Paris monuments

figureS & events


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Académie Française and the Immortals

American Cathedral in Paris

American Church in Paris

Arc de Triomphe on Champs-Elysées

Arc du Carousel du Louvre

Archives Nationales

B

Banque de France

Bastille Fortress Model at the Archives Nationales

Beaubourg Museum / Pompidou Center

Bir-Hakeim Bridge

Bois de Boulogne Park

Bouquinistes - "Removal" from the Keys of the Seine

Bourse de Commerce / Pinault Collection

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Carnavalet Museum

Carnavalet Museum - Destroyed Statues of Kings

Ceramic Hotel - Art Nouveau Architecture

Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

Chapelle Expiatoire / Expiatory Chapel

Charles de Gaulle Foundation

Christmas Lights and Decorations in Paris

Cité de l’Architecture Museum

Cité de l’Architecture - “France/North America” Art Deco Exhibition

Comédie Française (Molière)

Conciergerie

Conciergerie Tower Clock

Conseil d’Etat

Cordeliers Club - Réfectoire des Cordeliers

Cour des Comptes / Palais Cambon

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E

Ecole Militaire - Liberation of Paris

Eiffel Tower Design

F

Fellah Fountain

Fountain of Mars

Fountain of Peace

Fountain on Place du Châtelet / Fontaine du Palmier

Fountain of the Innocents

Fountain with Sparkling Water

Fouquet Art Nouveau Jewelry Store

Franck (Anne) Garden in Paris

G

Gaillon Fountain

Galerie Vero-Dodat (Covered Passage)

Galerie Vivienne (Covered Passage)

Grand Palais

Guimard (Hector) - Art Déco Building Staircase

Guimard (Hector) - Hôtel Roszé

H

Haussmann’ Statue on Haussman Boulevard

Hôtel de Beauvais - Part I

Hôtel de Beauvais - Part II

Hôtel de Beauvais - Part III

Hôtel de Lamoignon / Historical Library of Paris

Hôtel de la Monnaie - “L’Art-Gent” Expo

Hôtel de Sens - Forney Library

Hôtel de Sully

Hôtel des Invalides - Louis XIV Entrance Portico

Hôtel Talleyrand - Paris U.S. Embassy Visit

Hôtel Valentinois - Ben Franklin’s Residence

Hôtel de Ville (Paris Main City Hall)

I

Institut de France

J

Japan Cultural Center in Paris

Jeu de Paume Photography Art Center

K

Khan (Albert) Japanese Gardens

L

La Fayette’s Tomb - Changing of the Flag on 4th July

Legion of Honour Museum

Louis Vuitton Foundation

Louis-Vuiton Foundation - Monet-Mitchell Exhibition

Louvois Fountain

Louvre Colonnade

Louvre - Genesis of the Museum

Louvre Medieval Fortress

Louvre Museum

Louvre Pyramid

Louvre Victory of Samothrace

Louvre - Wing by the Seine River

Luxembourg Gardens - Queens’ Statues

Luxembourg Palace

Luxembourg Palace - Senate

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Madeleine Church

Mazarine Library

Medici Fountain - Luxembourg Gardens

Medici Gallery in the Louvre Museum

Medicine Museum (History of Medicine)

Memorial of Jewish People Round Up at “Vel d’Hiv”

Meter Plaque (Standard Bar)

La Monnaie de Paris - Mint Museum

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Jewelry

Museum of the Liberation of Paris 1

Museum of the Liberation of Paris 2

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Napoleon Statue as General at Les Invalides

Napoleon Statue as Emperor - Vendôme Column

Napoleon's Tomb at Les Invalides

National Assembly / Palais Bourbon

Notre-Dame Cathedral - After the Fire

Notre-Dame Restoration - January 2024 Update

Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Church

Notre-Dame de la Consolation Church

Notre-Dame des Blancs Manteaux Church

Notre-Dame du Travail Church 1900’s

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Opéra Comique

Opéra - Garnier & Empress Eugénie

Opéra Garnier Façade by JR (Artist)

