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L'Aqueduc de Marly painted by Alfred Sisley in 1874. View of the tour du Levant from the hillside above the Seine river. L'Aqueduc de Louveciennes (Louveciennes Aqueduct), sometimes called Aqueduc de Marly (Marly Aqueduct) is an aqueduct built in the 17th century under the reign of Louis XIV, located in Louveciennes (now in the French département of the Yvelines, in the west suburb of Paris).
It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, 18.4 km (11.4 mi) from the centre of Paris. Marly-le-Roi was the location of the Château de Marly, the famous leisure residence of the Sun King Louis XIV which was destroyed after the French Revolution. The Marly-le-Roi National Estate and Park now occupies much of the grounds of the former ...
Marly-le-Roi is the town that developed to serve the château, which was demolished in 1806 after passing into private ownership and being used as a factory. The town is now a bedroom community for Paris. At the Château of Marly, Louis XIV of France escaped from the formal rigors he was constructing at Versailles.
Near Louveciennes, 1872, by Sisley The Chemin des aqueducs by Sisley Vue de Louveciennes by Camille Pissarro, 1870, National Gallery, London.. British by birth, Sisley was unable to fight in the Franco-Prussian War and - fleeing the Siege of Paris - he first stayed at Louveciennes in autumn 1870, at which time he painted First Snow at Louveciennes (Boston Museum of Fine Arts), showing rue de ...
The first known cafes in Pest date back to 1714 when a house intended to serve as a Cafe (Balázs Kávéfőző) was purchased. Minutes of the Pest City Council from 1729 mention complaints by the Balázs café and Franz Reschfellner Cafe against the Italian-originated café of Francesco Bellieno for selling underpriced coffee. [52]
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