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Paris PARIS
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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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Place de l’Etoile ( Place of the star) Twelve streets converge here, the most important of which is the Champs- Elysees.
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Traffic jam: Un embouteillage
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Les Champs-Elysees -Tree-lined boulevard -Stretches between the Louvre and L’arc de triomphe
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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
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Champs-de-Mars is the park in front of the Eiffel Tower
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Ice skating on the Eiffel Tower
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La Cathedrale Notre- Dame de Paris -A Roman Catholic Church -An example of Gothic architecture
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Inside of Notre-Dame
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Les Invalides -Military museum and memorial -Napoleon is buried here inside of 6 coffins -Napoleon was an important political leader in the 1800s
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Les Invalides Napoleon’s Tomb
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Le Pantheon -Modeled after the Roman Monument of the same name - Neoclassical style - Burial place of many famous French people
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La Seine -The major river that runs through Paris -Divides Paris into La Rive Gauche and La Rive Droit
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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
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Artwork of Napoleon’s Rule
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The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Di Vinci
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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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Vincent Van Gogh
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Seurat
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Claude Monet
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Sacre-Coeur/ Montmartre
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Montmartre is a hill in the northern part of the city. Sacre Coeur sits atop the hill Neighborhood known for nightlife and art
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Le Palais de L’Elysee
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L’Opera – Palais Garnier
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Le Moulin Rouge
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Le Centre Pompidiou
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