Opéra Garnier’s Inauguration

Orangerie Museum

Oratoire du Louvre Protestant Church

Ordre de la Libération Museum

Orsay Museum

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Palais Bourbon / National Assembly

Palais Brongniart - Napoleon's Stock Exchange

Palais Cambon / Cour des Comptes

Palais Iéna

Palais-Royal

Palais-Royal (Arcades & Gardens)

Palais-Royal - Shooting Series on Carême Pastry Chef

Palais Vivienne - Napoleon Private Collection

Panthéon

Panthéon & Napoleon

Parc Monceau

Pascal (Blaise) - Statue

Petit Palais

Petit Palais - Guimard Art Nouveau Furniture

Pinault Collection / Bourse de Commerce

Place de la Bastille

Place de la Concorde

Place de la Concorde - Fountains

Place de la Concorde Restored Fountains

Place de la Concorde - Egyptian Obelisk

Place de la Sorbonne

Place des Victoires

Place des Vosges

Place Vendôme - Royal Square

Pompidou Center / Beaubourg Museum

Pont de la Concorde Bridge

Pont des Arts Bridge

Pont Louis-Philippe Bridge

Pont Neuf Bridge

Pont de la Tournelle - Sainte-Geneviève Statue

Port-Royal Abbaye Destruction

Protestant Temple in the Marais

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R

Richelieu National Library

Richelieu National Library - Labrouste Room

Richelieu National Library - Oval Room

Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) - Statue

Rue de Furstenberg

Rue des Colonnes

Russian Holy-Trinity Cathedral

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Sacred-Heart Montmartre Basilica

Saint-Alexandre Nevsky - Paris Russian Cathedral

Saint-Ambroise Church

Saint-Augustin Church

Saint-Etienne du Mont Church

Saint-Eustache Church

Saint-Ferdinand Church

Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois Church

Saint-Germain des Près Church

Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais Church

Saint James & Albany Hotel

Saint-Leu Saint-Gilles Church

Saint-Louis des Invalides Cathedral - Part I

Saint-Louis des Invalides Cathedral - Part II

Saint-Louis en l'île Church

Saint-Martin des Champs - CNAM Library

Saint-Merri Church

Saint-Michel Fountain

Saint-Paul Saint-Louis Church

Saint-Roch Church

Saint-Sulpice Church

Saint-Sulpice Fountain

Sainte-Chapelle - Part 1: Inside

Sainte-Chapelle - Part 2: Façade

Sainte-Clotilde Basilica

La Samaritaine - Art Nouveau Dept. Store

Sauvage (Henri) - Studio Building

Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

Square Louvois

Statue of Liberty Copy

T

Temple Prison - Mairie 3rd Arrondissement

Tour Saint-Jacques

Tuileries Gardens

Tuileries Gardens - Stairs

“Twin Fountain” on Rue François 1er (Premier)

