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The Maison Losseau is an Art Nouveau private house located in Mons, Belgium.Dating from the 18th century, it was renovated in Art Nouveau style in the early 1900s at the request of Léon Losseau by Paul Saintenoy.
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The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century, or PARIS21, was established in November 1999 by the United Nations, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (), the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank as a response to the UN Economic and Social Council resolution on the goals of the UN International Conference on ...
Issy-les-Moulineaux is a municipality located on the edge of the 15th arrondissement of Paris, along the main axis between Paris and Versailles, and on the left bank of the Seine. The town is situated 7.5 kilometers southwest of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, the central point of France's road network, and 3 kilometers from the town hall of ...
The International Astronomical Union head office is located on the second floor of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. [11] The Théâtre Rive Gauche is located at 6, rue de la Gaîté. Several contemporary art galleries are also located in the 14th arrondissement, such as the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain , the Musée Adzak and ...
In the 18th century, Paris was the centre of the intellectual ferment known as the Enlightenment, and the main stage of the French Revolution from 1789, which is remembered every year on the 14th of July with a military parade. In the 19th century, Napoleon embellished the city with monuments to military glory. It became the European capital of ...
The original Egmont Palace was built between 1548 and 1560 as a hôtel particulier in Flemish Gothic style for Countess Françoise of Luxembourg [], Princess of Gavre and widow of Count John IV of Egmont, who in 1532 had acquired the land between the Rue aux Laines / Wolstraat and the Rue du Grand Cerf / Grotehertstraat on the highest part of the Sablon/Zavel.
The population of Paris was 1,851,792 in 1872, at the beginning the Belle Époque.By 1911, it reached 2,888,107, higher than the population today. Near the end of the Second Empire and the beginning of the Belle Époque, between 1866 and 1872, the population of Paris grew only 1.5%.