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The iconic mill structure, supported by a central facade adorned with oval dormers, was designed by Gesmar, a 20-year-old set designer whose work became synonymous with the venue. Jacques-Charles and Mistinguett collaborated on several acclaimed revues, including: 1925: Revue Mistinguett. 1926: Ça c'est Paris. 1928: Paris qui tourne
The Great Mills of Paris (Grands Moulins de Paris) is the second main campus of Paris Cité University after the Latin Quarter, located on the Quai Panhard-et-Levassor, Paris. Historically, they are former industrial flour mills built in Paris during World War I .
The Paris area was a relatively flat sea-bottom during the early Cretaceous period: first in a deep-sea environment, then under a more agitated near-shoreline sea towards the end of the same period, Paris's largely silica-based sedimentary deposits became, under the action of pressure and the carbonic acid content of seawater, a thick deposit ...
This image is a part of a set of featured pictures, which means that members of the community have identified it as part of a related set of the finest images on the English Wikipedia. The main image in the set is File:Turgot map of Paris - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg.
General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
Physical map of Paris. The topography, or physical lay of the land, of Paris, the capital of France, is relatively flat, with an elevation of 35 m (115 ft) above sea level, [14] but it contains a number of hills: Montmartre: 130 m (430 ft) above sea level (ASL). It was leveled in the 18th century. Belleville: 148 m (486 ft) ASL [14]
The Louvre, once Paris' second Royal Palace, is today a museum, garden , and, more recently, a shopping mall and fashion-show centre (Le Carrousel du Louvre). The Palais-Royal just to its north, originally a residence of the Cardinal Richelieu , is a walled garden behind its rue de Rivoli facade, with covered and columned arcades that house ...
An academic debate about the original location of Lutetia began in 2006, following the excavation in 1994–2005 of a large Gallic necropolis, with residences and temples, at Nanterre, along the Seine in the Paris suburbs. Some historians have put forward this settlement at Nanterre as the Lutetia of the Gauls, rather than Île de la Cité.