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A86 autoroute
A86 (sometimes called "Paris super-périphérique") is the second ring road around Paris, France.
Abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Académie Française
The Académie Française, also known as the French Academy, is the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language.
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Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ("Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France.
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Academic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings.
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Accor Arena
Accor Arena (originally known as the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy), also known as Paris-Bercy, is an indoor sports arena and concert hall located in the neighbourhood of Bercy, on the Boulevard de Bercy, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
Administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.
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Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads.
Adolphe Willette
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 in Châlons-sur-Marne – 4 February 1926 in Paris) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Air France
Air France (legally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.
Air pollution
Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (the Base in the Arabian Peninsula or تنظيمقاعدة الجهاد في جزيرة العرب, Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, "Organization of Jihad's Base in the Arabian Peninsula"), abbreviated as AQAP, also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (جماعة أنصار الشريعة, Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah, "Group of the Helpers of the Sharia"), is a Sunni Islamist insurgent extremist group, which is part of the al-Qaeda network and primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
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Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse (born 13 September 1956) is a French-born Monégasque chef.
Alain Passard
Alain Passard (born 4 August 1956 at La Guerche-de-Bretagne, France) is a French chef and owner of the three Michelin star restaurant L'Arpège in Paris.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas nocat, was a French novelist and playwright.
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algerian War
The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence)الثورة الجزائرية al-Thawra al-Jaza'iriyah; Guerre d'Algérie (and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.
Algiers
Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.
Alphonse Mucha
Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist.
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France.
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American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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American Hospital of Paris
The American Hospital of Paris (Hôpital américain de Paris), founded in 1906, is a private, not-for-profit, community hospital certified under the French healthcare system.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Amman
Amman (ʿAmmān) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center.
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Amphitheatre
An amphitheatre (British English) or amphitheater (American English; both) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands. Paris and Amsterdam are capitals in Europe.
Anaïs Nin
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics.
André Le Nôtre
André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Paris and André Malraux are Companions of the Liberation.
André-Jacques Garnerin
André-Jacques Garnerin (31 January 176918 August 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute.
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Anne Hidalgo
Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu (born 19 June 1959) is a Spanish-French politician who has been the Mayor of Paris since 2014, the first woman to hold the office.
Antoine Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher.
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Antoine Coysevox
Charles Antoine Coysevox (or; 29 September 164010 October 1720), was a French sculptor in the Baroque and Louis XIV style, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts.
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Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
Argenteuil
Argenteuil is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. Paris and Argenteuil are cities in Île-de-France and cities in France.
Aristide Maillol
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.
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Army Museum (Paris)
The Musée de l'Armée ("Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
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Arrondissements of Paris
The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux, administrative districts, referred to as arrondissements.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
Arte
Arte (Association relative à la télévision européenne (Association relating to European television), sometimes stylised in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture.
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Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri (16 May 1906 in Caracas – 26 February 2001) was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer, and politician.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Paris and Athens are capitals in Europe.
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ATP Tour
The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix Circuit and WCT Circuit.
Auguste and Louis Lumière
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers.
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Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.
Aulnay-sous-Bois
Aulnay-sous-Bois is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.
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Avenue Montaigne
Avenue Montaigne is a street in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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École normale supérieure (Paris)
The – PSL (also known as ENS,, Ulm or ENS Paris) is a grande école in Paris, France.
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Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter.
Élysée Palace
The Élysée Palace (Palais de l'Élysée) is the official residence of the President of the French Republic in Paris.
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
Étienne-Jules Marey
Étienne-Jules Marey (5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904, Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.
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Évry, Essonne
Évry is a former commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, prefecture of the department of Essonne.
Île aux Cygnes
Île aux Cygnes (Isle of the Swans) is a small artificial island on the river Seine in Paris, France, in the 15th arrondissement.
Île de la Cité
Île de la Cité (English: City Island) is an island in the river Seine in the center of Paris.
Île Saint-Louis
Île Saint-Louis, in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located).
Île-de-France
The Île-de-France is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023.
Île-de-France Mobilités
Île-de-France Mobilités is the governmental authority (EPA) that controls and coordinates the different companies operating the Paris-area public transport network and the rest of the Île-de-France region.
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Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine
Bagneux is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
Bal-musette
Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s.
Ballets Russes
The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.
Baroque music
Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
Basilica of Saint-Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis (Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. Paris and Bastille Day are culture of France.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beauvais–Tillé Airport
Beauvais–Tillé Airport (Aéroport de Beauvais-Tillé), branded as Paris-Beauvais Airport, is an international airport near the city of Beauvais in the commune of Tillé in France.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
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Belle Époque
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Belleville, Paris
Belleville is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements.
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Bellows
A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population. Paris and Berlin are capitals in Europe.
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Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
Bertrand Delanoë
Bertrand Delanoë (born 30 May 1950) is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014.
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BFM TV
BFM TV (stylized as BFMTV) is a French news broadcast television and radio network, wholly owned by Altice Média.
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Bièvre (river)
The Bièvre is a long river of the Île-de-France région that flows into the Seine (left bank) in Paris.
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal
The Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (Library of the Arsenal, founded 1757) in Paris has been part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 1934.
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Bibliothèque Mazarine
The, or Mazarin Library, is located within the Palais de l'institut de France, or the Palace of the Institute of France (previously the Collège des Quatre-Nations of the University of Paris), at 23 quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement, on the Left Bank of the Seine facing the Pont des Arts and the Louvre.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.
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Bicêtre Hospital
The Bicêtre Hospital is located in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Bicycle-sharing system
A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.
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Biens nationaux
The biens nationaux were properties confiscated during the French Revolution from the Catholic Church, the monarchy, émigrés, and suspected counter-revolutionaries for "the good of the nation".
Bistro
A bistro or bistrot, in its original Parisian form, is a small restaurant serving moderately priced, simple meals in a modest setting.
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Bobigny
Bobigny is a commune, or town, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France, France. Paris and Bobigny are prefectures in France.
Bois de Boulogne
The Bois de Boulogne ("Boulogne woodland") is a large public park that is the western half of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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Bois de Vincennes
The Bois de Vincennes, located on the eastern edge of Paris, France, is the largest public park in the city.
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Boris Vian
Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels.
Boulevard des Italiens
The boulevard des Italiens is a boulevard in Paris.
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Boulevard Périphérique
The Boulevard Périphérique, often called the Périph, is a limited-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France.
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Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt (often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine) is a wealthy and prestigious commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the centre of Paris. Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt are cities in Île-de-France and cities in France.
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Bourbon Restoration in France
The Second Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of the First French Empire in 1815.
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Brasserie
In France, Flanders, and the Francophone world, a brasserie is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville (Ntamo, Ntambo, Kintamo, Kintambo, Tandala, Mavula; Teke: M'fa, Mfaa, Mfa, MfoaRoman Adrian Cybriwsky, Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2013, p. 60) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic).
Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
Bureau International des Expositions
The Bureau international des expositions (BIE; English: International Bureau of Expositions) is an intergovernmental organization created to supervise international exhibitions (also known as expos, global expos or world expos) falling under the jurisdiction of the Convention Relating to International Exhibitions.
