La Culture Belle Paris

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La CultureBelle Paris

• Le français I
• Préliminaire

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Paris - Les arrondissements
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La Tour Eiffelhttp//www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/u
k/

• Le 31 mars, 1889
• Built for the Universal Exhibition
• Named after the contractor, Gustave Eiffel
• Construction took 2 years 2 months
• Over 236 million visitors
• Originally only meant to remain there for 20 years

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Controversy over the tower

• A petition of 300 names protesting its
  construction, was presented to the Paris city
  government. The petition read, "We, the writers,
  painters, sculptors, architects and lovers of the
  beauty of Paris, do protest with all our vigor
  and all our indignation, in the name of French
  taste and endangered French art and history,
  against the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.
  The press likened it to a "truly tragic street
  lamp", a "belfry skeleton", a "high and skinny
  pyramid of iron ladders", an "odious column of
  bolted metal", a "half built factory pipe", a
  "Tower of Babel".
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  rticles/facts_about_the_eiffel_tower_ii.htmContro
  versy

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LArc de Triomphe

• Parisians call it LÉtoile (the Star)
• 12 streets radiate from this roundabout
• Symbol of French National Spirit
• Commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to honor the
  French military
• Completed in 1836

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• 284 steps to the top
• Under the arc is the tomb of the unknown soldier
• July 14th, Bastille Day, parades begin here and
  the French flag is hung from the center of the
  arch
• The Tour de France also ends here each year.
• The main street is called Le Champs-Elysées

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Le Louvre
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• Originally a fortress, then a palace
• Kings lived there began an art collection
• After the revolution, it was changed to an art
  museum
• Includes over 300,000 works
• Most famous, La Jaconde (Mona Lisa) by Leonardo
  da Vinci)

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Le Moulin Rouge

• Moulin - windmill
• Rouge - red
• Located in Montmartre
• Famous for the can-can dance
• Elton John Frank Sinatra performed here, among
  many others
• Painter Toulouse-Latrec became famous from his
  paintings of the dancers here

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Le Sacré Coeur

• Means Sacred Heart
• Roman Catholic church in Montmartre
• Statues out front of Jean dArc and Saint King
  Louis IX
• Construction began in 1875 and was completed in
  1914
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