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It was renamed the Rue Saint-Dominique in 1643 after the Dominican monastery set up a few years earlier near the eastern end of the street (now absorbed by the Boulevard Saint-Germain), whose only remnant is the Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin on the Place Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (called the Place des Jacobins until 1802, after the Dominicans).
Notre-Dame de Paris (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ⓘ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, [a] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes (Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes) is a Catholic church located at 70 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built as the chapel of a convent of the mendicant order of Shoeless Carmelites .
Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments (in French). Paris: F. Lazare. Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments. "Recherche des rues de Paris" [Search the streets of Paris]. Paris.fr (in French). Mairie de Paris
The Boulevard Saint-Germain was the most important part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris (1850s and '60s) on the Left Bank. The boulevard replaced numerous small streets which approximated its path, including, from west to east (to the current Boulevard Saint-Michel), the Rue Saint-Dominique, Rue Taranne, Rue Sainte-Marguerite, Rue des Boucheries and Rue des Cordeliers. [1]
The Boulevard Saint-Michel was the other important part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris on the Left Bank along with the creation of the Boulevard Saint-Germain.It was formerly approximated by the Rue de la Harpe, which for centuries led from the Seine to the Porte Saint-Michel, a gate to the walls of Paris near what is now the intersection of the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Monsieur ...
The artistically lit interior of the Grand Palais in Paris by French visual artist Thierry Dreyfus, 2005. Nuit Blanche (French pronunciation: [nɥi ˈblɑ̃ʃ]) (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city.
Belleville (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements. The major portion of Belleville straddles the borderline between the 20th arrondissement and the 19th along its main street, the Rue de Belleville. The remainder lies in the 10th and 11th arrondissements.