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Business incubator
A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services, starting with management training and office space, and ending with venture capital financing.
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C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is a group of 96 cities around the world that represents one twelfth of the world's population and one quarter of the global economy.
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Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
Cabrette
The cabrette (French: literally "little goat", alternately musette) is a type of bagpipe which appeared in Auvergne, France in the 19th century, and rapidly spread to Haute-Auvergne and Aubrac.
Café de Flore
The Café de Flore is one of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris, celebrated for its famous clientele, which in the past included high-profile writers and philosophers.
Café de la Rotonde
The Café de la Rotonde is a famous café in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France at 105 Boulevard du Montparnasse, known for its artistic milieu and good food.
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Café Procope
The Café Procope in the Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie is a café in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
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Calais
Calais (traditionally) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Paris and Calais are cities in France.
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Camille Claudel
Camille Rosalie Claudel (8 December 1864 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble.
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
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Can-can
The can-can (also spelled cancan as in the original French /kɑ̃kɑ̃/) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music-hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day.
Canal de l'Ourcq
The Canal de l'Ourcq is a long canal in the Île-de-France region (greater Paris) with 10 locks.
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Canal Saint-Denis
The Canal Saint-Denis is a canal in Paris, France that is in length.
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Canal Saint-Martin
The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.6 km (2.86 mi) long canal in Paris, connecting the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine.
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Canal+ (French TV channel)
Canal+ (meaning "Channel Plus"), also spelt Canal Plus and sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal, is a French premium television channel owned by the Groupe Canal+.
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church.
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Carmen
Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.
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Carrousel du Louvre
The Carrousel du Louvre is an underground shopping mall in Paris, France, managed by Unibail-Rodamco.
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Cartier (jeweler)
Cartier International SNC, or simply Cartier, is a French luxury-goods conglomerate that designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery, leather goods, watches, sunglasses and eyeglasses.
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Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris (Catacombes de Paris) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Catholic League (French)
The Catholic League of France (Ligue catholique), sometimes referred to by contemporary (and modern) Catholics as the Holy League (La Sainte Ligue), was a major participant in the French Wars of Religion.
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Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
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Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.
Champs-Élysées
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located.
Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France
Every year between 1975 and 2023, the final stage of the Tour de France has concluded on the Champs-Élysées, an emblematic street of the city of Paris.
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Chanel
Chanel is a luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris.
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Chanson
A chanson (chanson française) is generally any lyric-driven French song.
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
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Charles de Gaulle Airport
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle) — also known as Roissy Airport (Aéroport de Roissy) or simply Paris CDG — is the main international airport serving Paris, the capital of France.
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Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer.
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault (12 January 162816 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Christ the Redeemer (statue)
Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor, standard) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
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Christian Lacroix
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (born 16 May 1951) is a French fashion designer.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Cimetière parisien de Pantin
The Cimetière parisien de Pantin (sometimes known as cimetière parisien de Pantin-Bobigny) is one of the three Parisien cemeteries extra muros, located in the commune of Pantin which is in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France.
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Cinema of France
The cinema of France comprises the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad.
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Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie ("City of Science and Industry", abbreviated la CSI) or simply CSI is the biggest science museum in Europe.
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City walls of Paris
The city walls of Paris (French: enceintes de Paris or murs de Paris) refers to the city walls that surrounded Paris, France, as it grew from ancient times until the 20th century, built primarily to defend the city but also for administrative reasons.
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Claude Debussy
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Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.
Claude Luter
Claude Luter (23 July 1923 – 6 October 2006) was a jazz clarinetist who doubled on soprano saxophone.
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
Claude Zidi
Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French film director and screenwriter noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies.
Closed list
Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected.
Clovis I
Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
Coat of arms of Paris
The coat of arms of the city of Paris (French: Blason de Paris) shows a silver sailing ship on waves of the sea in a red field, with a chief showing the Royal emblem of gold-on-blue fleur-de-lis.
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Coffeehouse
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino.
Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters.
Collège des Quatre-Nations
The Collège des Quatre-Nations ("College of the Four Nations"), also known as the Collège Mazarin after its founder, was one of the colleges of the historic University of Paris.
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College of Sorbonne
The College of Sorbonne (Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 (confirmed in 1257) by Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), after whom it was named.
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Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Paris and Cologne are catholic pilgrimage sites.
Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theatres in France.
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Comédie-Italienne
Comédie-Italienne or Théâtre-Italien are French names which have been used to refer to Italian-language theatre and opera when performed in France.
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Commerce
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services on a substantial scale and at the right time, place, quantity, quality and price through various channels from the original producers to the final consumers within local, regional, national or international economies.
Communes of France
The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.
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Commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.
Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité
The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (Republican Security Corps), abbreviated CRS, are the general reserve of the French National Police.
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Conseil d'État
In France, the Conseil d'État (Council of State) is a governmental body that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice, which is one of the two branches of the French judiciary system.
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris, also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795.
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Constitutional Council (France)
The Constitutional Council (Conseil constitutionnel) is the highest constitutional authority in France.
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Contemporary art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, and it generally refers to art produced from the 1970s onwards.
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Controlled-access highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area. Paris and Copenhagen are capitals in Europe.
Corbeil-Essonnes
Corbeil-Essonnes on the River Seine is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
Council of Paris
The Council of Paris (French: Conseil de Paris) is the deliberative body responsible for governing Paris, the capital of France.
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Count of Paris
Count of Paris was a title for the local magnate of the district around Paris in Carolingian times.
Coup of 18 Brumaire
The coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France.
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Courbevoie
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine Department of the Île-de-France region of France. Paris and Courbevoie are cities in Île-de-France.
Courrier International
Courrier International is a Paris-based French weekly newspaper which translates and publishes excerpts of articles from over 900 international newspapers.
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Court of Cassation (France)
The Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation) is the supreme court for civil and criminal cases in France.
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Crazy Horse (cabaret)
Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse de Paris is a Parisian cabaret known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers and for the diverse range of magic and variety 'turns' between each nude show and the next.
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Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
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Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
Curie Institute (Paris)
Centre of protontherapy Institut Curie is a medical, biological and biophysical research centre in France.
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Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.
Dakar
Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.
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Dalida
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (داليدا), was a French singer and actress, born in Egypt to Italian parents.
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Deindustrialization
Deindustrialization is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially of heavy industry or manufacturing industry.
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
Denis of Paris
Denis of France was a 3rd-century Christian martyr and saint.
Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.
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Dior
Christian Dior SE, commonly known as Dior (stylized DIOR), is a French multinational luxury fashion house controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH.
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District heating
District heating (also known as heat networks) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating.
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Django Reinhardt
Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django, was a Belgian Manouche or Sinti jazz guitarist and composer.
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Dominique Perrault
Dominique Perrault (born 9 April 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French architect and urban planner.
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Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker.
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Duke of the Franks
The title Duke (and Prince) of the Franks (Latin: dux (et princeps) Francorum) has been used for three different offices, always with "duke" implying military command and "prince" implying something approaching sovereign or regalian rights.
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Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports.
