Mars Military School
After his schooling at Brienne, the young Bonaparte went to the Paris Ecole Militaire military school from 22nd October 1784 to 28th October 1785. He left as a second class lieutenant in the artillery, with a commission to join the La Fère regiment in Valence. In 1795 Bonaparte came back to the school to establish […]
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Place, museum or monumentPont des Arts Bridge
By a decree of 15th March 1801, Bonaparte ordered the construction of a bridge which would connect the Louvre and the Collège des Quatre-Nations, the present day Institut de France. And this work marks the introduction of a new building material, iron. An attempt had been made in Lyons but it was in Paris that […]
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Place, museum or monumentRue 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 […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée de la Marine, Paris
The Navy Museum in Paris is one of the oldest and most prestigious collections of its type in the world. In 1678, Colbert commissioned the governors of the arsenals to have models made to a scale of 1/12 and 1/20of the ships of all five classes. Some of these models were sent to court, others […]
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Place, museum or monumentCathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris
During the ancien regime, Notre-Dame de Paris did not host great occasions. This function was performed rather by other religious edifices in the capital and surrounding area – the Sainte-Chapelle was the receptacle of the crown of thorns brought back by Saint Louis, the cathedral at Reims was used for the coronation of the kings, […]
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Place, museum or monumentHôtel de Mondragon
General Bonaparte married 'Josephine' on 9 March, 1796, in Paris at the Mairie of the 2nd arrondissement, in other words the Hôtel Mondragon, the present-day head office of the bank Paribas. And the salon where the ceremony took place has been preserved just as it was on that historic day.The Hôtel de Mondragon was built […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseum of the Prefecture of Police
Housed in the police station of the fifth arrondissement in Paris, this museum was started by the prefect Louis Lépine, better known from the competition for inventors named after him. This museum, with its manuscripts, prints, portraits, posters and various other exhibits, takes visitors on a journey along the history of the Paris police from […]
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Place, museum or monumentChâteau de Grosbois Napoleonic Museum
At the end of the 16th century, the treasurer of the 'Epargne', lord of Blayes and Chardonnet, Raoul Moreau, built a château on the previously royal land of Grosbois. This estate was subsequently sold to the son of Charles IX, Charles d'Angoulème. And it was Angoulème who gave the park and the château its present-day […]