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The Viaduc des Arts is a converted train line located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris which is now both a series of workshops for highly skilled artisans and, on the top level, the Promenade Plantée, a linear park. It was formerly the "Viaduc de Bastille," for the trains of the Paris-Bastille-Vincennes line.
The Cité internationale des arts was a Franco-Scandinavian idea proposed by the Finnish artist Eero Snellman (1890-1951) during a speech at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. It was only after the Second World War that this idea was taken up by Mr. and Mrs. Félix Brunau and became a real project.
The 12th arrondissement of Paris (XII e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. Situated on the right bank of the River Seine, it is the easternmost arrondissement of Paris, as well as the largest by area. In 2019, it had a population of 139,297.
Now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs: Musée de la Poupée: 2017 Musée de la Publicité: 1999: Now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs Musée de la Serrure: 2003: Musée de Notre Dame de Paris: 2008: Musée de Radio France: 2007: Collections stored Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits: 2014
Area code zones of metropolitan France. Area codes are issued by default with the prefix 0 by telephone carriers. The area codes are defined as the second "Z" digit in the dialing encoding pattern E Z AB PQ MCDU. French territory (except for Pacific Ocean dependencies, which have their own dialing patterns) was divided into five broad areas ...
Among the museums managed by the city of Paris, which is free to open, Petit Palais is the collection point. most attractive, followed by the Carnavalet Museum and the City Museum of Modern Art. The Grévin Museum, which welcomed 762,000 visitors in 2007, continues to rank as the top private museum by admissions.
The Sorbonne - one of the universities of Paris (Paris IV), the centre of Paris's Latin Quarter. Statue of Liberty replicas - A smaller version of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 's Liberty Enlightening the World , the New York City harbor statue which France gave to the United States in 1886, located on the Île aux Cygnes on the Seine in the ...
The Musée des Arts et Métiers (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ e metje]; English: Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.