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Effects of climate change
Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
Encyclopédie
Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
Enghien-les-Bains
Enghien-les-Bains is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, France.
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English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Erik Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.
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ESCP Business School
ESCP Business School (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris; Paris Higher School of Commerce) is a French business school and grande école founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw.
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ESSEC Business School
The École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, more commonly known as ESSEC Business School or simply ESSEC, is a business school and g''rande école'' based in France.
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Essonne
Essonne is a department in the southern part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Paris and Essonne are departments of Île-de-France.
Ethnonym
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization.
Eugène Belgrand
Eugène Belgrand (23 April 1810 – 8 April 1878) was a French engineer who made significant contributions to the modernization of the Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris.
Eugène Grasset
Eugène Samuel Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque.
Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
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EuroBasket 1951
The 1951 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1951, was the seventh FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).
EuroBasket 1999
The 1999 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1999, was the 31st FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 2000 Olympic Tournament, giving a berth to the top five (or six, depending on Serbia reaching one of the top five places) teams in the final standings.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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European Heritage Days
European Heritage Days (EHD) is a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission involving all 50 signatory states of the European Cultural Convention under the motto, Europe: a common heritage. Paris and European Heritage Days are culture of Europe.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
European Union Institute for Security Studies
The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is a Paris-based agency of the European Union (EU) within the realm of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
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Eurostar
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Eurozone
The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 20 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies.
Exposition Universelle (1867)
The italic of 1867, better known in English as the 1867 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 1 April to 3 November 1867.
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Exposition Universelle (1889)
The italic of 1889, better known in English as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889.
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Exposition Universelle (1900)
The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.
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Fashion capital
A fashion capital is a city with major influence on the international fashion scene, from history, heritage, designers, trends, and styles, to manufacturing innovation and retailing of fashion products, including events such as fashion weeks, fashion council awards, and trade fairs that together, generate significant economic output.
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: Librairie Arthème Fayard) is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857.
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Fête de la Musique
The Fête de la Musique, also known in English as Music Day, Make Music Day, or World Music Day, is an annual music celebration that takes place on 21 June.
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FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
Finance
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.
Financial services
Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
First Battle of the Marne
The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne (French: miracle de la Marne) was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914.
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Flag carrier
A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations.
Flypast
A flypast is a ceremonial or honorific flight by an aircraft or group of aircraft.
Folies Bergère
The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall in Paris, France.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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Fortune Global 500
The Fortune Global 500, also known as Global 500, is an annual ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue.
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François Couperin
François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.
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François Girardon
François Girardon (17 March 1628 – 1 September 1715) was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
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François Mauriac
François Charles Mauriac (Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).
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François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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France 2
France 2 is a French public national television channel.
France 24
France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.
France 3
France 3 is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info.
France 4
France 4 is a French free-to-air television channel owned by France Télévisions, focused on children's programming.
France 5
France 5 is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group.
France national football team
The France national football team (Équipe de France de football) represents France in men's international football.
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France national rugby union team
The France national rugby union team (Équipe de France de rugby à XV) represents the French Rugby Federation (FFR; Fédération française de rugby) in men's international rugby union matches.
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Francien language
Francien is a 19th-century term in linguistics that was applied to the French dialect that was spoken in the Île-de-France region (with Paris at its centre) before the establishment of the French language as a standard language.
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Francilienne
The Francilienne is a partially completed ring road in Île-de-France (the ''région'' that includes Paris), France, lying outside the A86.
Francis I of France
Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.
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Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry (born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer.
Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (2 April 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter.
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Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
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French Armed Forces
The French Armed Forces (Forces armées françaises) are the military forces of France.
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French art
French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.
French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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French Fifth Republic
The Fifth Republic (Cinquième République) is France's current republican system of government.
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French hip hop
French hip hop or French rap (rap français), is the hip hop music style developed in French-speaking countries.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
French Open
The French Open (Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year.
French Parliament
The French Parliament (Parlement français) is the bicameral legislature of the French Fifth Republic, consisting of the upper house, the Senate (Sénat), and the lower house, the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale).
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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French Wars of Religion
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598.
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Gare d'Austerlitz
Gare d'Austerlitz (English: Austerlitz station), officially Paris Austerlitz, is one of the seven large Paris railway terminal stations.
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Gare de l'Est
The Gare de l'Est (English: "Station of the East" or "East station"), officially Paris Est, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France.
Gare de Lyon
The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon, is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France.
Gare de Paris Bercy
Gare de Paris Bercy, officially Gare de Paris Bercy Bourgogne – Pays d'Auvergne, is one of the seven mainline railway station terminals in Paris.
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Gare du Nord
The Gare du Nord (North Station), officially Paris Nord, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France.
Gare Montparnasse
Gare Montparnasse (Montparnasse station), officially Paris Montparnasse, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements.
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Gare Saint-Lazare
The Gare Saint-Lazare, officially Paris Saint Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris, France.
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Gasparino Barzizza
Gasparino Barzizza (in French, Gasparin de Bergame; in Latin, Gasparinus Barzizius Bergomensis or Pergamensis) (c. 1360 – 1431) was an Italian grammarian and teacher noted for introducing a new style of epistolary Latin inspired by the works of Cicero.
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Gastronomy
Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating.
Gauls
The Gauls (Galli; Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD).
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General aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.
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Geneva
Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.
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Gentrification
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.
Georges de Feure
Georges de Feure (real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters, 6 September 1868 – 26 November 1943) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles.
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Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974.
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Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (27 March 180911 January 1891), was a French official who served as prefect of Seine (1853–1870), chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive urban renewal programme of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris commonly referred to as Haussmann's renovation of Paris.
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Givenchy
Givenchy is a French luxury fashion and perfume house.
Goutte d'Or
The Goutte d'Or is a neighbourhood in Paris, located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.
Government of France
The Government of France (French: Gouvernement français), officially the Government of the French Republic, exercises executive power in France.
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Grand Palais
The (Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as the, is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France.
Grand Paris
Sarkozy's renovation of Paris, also known as the Grand Paris, is a vast public works programme commissioned by the former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy between 2016 and 2030.
Grand Rex
Le Grand Rex is a cinema and concert venue in Paris, France.
Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year.
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Grande Arche
La Grande Arche de la Défense ("The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité ("Fraternity"), is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France.
Grande école
A grande école is a specialized top-level educational institution in France and some other previous French colonies such as Morocco or Tunisia.
Grands établissements
The are French public institutions under ministerial charter within the administrative category referred to as (EPCSP).
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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.
Greater Paris University Hospitals
Greater Paris University Hospitals (Assistance publique–hôpitaux de Paris, AP-HP) is the university hospital trust operating in Paris and its surroundings.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guillotine
A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
Guimet Museum
The Guimet Museum (full name in Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; Musée Guimet) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Gulli
Gulli (stylised as gulli) is a French free-to-air television channel focused on kids' programming for those aged 3 to 14.
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Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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Gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910–1953), in conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), as expressed by their group the Quintette du Hot Club de France.
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
Haussmann's renovation of Paris
Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public works programme commissioned by French Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870.
