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AU FIVE HOTEL |
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Au Five Hotel - hotel Paris
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Luxembourg's Garden  |
The palace was built in the early 1600s for Queen Marie de Medicis, the widow of King Henri IV. Today, it's the home of the French Senate. The gardens are a public park (the largest on the Left Bank). |
Pantheon  |
The Pantheon was built as a church between 1764 and 1790. Its huge coupole dominates Paris from the top of the Sainte-Geneviève hill on the Seine left bank. During the 1789 french revolution and shortly after its construction, the Panthéon was turned into a memorial to illustrous frenchmen. It now houses among others the remains of Pierre and Marie Curie, the physicists who discovered the radioactivity, of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo.
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Saint Germain des Prés  |
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is for a long time a district in the particular charm at which the mystery does not stop amazing and inspiring numerous authors. The suburb develops bit by bit to become from the XVIIth the home of the literary and dramatic world. Already the artists take for custom to meet in the numerous cafes which bloom(prosper) in the district, such Procope which opens its doors in 1689 to the fair Saint Germain. After the Revolution the district is abandoned to return fashionably only after the second World war. Indeed the district takes up with a certain intellectual tradition; it is the time of the cellars of St-Germain-des-Prés associated to famous names such as Vian, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir whom we could see in the Café de Flore or in Les Deux Magots. |
Tour Montparnasse  |
Inaugurated in 1974, this tower of 210 meters, is second only to the Eiffel Tower. 56 piles, sunk 70 meters underground, support this building combing offices and leisure spaces. At its feet spreads a lively district, which still retains the memories of the Roaring Twenties where, between the Rotonde and the Coupole, French and American artists and writers congregated to enjoy themselves, particularly during prohibition in the United States. |
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