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Paris PARIS. L’Arc de Triomphe - Location of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Built to commemorate those who fought in the French Napoleonic Wars.

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1 Paris PARIS

2 L’Arc de Triomphe - Location of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Built to commemorate those who fought in the French Napoleonic Wars

3 Place de l’Etoile ( Place of the star) Twelve streets converge here, the most important of which is the Champs- Elysees.

4 Traffic jam: Un embouteillage

5 Les Champs-Elysees -Tree-lined boulevard -Stretches between the Louvre and L’arc de triomphe

6 La Tour Eiffel Champs-de-Mars -Designed as the entrance way for the 1889 World’s Fair - It is the most visited paid monument in the world -It is the symbol of Paris and of France

7 Champs-de-Mars is the park in front of the Eiffel Tower

8 Ice skating on the Eiffel Tower

9 La Cathedrale Notre- Dame de Paris -A Roman Catholic Church -An example of Gothic architecture

10 Inside of Notre-Dame

11 Les Invalides -Military museum and memorial -Napoleon is buried here inside of 6 coffins -Napoleon was an important political leader in the 1800s

12 Les Invalides Napoleon’s Tomb

13 Le Pantheon -Modeled after the Roman Monument of the same name - Neoclassical style - Burial place of many famous French people

14 La Seine -The major river that runs through Paris -Divides Paris into La Rive Gauche and La Rive Droit

15 Le Musee du Louvre -The largest national museum in France - Was once the King and Queen’s Palace -La Pyramide in front is very controversial -Les jardins de Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens) are in front of the Louvre

16 Artwork of Napoleon’s Rule

17 The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Di Vinci

18 Le Musee d’Orsay -Museum of beaux-arts (fine arts) built in an old train station - collection of masterpieces in the Impressionist style

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20 Vincent Van Gogh

21 Seurat

22 Claude Monet

23 Sacre-Coeur/ Montmartre

24 Montmartre is a hill in the northern part of the city. Sacre Coeur sits atop the hill Neighborhood known for nightlife and art

25 Le Palais de L’Elysee

26 L’Opera – Palais Garnier

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28 Le Moulin Rouge

29 Le Centre Pompidiou

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