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Haute couture
Haute couture (French for 'high sewing', 'high dressmaking') is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design.
Haute cuisine
Haute cuisine or grande cuisine is a style of cooking characterised by meticulous preparation, elaborate presentation, and the use of high quality ingredients.
Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine is a department in the Île-de-France region of France. Paris and Hauts-de-Seine are departments of Île-de-France.
Hôpital Cochin
The Hôpital Cochin is a hospital of public assistance in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques Paris 14e.
Hôpital de la Charité
Hôpital de la Charité ("Charity Hospital") was a hospital in Paris founded by the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in the 17th century.
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Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou
The Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou (HEGP) (Georges Pompidou European Hospital) is a French hospital located in Paris.
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Hôpital Saint-Louis
Hôpital Saint-Louis is a hospital in Paris, France.
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Hôtel de Ville, Paris
The (City Hall) is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the in the 4th arrondissement.
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Hôtel Matignon
The Hôtel Matignon (Hôtel de Matignon) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of France.
Hôtel-Dieu, Paris
The Hôtel-Dieu ("God Shelter") is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame.
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HEC Paris
HEC Paris (lit) is a business school and grande école located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France.
Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times.
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Henri Labrouste
Pierre-François-Henri Labrouste (11 May 1801 – 24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous school of architecture.
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) at the Guggenheim was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.
Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 – 13 February 2008) was a French Caribbean comedian, singer and cabaret artist.
Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867–1936) was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter and author.
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Henry IV of France
Henry IV (Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.
Henry V of England
Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422.
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Hermès
Hermès International S.A. (er-MEZ) is a French luxury design house established on 15 June 1837.
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High-speed rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
Highest averages method
In mathematics, economics, and social choice theory, the highest averages or divisor methods, sometimes called divide-and-round, are a family of apportionment algorithms that aim to fairly divide a legislature between several groups, such as political parties or states.
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Ho Chi Minh
italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.
Holy Innocents' Cemetery
The Holy Innocents' Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Saints-Innocents or Cimetière des Innocents) is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (more commonly,; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac: Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.
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Hot air balloon
A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air.
House of Capet
The House of Capet (Maison capétienne) ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328.
Hugh Capet
Hugh Capet (Hugues Capet; 940 – 24 October 996) was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996.
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages.
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Hurdy-gurdy
The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
Impressionism in music
Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone‐picture".
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Indirect election
An indirect election or hierarchical voting, is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office (direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties.
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INSEAD
INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires", is a non-profit graduate business school that maintains campuses in France (Europe Campus), Singapore (Asia Campus), and the United Arab Emirates (Middle East Campus).
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Institut français d'opinion publique
The Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP; French Institute of Public Opinion) is an international polling and market research firm, whose motto is "Connection creates value".
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Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), abbreviated INSEE or Insee, is the national statistics bureau of France.
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Intercity Express
Intercity Express (commonly known as ICE) is a high-speed rail system in Germany.
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International Bureau of Weights and Measures
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM) is an intergovernmental organisation, through which its 59 member-states act on measurement standards in areas including chemistry, ionising radiation, physical metrology, as well as the International System of Units (SI) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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International Chamber of Commerce
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC; French: Chambre de commerce internationale) is the largest, most representative business organization in the world.
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International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the global energy sector.
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International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts
The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes) was a specialized exhibition held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925.
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International Federation for Human Rights
The International Federation for Human Rights (Fédération internationale pour les droits humains; FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine.
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Ivry-sur-Seine
Ivry-sur-Seine is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France.
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007.
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue (13 June 1894 – 12 September 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.
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Jakarta
Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Jardin des plantes
The Jardin des Plantes (French for "Garden of the Plants"), also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France.
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Jardin du Luxembourg
The Jardin du Luxembourg, known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.
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Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier (born 24 June 1952) is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer.
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Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.
Jean Sylvain Bailly
Jean Sylvain Bailly (15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was a French composer and music theorist.
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Jericho
Jericho (Arīḥā,; Yərīḥō) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine; it is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate of Palestine.
Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (translit; Jehanne Darc; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Johann Heynlin
Johann Heynlin, variously spelled Heynlein, Henelyn, Henlin, Hélin, Hemlin, Hegelin, Steinlin; and translated as Jean à Lapide, Jean La Pierre (Lapierre, de la Pierre), Johannes Lapideus, Johannes Lapidanus, Johannes de Lapide (– 12 March 1496) was a German-born scholar, humanist and theologian, who introduced the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470.
Josephine Baker
Freda Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress.
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, and dancer.
Jules Chéret
Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art.
Jules Massenet
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
July Column
The July Column (Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830.
July Revolution
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or Trois Glorieuses ("Three Glorious "), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789.
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld (10 September 193319 February 2019) was a German fashion designer.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kyoto
Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.
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L'Ambroisie
L'Ambroisie is a traditional French restaurant in Paris, France founded by Bernard Pacaud and now run by his son Mathieu that has maintained three Michelin stars for more than thirty years.
L'Équipe
L'Équipe (French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury.
L'Oréal
L'Oréal S.A. is a French multinational personal care company headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, with a registered office in Paris.
La Chaîne parlementaire
La Chaîne parlementaire (French for The Parliamentary Channel) is a French television network created, along with its sister station Public Sénat, by law on 30 December 1999.
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La Croix (newspaper)
La Croix (English: 'The Cross') is a daily French general-interest Catholic newspaper.
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La Défense
La Défense is the major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, west of the city limits.
La Poste (France)
La Poste is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France, the five French overseas departments and regions and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
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La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
La Tour d'Argent
La Tour d'Argent (English: The Silver Tower) is a historic restaurant in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin Quarter, Paris
The Latin Quarter of Paris (Quartier latin) is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris.
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Léo Delibes
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–1980).
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Le Canard enchaîné
Le Canard enchaîné (English: "The Chained Duck" or "The Chained Paper", as canard is French slang meaning "newspaper") is a satirical weekly newspaper in France.
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Le Dôme Café
Le Dôme Café or Café du Dôme is a restaurant in Montparnasse, Paris that first opened in.
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.
Le Grand Véfour
Le Grand Véfour, the first grand restaurant in Paris, France, was opened in the arcades of the Palais-Royal in 1784 by Antoine Aubertot, as the Café de Chartres, and was purchased in 1820 by Jean Véfour, who was able to retire within three years, selling the restaurant to Jean Boissier.
Le Lido
Le Lido is a musical theatre venue located on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.
Le Monde
Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.
Le Nouvel Obs
Le Nouvel Obs, previously known as L'Obs (2014–2024), Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), France-Observateur (1954–1964), L'Observateur aujourd'hui (1953–1954), and L'Observateur politique, économique et littéraire (1950–1953), is a weekly French news magazine.
Le Parisien
Le Parisien is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and its suburbs.
Le Tabou
Le Tabou was a cellar club located at 33 Rue Dauphine in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
Les Deux Magots
italic is a famous café and restaurant situated at 6, Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris' 6th arrondissement, France.
Les Echos (France)
Les Echos is the first daily French financial newspaper, founded in 1908 by brothers Robert and Émile Servan-Schreiber.
