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In July 1357, Étienne Marcel, provost of the merchants (i.e. mayor) of Paris, bought the so-called maison aux piliers ("House of Pillars") in the name of the municipality on the gently sloping shingle beach which served as a river port for unloading wheat and wood and later merged into a square, the Place de Grève ("Strand Square"), a place where Parisians often gathered, particularly for ...
Robert Doisneau (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) [1] was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalis
Hotel du Palais Biarritz in 1919. The building is set on the main beach of the town, which lies on the rugged coast of the Bay of Biscay at the foot of the Pyrenees. [2] In 1854, the emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie bought several acres of dunes in Biarritz and gave the engineer Dagueret the task of establishing a summer home surrounded by gardens, woods, meadows, a pond and ...
The English word hotel developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers; modern French also uses hôtel in this sense. For example, the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde was built as an hôtel particulier and is today a public hotel. In French, an hôtel de ville or mairie is a town hall and not a
Chapeau (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a village in the Canadian province of Quebec, located along the Culbute Channel of the Ottawa River in the municipality of L'Isle-aux-Allumettes in Pontiac Regional County Municipality. There is speculation as to the real origin of the name "Chapeau" (French for "hat").
the Hôtel du Timbre was used by the stamp duty administration until 1973, [6] and subsequently became a local office of the French tax authorities until 2023. [4] It eventually reached a total floor size of about ten thousand square meters. [7] In 2022, the Hôtel du Timbre was auctioned away by the French government. [8]
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The Hôtel du Louvre is a Parisian luxury hotel in the Second Empire style, with a 5-star rating. It is located opposite the Louvre Museum , on Place André-Malraux in the 1st arrondissement . It is owned by the Constellation Hotels Holdings group and operated by the Hyatt chain.