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On 12 August 1843, the Rue Royale was the scene for a bizarre phenomenon, when tens of thousands of butterflies landed, causing chaos and swarming the shops and restaurants. The pillars of the Madeleine were, reportedly, "covered". [1] The street was the site of heavy fighting and damage during the Paris Commune in the spring of 1871.
Rue Royale (French for "Royal Street") may refer to several streets: Rue Royale, Brussels, Belgium; Rue Royale, Lyon, France; Rue Royale, Paris, France; See also
The Rue de Richelieu is a long street of Paris, starting in the south of the 1st arrondissement at the Comédie-Française and ending in the north of the 2nd arrondissement. For the first half of the 19th century, before Georges-Eugène Haussmann redefined Paris with grand boulevards, it was one of the most fashionable streets of Paris.
18.1% 1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is ...
Français : Plaque apposée au n° 18 de la rue de Martignac, Paris 7 e, où séjourna Jean Monnet (1888-1979) à l'époque où il était commissaire au plan (1946-1952). Date 12 April 2010
He was born on 12 October 1862 in Paris, France, into a wealthy bourgeois family. [2] His father, a well-established journalist, supported Louis's artistic ambitions from a young age. Growing up in an affluent household, de Schryver was exposed to the sophisticated culture of Paris, which would later become the primary subject of his artistic work.
Palais-Royal on the 1739 Turgot map of Paris with the gardens as redesigned by Claude Desgots in 1729. The palace itself fronts on its small square. After the Regency, the social life of the palace became much more subdued. Louis XV moved the court back to Versailles and Paris was again ignored. The same happened with the Palais-Royal.
Rue Berger - Jean Jacque Berger (1791-1859), prefect of the Seine; Rue Bertin-Poirée - Bertin Poirée, a resident of the street [7] Allée Blaise-Cendrars - Blaise Cendrars (1877-1961), writer; Rue des Bons-Enfants - Collège des Bons-Enfants; Rue Boucher - Pierre-Richard Boucher, politician [8] Rue du Bouloi - a hotel once situated there