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Les Halles
Les Halles ('The Halls') was Paris' central fresh food market.
Les Invalides
The Hôtel des Invalides ("house of invalids"), commonly called italic, is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and an Old Soldiers' retirement home, the building's original purpose.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
Les Mureaux
Les Mureaux is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Levallois-Perret
Levallois-Perret is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France.
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Libération
(liberation), popularly known as Libé, is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X. A bare-breasted woman of the people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty leads a varied group of people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding aloft the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other.
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Licentiate (degree)
A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. Paris and Lisbon are capitals in Europe.
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List of busiest airports by international passenger traffic
The following is a list of the world's busiest airports by international passenger traffic.
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List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits
This is a list of the largest cities in the European Union according to the population within their city boundary.
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List of cities proper by population density
This is a list of cities worldwide by population density.
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List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League finals
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955.
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List of metropolitan areas in Europe
This list ranks metropolitan areas in Europe by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.
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List of presidents of the Senate of France
This article lists the presidents of the Senate of France (Président du Sénat français; official translation: Speaker of the Senate) and assimilated chambers.
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List of the busiest airports in Europe
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Europe, ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers.
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List of urban areas in the European Union
This is a list of urban areas in the European Union with over 500,000 inhabitants as of 2022.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in. Paris and London are capitals in Europe.
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Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.
Louis Philippe I
Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.
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Louis VII of France
Louis VII (1120 – 18 September 1180), called the Younger or the Young (le Jeune) to differentiate him from his father Louis VI, was King of France from 1137 to 1180.
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Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly known as Louis Vuitton, is a French luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton.
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
Louvre
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.
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Louvre Pyramid
The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei.
Low-cost carrier
A low-cost carrier (LCC) or low-cost airline, also called no-frills, budget, or discount carrier or airline, is an airline that is operated with an emphasis on minimizing operating costs.
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Luc Besson
Luc Paul Maurice Besson (born 18 March 1959) is a French filmmaker.
Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
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Lutetia
Lutetia, (Lutèce) also known as Lutecia and Lutetia Parisiorum, was a Gallo–Roman town and the predecessor of modern-day Paris.
Luxembourg Palace
The Luxembourg Palace (Palais du Luxembourg) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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M6 (TV channel)
M6, also known as italic, is the most profitable private national French television channel and the third most watched television network in the French-speaking world.
Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
Maison de Balzac
The Maison de Balzac (Balzac's House) is a writer's house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850).
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Maison de Victor Hugo
Maison de Victor Hugo is a writer's house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848.
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Maison dorée (Paris)
The Maison Dorée (the "Gilded House") was a famous restaurant located at 20 Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
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Majority
A majority is more than half of a total.
Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.
Manouche
The Manouches are a subgroup of Roma who have lived in France since at least the eighteenth century.
Mantes-la-Jolie
Mantes-la-Jolie (often informally called Mantes) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France.
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist.
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.
Marie de' Medici
Marie de' Medici (Marie de Médicis; Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.
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Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer.
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Maurice de Sully
Maurice de Sully (died 11 September 1196) was Bishop of Paris from 1160 until his retirement in 1196.
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
Maxim's
Maxim's is a restaurant in Paris, France, located at No.
May 68
Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories.
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Medieval art
The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, with over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
Megacity
A megacity is a very large city, typically with a population of more than 10 million people.
Merovingian dynasty
The Merovingian dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751.
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Metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which are sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.
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Metropolitans 92
Metropolitans 92 is a French professional basketball club that is based in Levallois-Perret, in the Paris metropolitan area.
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Meuse
The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Mezz Mezzrow
Milton Mesirow (November 9, 1899 – August 5, 1972), better known as Mezz Mezzrow, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois.
Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900.
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Mines of Paris
The mines of Paris (carrières de Paris – "quarries of Paris") comprise a number of abandoned, subterranean mines under Paris, France, connected together by galleries.
Minister of the Interior (France)
Minister of the Interior (Ministre de l'Intérieur) is a prominent position in the Government of France.
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Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) is the ministry of the Government of France that handles France's foreign relations.
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Ministry of Culture (France)
The Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques. Paris and ministry of Culture (France) are culture of France.
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Mistinguett
Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois (5 April 1873 – 5 January 1956), known professionally as Mistinguett, was a French actress and singer.
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa (Gioconda or Monna Lisa; Joconde) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Montevideo
Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.
Montgolfier brothers
The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799) – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the commune Annonay in Ardèche, France.
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Montmartre
Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement.
Montmartre Cemetery
The Cemetery of Montmartre (Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. Paris and Moscow are capitals in Europe.
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Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union., the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, had 294 stations and of route length, excluding light rail Monorail, making it the 10th-longest in the world and the longest outside East Asia.
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche.
Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city.
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Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (in full the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, and Henri Matisse.
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Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay (Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine.
Musée de Cluny
The Musée de Cluny, officially Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge, is a museum of medieval art in Paris.
Musée de l'Orangerie
The Musée de l'Orangerie (Orangery Museum) is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
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Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (Jacques Chirac Museum of Branly Quay), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
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Musée Marmottan Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet (Marmottan Museum of Monet) is an art museum in Paris, France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet.
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Musée National d'Art Moderne
The Musée National d'Art Moderne ("National Museum of Modern Art") is the national museum for modern art of France.
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Musée national Eugène Delacroix
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix (National Eugène Delacroix Museum), also known as the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg, Paris, France.
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Musée Picasso
The Musée Picasso (Picasso Museum) is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé (Salé Hall) in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, France, dedicated to the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).
Musée Rodin
The Musée Rodin (Rodin Museum) of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Nanterre
Nanterre is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris, France. Paris and Nanterre are cities in Île-de-France and prefectures in France.
Nantes
Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. Paris and Nantes are cities in France, Companions of the Liberation, Gallia Lugdunensis and prefectures in France.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.
National Assembly (France)
The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat).
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National Gendarmerie
The National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale) is one of two national law enforcement forces of France, along with the National Police.
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National Liberation Front (Algeria)
The National Liberation Front (translit; Front de libération nationale) commonly known by its French acronym FLN, is a nationalist political party in Algeria.
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National Museum of Natural History, France
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a grand établissement of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities.
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National Police (France)
The National Police (Police nationale), formerly known as the Sûreté nationale, is one of two national police forces of France, the other being the National Gendarmerie.
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Naturalism (literature)
Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.
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Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital
The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital is a French teaching hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
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Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine ('Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department just west of Paris in France.
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Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography.
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Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic.
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Nicolas Coustou
Nicolas Coustou (9 January 1658 – 1 May 1733) was a French sculptor and academic.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as the president of France and co-prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012.
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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NRJ 12
NRJ 12 is a French private commercial general-interest television channel belonging to the NRJ Group, created on 31 March 2005 on DTT.
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Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city.
Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (European Music Hall) (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon (Music Hall)) is one of France's six national theatres.
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Odo of France
Odo (Eudes; c. 857 – 1 January 898) was the elected King of West Francia from 888 to 898.
Old Irish
Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.
Olympia (Paris)
The Olympia (commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall) is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, equally distancing Madeleine church and Opéra Garnier, north of Vendôme square.
