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Restaurant De La Pyramide, popularly known as La Pyramide, was a Michelin Guide 3-star restaurant located in Vienne, Isère, France. [1] It was widely regarded as the greatest restaurant in France while its owner Fernand Point (1897–1955) was alive.
The Louvre Pyramid (French: Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei.The pyramid is in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids.
In 1922, he and his family moved to Vienne, a city in southeast France near Lyon, and opened a restaurant. Two years later his father left the restaurant to Fernand, who renamed it La Pyramide. [3] Point opened Restaurant de la Pyramide when he was 24, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Lyon in the town of Vienne.
Part of the Louvre Inverted Pyramid View of the square base of the Louvre's Inverted Pyramid, located in the middle of the roundabout of the Place du Carrousel. The Louvre Inverted Pyramid (French: Pyramide inversée du Louvre) [1] is a skylight constructed in the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall in front of the Louvre Museum in France.
Place des Pyramides and its Jeanne d'Arc statue. The Place des Pyramides is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France It is located in the middle of the Rue de Rivoli, at its intersection with the Rue des Pyramides and the Avenue du General Lemonnier, at the eastern end of the Tuileries Garden.
The Pyramide Inversée (Inverted Pyramid) is displayed in the underground Louvre shopping mall. The Tama-Re village was an Egyptian-themed set of buildings and monuments built near Eatonton, Georgia by Nuwaubians in 1993 that was mostly demolished after it was sold in 2005. The Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, United States, is a 30-story pyramid.
The campaign against the pyramid peaked in 1985, with the creation by former Culture Minister Michel Guy of an association dedicated to that fight (association pour le renouveau du Louvre) and the publication of the polemic Paris mystifié: La grande illusion du Grand Louvre by respected scholars Bruno Foucart , Sébastien Loste et Antoine ...
The mall contains a famous skylight, La Pyramide Inversée (Louvre Inverted Pyramid), which plays an important role in the best-selling 2003 book The Da Vinci Code. Among other stores, it had the first Apple Store in France, and a McDonald's restaurant, which created controversy at the time. [1]