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Bienvenue à
Paris!
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La Tour Eiffel
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La Tour Eiffel• World’s Fair, 1889• 1652 steps – world's
tallest building until 1930• 2 years (1887-1889) to
construct • People hated it• Almost destroyed (1909);
saved for antenna• Used for radio
transmissions thereafter
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L’Arc de Triomphe
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L’Arc de Triomphe
• Champs-Elysées• Place Charles de Gaulle• Commissioned by
Napoléon, 1806; completed 1836
• Relief sculptures at bases of the four pillars
• Names of major victories and 558 generals engraved on walls
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the eternal flame below
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La Cathédrale de Notre Dame
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La Cathédrale de Notre Dame: L’histoire
• Construction: 1163 (Louis VII) – 1345 (Philippe VI)
• Revolution ( 1789 ): Destruction and plundering; interior used for storage
• 2 December 1804: Coronation of Napoléon and Josephine
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La Cathédrale de Notre Dame: L’architecture
• Gothic style – ornate, detailed
• Stained Glass– Depicts saints or Biblical
scenes– La Rosasse – large,
circular window; Virgin Mary at center
• Flying Buttresses– Redistribute weight,
support exterior walls• Gargoyles
– Scare away bad spirits– Protect exterior walls from
water damage
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Le Musée du Louvre
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Le Musée du Louvre
• 1200: Construction began by King Philippe August– Fortress on banks of Seine
• 1300’s: Became official royal residence under Charles V
• Construction continued under many kings until 1682
• 1682: Louis XIV moved royal residence to Versailles
• 1793: Public Museum– Art now accessible to all
• The Pyramid opened April 1989 to serve as new entrance and reception area
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The Coronation of Josephineby Louis David
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Liberty Leading the Peopleby Eugène Delacroix
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Other Works at the Louvre
Canova:
Psyche and Cupid(detail)
Venus de Milo
da Vinci:
Mona Lisa (La Jaconde)
Victoire de Samothrace
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Versailles
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La Grande Arche de la Défense
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Les Arcs de Paris
• Form a straight line through Paris
• Line connects:– The Louvre– Arc du Caroussel– Place de la
Concorde– Champs Elysées– Arc de Triomphe– Arche de la
Défense (modern part of Paris)
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La Place de la Concorde
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La Place de la Concorde
• Held the guillotine that executed Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and 2800 others between 1793 and 1795
• The smell of blood was so strong that a herd of cattle refused to cross the place
• Obelisk of Luxor, a gift from Egypt – Heirogliphics
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La Place de la Bastille
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La Place de la Bastille
• The Colonne de Juillet• It marks the site of the
prison known as the Bastille– stormed by the Mob in
1789 at the start of the French Revolution.
• This square is also home to the Opéra Bastille– completed in 1990– commemorates
bicentennial of Revolution
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L’Opéra National de Paris
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L’Opéra Garnier(Paris Opera House)
• Built in 1875• Scene of The
Phantom of the Opera– Written by Gaston
Leroux
• Garnier also designed the Café de la Paix
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Montmartre et Sacré Cœur
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Montmartre et Sacré Cœur• Montmartre = Section
of Paris• Basilique du Sacré
Cœur• Place du Tertre
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Le Panthéon, L’Hôtel des Invalides
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Le Panthéon, L’Hôtel des Invalides
• Le Panthéon– Necropolis– Voltaire, Rousseau,
Hugo, 58 more
• L’Hôtel des Invalides– Arms for Mob – Napoléon’s tomb
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Œuvres Citées / Works Cited
• Photos of monuments and title page Paris map taken from www.paris.org.
• Paris map with monuments taken from http://www.apartaparis.com/plan_paris.html.
• All Louvre artwork taken from www.louvre.fr.• The Storming of the Bastille painting taken from
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/17352/mcms.html.
• The “Phantom of the Opera” Mask and Rose taken from http://kms.kalahari.net/ann/ct/lg/2954345.jpg.