Opéra Bastille
The Opéra Bastille ("Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Open city
In war, an open city is a settlement which has announced it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of the imminent capture of the city to avoid destruction.
Oppidum
An oppidum (oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town.
Optile
Optile (Organisation Professionnelle des Transports d'Île-de-France, or Professional Transport Organisation of Île-de-France) is a public transport organisation, created in October 2000 from a merger between several private bus companies serving suburban Paris.
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Orchestre de Paris
The Orchestre de Paris is a French orchestra based in Paris.
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Organisation armée secrète
The Organisation armée secrète (OAS, "Secret Army Organisation") was a far-right French dissident paramilitary and terrorist organisation during the Algerian War.
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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, La Francophonie, sometimes also called International Organisation of italic in English) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers), or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
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Orly Airport
Paris Orly Airport (Aéroport de Paris-Orly) is one of two international airports serving Paris, France, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG).
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
Outline of France
The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide of France: France – country in Western Europe with several overseas regions and territories.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.
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Palais Bourbon
The Palais Bourbon is the meeting place of the National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French Parliament.
Palais de Justice, Paris
The Palais de Justice ('"Palace of Justice"), is a judicial center and courthouse in Paris, located on the Île de la Cité.
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Palais de la Cité
The Palais de la Cité, located on the Île de la Cité in the Seine River in the centre of Paris, is a major historic building that was the residence of the Kings of France from the sixth century until the 14th century, and has been the center of the French justice system ever since, thus often referred to as the Palais de Justice.
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Palais de Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
Palais Garnier
The italic (Garnier Palace), also known as italic (Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102.
Palais-Royal
The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
Panthéon
The Panthéon (from the Classical Greek word πάνθειον,, ' to all the gods') is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Pantin
Pantin is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.
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Paray-Vieille-Poste
Paray-Vieille-Poste is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
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Parc André-Citroën
Parc André-Citroën is a public park located on the left bank of the river Seine in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
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Parc de Bercy
The Parc de Bercy (English: Park of Bercy) is a public park located along the Rive Droite in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.
Parc de la Villette
The Parc de la Villette is the third-largest park in Paris, in area, located at the northeastern edge of the city in the 19th arrondissement.
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Parc des Buttes Chaumont
The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (English: Park of the Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, France, in the 19th arrondissement.
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Parc Montsouris
Parc Montsouris (English: Montsouris Park) is a public park situated in southern Paris, France.
Paris (mythology)
Paris (Πάρις), also known as Alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος, Aléxandros), is a mythological figure in the story of the Trojan War.
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Paris Basin
The Paris Basin (Bassin parisien) is one of the major geological regions of France.
Paris Carnival
The Paris Carnival (Carnaval de Paris) is an annual festival held in Paris, France.
Paris Club
Paris Club (Club de Paris) is a group of major creditor countries aiming to provide a sustainable way to tackle debt problems in debtor countries.
Paris Commune
The Paris Commune was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.
Paris Commune (1789–1795)
The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795.
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Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week (Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer and autumn/winter events held each year.
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Paris FC
Paris Football Club, commonly referred to as Paris FC or simply PFC, is a French professional football club based in Paris, that competes in the Ligue 2, the second tier of French football.
Paris Fire Brigade
The Paris Fire Brigade (Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris, BSPP) is a French Army unit which serves as the primary fire and rescue service for Paris, the city's inner suburbs and certain sites of national strategic importance.
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Paris Gun
The Paris Gun (Paris-Geschütz / Pariser Kanone) was the name given to a type of German long-range siege gun, several of which were used to bombard Paris during World War I. They were in service from March to August 1918.
Paris massacre of 1961
The Paris massacre of 1961 (also called the 17 October 1961 massacre in France) was the mass killing of Algerians who were living in Paris by the French National Police.
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Paris Masters
The Paris Masters (formerly known as the Paris Open, and currently called the Rolex Paris Masters for sponsorship reasons) is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Paris, France.
Paris Métro
The Paris Métro (Métro de Paris; short for Métropolitain), operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP), is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area, France.
Paris metropolitan area
The Paris metropolitan area (aire d'attraction de Paris) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Paris, France and its surrounding suburbs.
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Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)
The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
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Paris Police Prefecture
The Paris Police Prefecture (la préfecture de police de Paris), officially the Police Prefecture (la préfecture de police, abbreviated as "la PP"), is the unit of the French Ministry of the Interior that provides police, emergency services, and various administrative services to the population of the city of Paris and the surrounding three suburban départements of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne.
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Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain or simply PSG, is a professional football club based in Paris, France.
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Paris syndrome
is a cluster of psychiatric symptoms exhibited by some individuals when visiting Paris, that can be viewed as a severe form of culture shock.
Paris-Plages
Paris-Plages ("Paris Beaches"; until 2006 Paris-Plage in the singular) is a plan run by the office of the mayor of Paris that creates temporary artificial beaches each summer along the river Seine in the centre of Paris, and, since 2007, along the Bassin de la Villette in the northeast of Paris.
Paris–Le Bourget Airport
Paris–Le Bourget Airport (Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget) is an airport located within portions of the communes of Le Bourget, Bonneuil-en-France, Dugny and Gonesse, north-northeast of Paris, France.
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Parisii (Gaul)
The Parisii (Parisioi; Parísioi) were a Gallic tribe that dwelt on the banks of the river Seine during the Iron Age and the Roman era.
Passy Cemetery
Passy Cemetery (Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano (born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Patrick Ollier
Patrick Ollier (born 17 December 1944) is a French politician.
Patrouille de France
The ("French Acrobatic Patrol"), also known as the (PAF), is the precision aerobatics demonstration unit of the French Air and Space Force, officially commissioned in 1953.
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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century.
Paul Delouvrier
Paul Delouvrier (25 June 1914 – 16 January 1995) was a French administrator and economist.
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
Paul Gavarni
Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris.
Paul Landowski
Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 – 31 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor of Polish descent.
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; formerly, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at.
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Pellet fuel
Pellet fuels (or pellets) are a type of solid fuel made from compressed organic material.
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
Petit Palais
The (Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Philharmonie de Paris
The Philharmonie de Paris (Paris Philharmonic Hall) is a complex of concert halls in Paris, France.
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Philip II of France
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), byname Philip Augustus (Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ, Phnum Pénh) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (in full:; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath.
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Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (3 October 186723 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian.
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Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist.
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Pierre Gagnaire
Pierre Gagnaire (born 9 April 1950) is a French chef, and the head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris (in the 8th arrondissement).
Pierre Mignard
Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital (Hôpital universitaire de la Pitié-Salpêtrière) is a charitable hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
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Place Charles de Gaulle
The Place Charles de Gaulle, historically known as the Place de l'Étoile, is a large road junction in Paris, France, the meeting point of twelve straight avenues (hence its historic name, which translates as "Square of the Star") including the Champs-Élysées.
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Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération
The public square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris that is now the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville ("City Hall Square") was, before 1802, called the Place de Grève.
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Place de la Bastille
The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the Bastille and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution.
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Place de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France.
