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Saint-Germain-Laval (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ laval] ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Population [ edit ]
Houses at l'Estaque (French: Maisons à l'Estaque, or Maisons et arbre) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Georges Braque executed in 1908. It is considered either an important Proto-Cubist landscape [2] or the first Cubist landscape. [3] The painting prompted art critic Henri Matisse to mock it as being composed of cubes which led to the name of ...
29 May 1989: A 8.5 km (5.3 mi) branch is added off the "Interconnexion Ouest" connecting Maisons-Laffitte and Poissy. 1 April 1992 : The Ligne nouvelle de Marne-la-Vallée is completed with a 11 km (6.8 mi) extension to Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy , creating a link to Disneyland Paris – which opens on 12 April 1992.
Laval (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a town in western France, about 300 km (190 mi) west-southwest of Paris, and the capital of the Mayenne department. Its inhabitants are called Lavallois . The commune of Laval proper, without the metropolitan area, is the 7th most populous in the Pays de la Loire region and the 132nd in France.
It is a part of the affluent outer suburbs of northwestern Paris, 18.2 km (11.3 mi) from its centre. Maisons-Laffitte is famous for the Château de Maisons-Laffitte, built by architect François Mansart in the 17th century, and its horse racing track, the Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse. Église Saint-Nicolas was built between 1867 and 1872.
The Paris-Sud-Est LGV has gradients of up to 3.5% (on the German NBS high-speed line between Cologne and Frankfurt they reach 4%). On a high-speed line it is possible to have greater superelevation (cant), since all trains are travelling at the same (high) speed and a train stopping on a curve is a very rare event. Curve radii in high-speed ...
Planned high-speed rail link Paris—Bratislava. The Magistrale for Europe [1] [2] (German: Magistrale für Europa; [3] French: Magistrale européenne [4]) or Main Line for Europe [5] is a Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) project for the creation of a high-speed railway line between Paris and Bratislava, with a branch-off to Budapest. [1]
Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche , a Swiss banker from Basel and collector of avant-garde art.