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The 8th arrondissement of Paris (VIII e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, the arrondissement is colloquially referred to as le huitième (lit. ' the eighth '). The arrondissement, called Élysée, is situated on the right bank of the River Seine and centered on the Avenue des ...
Of the 2,498 persons guillotined in Paris during the Revolution, 1,119 were executed on the Place de la Concorde, 73 on the Place de la Bastille and 1,306 on the Place de la Nation. Besides Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, others executed on the same site included Charlotte Corday and Madame du Barry .
The Rue Saint-Lazare (French pronunciation: [ʁy sɛ̃ lazaʁ]) is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris, France.It starts at 9 Rue Bourdaloue and 1 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and ends at the Place Gabriel-Péri and the Rue de Rome.
Rue Saint-Florentin. The Rue Saint-Florentin is a thoroughfare in the 1st and 8th arrondissement of Paris.The street took its name from the Duc de la Vrillière, Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin, minister and secretary of state, who had his private mansion built there.
The Place de Dublin is a square in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was named after Dublin, the capital of Ireland. [1] The intersection is depicted in Gustave Caillebotte's painting Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877). [2] Place de Dublin, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877
The Avenue de Wagram is a street in the 8th and 17th arrondissements of Paris, extending from the Place de Wagram to the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly Place de l'Étoile, and the site of the Arc de Triomphe). It is 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) long and 36 metres (118 ft) wide, and is divided into two sections by the Place des Ternes.
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La Poste - main post office for the 8th arrondissement 54–56 Corporate headquarters of Sanofi S.A. [4] Former office of Alcatel-Lucent S.A. [5] 55 Pépinière La Boétie [6] Former headquarters of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), 2002 to 2011. [7] 57 Wildenstein Institute: Built in 1776 by architect Charles De Wailly for himself.