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Place Denfert-Rochereau
Place Denfert-Rochereau, previously known as Place d'Enfer, is a public square located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the Montparnasse district, at the intersection of the boulevards Raspail, Arago, and Saint-Jacques, and the avenues René Coty, Général Leclerc, and, as well as the streets Froidevaux, Victor-Considérant and de Grancey.
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Place des Victoires
The Place des Victoires (English: Victory Square, 'Square of Victories') is a circular square in central Paris, located a short distance northeast of the Palais-Royal and straddling the border between the 1st and the 2nd arrondissements.
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Place des Vosges
The Place des Vosges, originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France.
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Place Louis Lépine
The place Louis-Lépine is a square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris on the île de la Cité.
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Place Vendôme
The Place Vendôme, earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine.
Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast.
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Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
Pont Alexandre III
The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris.
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Pont de l'Alma
The Pont de l'Alma (Alma Bridge) is a road bridge in Paris, France, across the Seine.
Pont des Arts
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine.
Pont Neuf
The Pont Neuf ("New Bridge""Neuf" when used as a NOUN is a number (nine or 9). When describing a noun (adjective) it means new or unused. (http://translate.google.com/translate_t#fr|en|Neuf)-->) is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France.
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (Brazilian) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Poster
A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration.
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Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Paris and Prague are capitals in Europe.
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President of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces.
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Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.
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Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.
Proto-Celtic language
Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.
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Provinces of France
Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative units, until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789.
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Prussian Army
The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Quebec City
Quebec City (or; Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.
Quintette du Hot Club de France
The Quintette du Hot Club de France ("The Quintet of the Hot Club of France"), often abbreviated "QdHCdF" or "QHCF", was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli and active in one form or another until 1948.
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Rabat
Rabat (also,; ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. Paris and Rabat are 3rd-century BC establishments and populated places established in the 3rd century BC.
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Racing 92
Racing 92 is a French professional rugby union club based in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Paris' western inner suburbs that competes in Top 14.
Racing Club de France Football
Racing Club de France Football (also known as Racing Paris, RCF Paris, Matra Racing, Racing Club, or Racing) is a French association football club based in Colombes, a suburb of Paris.
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Radio France
Radio France is the French national public radio broadcaster.
Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio news network of France.
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Ramallah
Ramallah (help|God's Height) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, that serves as the de facto administrative capital of the State of Palestine.
RATP bus network
The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs.
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RATP Group
The RATP Group (Groupe RATP) is a French state-owned enterprise (EPIC) that operates public transport systems.
Réseau Express Régional
The Réseau Express Régional (Regional Express Network), commonly abbreviated RER, is a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system, similar to the S-Bahns of German-speaking countries, serving Paris and its suburbs.
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Red Star F.C.
Red Star Football Club, also known simply as Red Star, is a French football club founded in Paris in 1897, and is the fourth oldest French football club, after Standard AC of Paris, Le Havre AC and Girondins de Bordeaux.
Region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).
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Regions of France
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror or the Mountain Republic was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.
Renaissance music
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.
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RER A
RER A is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving the city and suburbs of Paris, France.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Rhône
The Rhône is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Rive Gauche
The Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris.
Riyadh
Riyadh (ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.
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Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads.
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Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer.
Rock en Seine
Rock en Seine is a three-day rock music festival, held at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, the Château de Saint-Cloud's park, west of Paris, inside the garden designed by André Le Nôtre.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Romantic music
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy. Paris and Rome are capitals in Europe and catholic pilgrimage sites.
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Rouen
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France. Paris and Rouen are cities in France, Gallia Lugdunensis and prefectures in France.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
RTÉ.ie
RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)'s online activities.
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Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Rungis International Market
The Rungis International Market (Marché International de Rungis) is the principal wholesale market of Paris and mainly deals in food and horticultural products.
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Sacré-Cœur, Paris
The Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre (English: Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, pronounced), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
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Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is a commune in Val-de-Marne, the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris.
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Saint-Ouen Cemetery
The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (Cimetière Parisien de Saint-Ouen) is located just north of Montmartre at Saint-Ouen, near Paris.
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Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (literally "Saint-Ouen on Seine") is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France, located from the centre of Paris.
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Sainte-Geneviève Library
Sainte-Geneviève Library (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève) is a university library of the Sorbonne-Nouvelle public liberal arts and humanities university, located at 10, place du Panthéon, across the square from the Panthéon, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
Sanaa
Sanaa (صَنْعَاء,, Yemeni Arabic:; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 Ṣnʿw), also spelled Sana'a and Sana, is the capital and largest city of Yemen and the capital of the Sanaa Governorate.
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Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas.
São Paulo
São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.
Scheldt
The Scheldt (Escaut; Schelde) is a river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.
School of Paris
The School of Paris (École de Paris) refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
Sciences Po
Sciences Po or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), is a private and public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of grande école and the legal status of.
Seine
The Seine is a river in northern France.
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Seine (department)
Seine is a former department of France, which encompassed Paris and its immediate suburbs.
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Seine-Saint-Denis
italic is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the italic region. Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis are departments of Île-de-France.
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Senate (France)
The Senate (Sénat) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France.
Senones
The Senones or Senonii (Gaulish: "the ancient ones") were an ancient Gallic tribe dwelling in the Seine basin, around present-day Sens, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
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Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director.
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Joseph Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
Siege of Paris (885–886)
The Siege of Paris of 885–886 was part of a Viking raid on the Seine, in the Kingdom of the West Franks.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Six Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
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SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (abbreviated as SNCF; "National Company of the French Railways") is France's national state-owned railway company.
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Société Générale
Société Générale S.A., colloquially known in English speaking countries as SocGen, is a French-based multinational financial services company founded in 1864, registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense.
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Sofia
Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. Paris and Sofia are capitals in Europe.
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Sorbonne (building)
The name Sorbonne (French: La Sorbonne) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions (see below).
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Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Université) is a public research university located in Paris, France.
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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
The St.
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Stade de France
Stade de France is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis.
Stade Français
Stade Français Paris (known commonly as Stade Français) is a French professional rugby union club based in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
Stade Français (association football)
Stade Français Football is a French association football team based in Paris and playing in suburb town of Vaucresson.
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Stade Pierre de Coubertin (Paris)
The Stade Pierre de Coubertin (French for Pierre de Coubertin Stadium) is an indoor arena that is located in Paris, France.
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Stade Roland Garros
Stade Roland Garros ("Roland Garros Stadium") is a complex of tennis courts, including stadiums, located in Paris that hosts the French Open.
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Stade Yves-du-Manoir
The Stade Yves-du-Manoir (officially Stade olympique Yves-du-Manoir, also known as the Stade olympique de Colombes, or simply Colombes to the locals) is a rugby, track, and association football stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City.
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Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist.
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Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic.
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Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille (Prise de la Bastille) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Sustainable transport
Sustainable transport refers to ways of transportation that are sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
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Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
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Tbilisi
Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people. Paris and Tbilisi are capitals in Europe.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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TF1
TF1 (standing for Télévision Française 1) is a French commercial television network owned by TF1 Group, controlled by the Bouygues conglomerate.
