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The town hall of the second arrondissement of Paris (French: mairie du deuxième arrondissement de Paris) is the former town hall of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, at 8 rue de la Banque in Paris. It is one of only four mairies d'arrondissement built before the Second French Empire , together with those of the 5th, 6th, and 9th.
The arrondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and several banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier, and the Opéra-Comique's theatre, the Salle Favart. The 2nd arrondissement is the home of Grand Rex, the largest movie theater in Paris. [2]
Ninove means "nieuw weiland" or in English, "new pasture". During Roman rule, Ninove was a small settlement located in the current "Nederwijk". With the arrival of the Franks in the 4th century AD, the settlement grew to a small agricultural town. The area on which Ninove is located was from 843 on part of the Holy Roman Empire.
La vie quotidienne sous le Second Empire (2009), Armand Colin, Paris (ISBN 2-200-37226-4) Milza, Pierre. Napoleon III (Perrin, 2006), ISBN 978-2-262-02607-3; Pinkney, David H. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris (Princeton University Press, 1958) Weeks, Willet. The Man Who Made Paris: The Illustrated Biography of Georges-Eugène Haussmann ...
The street gives access to the Pont Neuf from the right bank to the south, and to the Forum des Halles from its other end to the north.. The lane continues via this last end and becomes the Rue Baltard [], closed to car traffic since the closure of the old halls of Paris, then the Rue Montorgueil, Rue des Petits-Carreaux [], Rue Poissonnière [], Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière to end at the ...
The 9th arrondissement of Paris (IX e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le neuvième ( [nœvjɛm] ; "ninth"). The arrondissement, called Opéra, is located on the right bank of the River Seine .
Montparnasse cemetery. Montparnasse (French: [mɔ̃paʁnas] ⓘ) is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.