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TFX (TV channel)
TFX (formerly NT1) is a French free television network owned by Groupe TF1.
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TGV
The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse,, "high-speed train"; formerly TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated mainly by SNCF.
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Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse
The Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse is a venue situated at 26, rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the 14th arrondissement.
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Théâtre de la Ville
(meaning the City Theatre) is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris, the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet.
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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is an entertainment venue standing at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris.
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Théâtre Lyrique
The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien).
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa.
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The Fronde
The Fronde were a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (translation, originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Tino Rossi
Constantin "Tino" Rossi (29 April 1907 – 26 September 1983) was a French singer and film actor of Corsican origin.
Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.
Tour First
Tour First (previously known as Tour UAP between 1974 and 1998, and as Tour Axa between 1998 and 2007) is an office skyscraper in Courbevoie, in La Défense, the business district of the Paris metropolitan area.
Tour Montparnasse
Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a office skyscraper in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France.
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Tour Saint-Jacques
The Tour Saint-Jacques ('Saint James's Tower') is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the intersection of Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas Flamel.
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Tramways in Île-de-France
The Île-de-France tramways (Tramways d'Île-de-France) is a network of modern tram lines in the Île-de-France region of France.
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Transilien
Transilien is the brand name given to the commuter rail network serving Île-de-France, the region surrounding and including the city of Paris.
Transport express régional
Transport express régional (usually shortened to TER) is the brand name used by the SNCF, the French national railway company, to denote rail service run by the regional councils of France, specifically their organised transport authorities.
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Troubadour
A troubadour (trobador archaically: -->) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).
Trouvère
Trouvère, sometimes spelled trouveur, is the Northern French (langue d'oïl) form of the langue d'oc (Occitan) word trobador, the precursor of the modern French word troubadour.
Tuileries Garden
The Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Tuileries Palace
The Tuileries Palace (Palais des Tuileries) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the Seine, directly in front of the Louvre Palace.
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Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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Two-round system
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), also called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality (as originally termed in French), is a voting method used to elect a single winner.
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UEFA Euro 1984
The 1984 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in France from 12 to 27 June 1984.
UEFA Euro 2016
The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2016) or simply Euro 2016, was the 15th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA.
UEFA European Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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University of Paris
The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.
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Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.
Urban sociology
Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life.
Urban unit
In France, an urban unit is a statistical area defined by INSEE, the French national statistics office, for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas.
Val de Seine
The Val de Seine is one of the most important business districts of the Paris agglomeration.
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise ("Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. Paris and Val-d'Oise are departments of Île-de-France.
Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne ("Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Paris and Val-de-Marne are departments of Île-de-France.
Valérie Pécresse
Valérie Pécresse (born Roux, 14 July 1967) is the President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015.
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981.
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Vélib'
Vélib' Métropole is a large-scale public bicycle sharing system in Paris, France.
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Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
The Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup (from la rafle du Vel' d'Hiv', an abbreviation of la rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver) was a mass arrest of Jewish families by French police and gendarmes at the behest of the German authorities, that took place in Paris on 16–17 July 1942.
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Venus de Milo
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
W9 (TV channel)
W9 is a French television network available through digital terrestrial television TNT, satellite and ADSL.
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Paris and Warsaw are capitals in Europe.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Water Lilies (Monet series)
Water Lilies (Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926).
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
West Francia
In medieval historiography, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the year 843, from the Treaty of Verdun, to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.
Western canon
The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.
Western Roman Empire
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.
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Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Yerevan
Yerevan (Երևան; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.
Yvelines
Yvelines is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Paris and Yvelines are departments of Île-de-France.
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), referred to as Yves Saint Laurent or YSL, was a French fashion designer who, in 1962, founded his eponymous fashion label.
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Zeppelin
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.
Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 until his death in January 1976.
16th arrondissement of Paris
The 16th arrondissement of Paris (seizième arrondissement) is the westernmost of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France.
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17th-century French art
17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharacteristic of the Baroque as it was practiced in most of the rest of Europe during the same period.
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1900 Summer Olympics
The 1900 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900.
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1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France.
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1938 FIFA World Cup
The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the third edition of the World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams.
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1960 European Nations' Cup
The 1960 European Nations' Cup was the inaugural tournament of the UEFA European Championship, held every four years and organised by UEFA.
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1998 FIFA World Cup
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams.
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1st arrondissement of Paris
The 1st arrondissement of Paris (Ier arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.
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2000 UEFA Champions League final
The 2000 UEFA Champions League final was a football match that took place on 24 May 2000.
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2003 European heatwave
The 2003 European heat wave saw the hottest summer recorded in Europe since at least 1540.
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2006 UEFA Champions League final
The 2006 UEFA Champions League final was an association football match between Barcelona of Spain and Arsenal of England at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Paris, France, on Wednesday, 17 May 2006.
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2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup (Coupe du monde de rugby 2007) was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board.
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2007 Rugby World Cup final
The 2007 Rugby World Cup final was a rugby union match, played on Saturday, 20 October 2007 at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, to determine the winner of the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
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2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and officially branded as Paris 2024, is an international multi-sport event taking place from 24 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with the opening ceremony having taken place on 26 July.
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2nd Armored Division (France)
The French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc, fought during the final phases of World War II in the Western Front for the liberation of France.
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4th Infantry Division (United States)
The 4th Infantry Division is a division of the United States Army based at Fort Carson, Colorado.
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5th arrondissement of Paris
The 5th arrondissement of Paris (Ve arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.
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See also
3rd-century BC establishments
- Apamea (Phrygia)
- Banias
- Berenice (Epirus)
- Colossus of Rhodes
- Cretan League
- Cổ Loa Citadel
- Eastern Ye
- Epi-Olmec culture
- Famagusta
- Fourche Maline culture
- Frataraka
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Hopewell tradition
- Kemondo Iron Age Sites
- Kingdom of Pontus
- List of kings of Numidia
- Ludi Plebeii
- Mauretania
- Meroitic script
- Murugan Temple, Saluvankuppam
- Numidia
- Paris
- Phoenician–Punic Sardinia
- Rabat
- Raqqa
- Scordisci
- Split, Croatia
Cities in Île-de-France
- Évry-Courcouronnes
- Argenteuil
- Asnières-sur-Seine
- Boulogne-Billancourt
- Brie-Comte-Robert
- Colombes
- Courbevoie
- Créteil
- Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
- Nanterre
- Paris
- Poissy
- Saint-Cloud
- Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
- Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- Versailles, Yvelines
- Vitry-sur-Seine
Departments of Île-de-France
Gallia Lugdunensis
- Évreux
- Angers
- Armorica
- Asterix
- Autun
- Auxerre
- Avranches
- Bayeux
- Carhaix-Plouguer
- Chalon-sur-Saône
- Chartres
- Corseul
- Coutances
- Feurs
- Gallia Lugdunensis
- Jublains
- Langres
- Le Mans
- Lisieux
- Lyon
- Mâcon
- Meaux
- Nantes
- Orléans
- Paris
- Rennes
- Rouen
- Sées
- Sens
- Tours
- Troyes
- Vannes
References
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