“Twin Fountain” on Place Salvatore Allende

U

U.S. Embassador’s Residence in Paris

V

Val-de-Grâce Church Part 1

Val-de-Grâce Church Part 2

W

Wallace Fountains in Paris

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Y

Z

Cafés & restaurants

A la mère de famille - Chocolates and Sweets

Angelina Pastry Shop and Hot Chocolate

Auberge du Mouton Blanc Restaurant

Auteuil Brasserie

Bo & Mie Bakery

Bofinger Brasserie

Bouillon Racine Art Nouveau Restaurant

Brasserie Lipp - Hemingway & Art Nouveau

Café du Commerce

Café Isaka - Japanese Fried Ice Cream

Carette Tea & Pastry Café

Chaudun - Maison Michel Chaudun Chocolates

Chez Huguette - Seafood Restaurant

Dépôt Légal - Restaurant with real terrasse

Ducasse (Alain) - Chef’ Chocolates

Foucher Chocolates

Galette des Rois - Kings’ Cake Tradition

Gosselin - Bûche de Noël / Christmas Log Cake

Grande Epicerie at the Bon Marché

Grolet (Cédric)’s Croissants

Cedric Grolet - Meurice Hotel Pastry Shop

Hanami Restaurant - Japanese Street Food

Hibou Pub

Kaiten Sushi Bar Restaurant

Kanadé Japanese Restaurant

Kitsuné Café in Paris

Kodawari Ramen I - Tsukiji

Kodawari Ramen II - Yokochō

La Durée “Macarons”

Larnicol - Maison Georges Larnicol

La Plage Sea Food Restaurant

Lupicia Tea Room & Shop

Maison Boissiers - Dragées Candies

Maison d’Isabelle’ Epipahny Kings’ Cake

Maison Leroux - Chocolates & Caramels

Maison Tetrel Candy Store

Maison Thévenin - Pastry Shop

Matsuda Japanese Restaurant

Merveilleux Pastry Shop

Nina Tea Room (Marie-Antoinette Tea Room)

Paris Cafés - Flower Trend

Paris Jewish Quarter Falafels

Paris London Café Restaurant

Pozzetto Gelato Café

Sadaharu Aoki - Japanese Pastries

Servant Confiserie & Chocolaterie d'Auteuil

Sir Winston British Pub in Paris

Le Soufflé Restaurant

Takumi Japanese Cheesecake Pastry Shop

Tomo - Japanese Pastry & Coffee Shop

Toraya Japanese Pastry Shop

Tranché Bakery Shop Paris

Vagenende Brasserie - Art Nouveau Decor

Vaudeville - Art Deco Brasserie

Verlet Café

Vin et Marée - Seafood Restaurants

Xiao Long Kan - Chinese Hotpot

Yamazaki - Japanese Tea House & Pastry Shop

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1789 Abolition of Privileges of Nobility

Adams (Abigail) - Womens’ Rights

Anschluss - Nazi Germany invades Austria

Appert (Nicolas) - Appertization!

Arc (Joan of) - Feast

Arnold (Benedict) - Betrayal

“Aryanization” - Looting of Jewish Assets

1787 Assembly of Notables

Assignats - French Revolution Money Bonds

Austerlitz - Battle of the Three Emperors

B

Bailly - First Mayor of Paris Execution

Balzac (Honoré de) - The “Napoleon of Letters”

Barry (Madame Du) - Execution

Bartholdi (Auguste) - Sculptor

Battle of Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo

Battle of Saratoga

Bazar de la Charité Fire

Beauharnais (Josephine de) - Letters

Beauharnais (Josephine de) & Napoleon

Beauharnais (Josephine de) - Passing

Bernhardt (Sarah) - Patroness of Art Nouveau

Berthier (Napoleon’s Marshall)

Boston Massacre

Brooks (Mel) - Master of Spoof

Brunswick Manifesto - French Revolution Wars

Boussard (Jean-Marie) - Architect

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Carême (Marie-Antonin) - Commander in Chefs!

Champaigne (Philippe de) - Royal Painter

Champollion & Hieroglyphics

Chevalier d’Eon - A Handsome Woman

Churchill (Winston) - Prime Minister

Concordat - Religious Freedom

Condorcet - Statue

Congress of Vienna - Restoration of Monarchy

Corsica

Corvisart - Napoleon’s Doctor

1871 Commune

Crown Jewels

Crystal Night / Krystall Nacht

D

Danton - 1983 Film

Danton (Georges) - Statue

David (Jacques-Louis) - Artist

D-Day Operation Overlord

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Defenestrations of Prague

Delacroix (Eugène) - French Revolution Painting

Denon (Dominique-Vivant)

Desaix (Napoleon’s General)

Descartes, René

Desmoulins (Camille & Lucile) - Execution

Diderot and d’Alembert - The Encyclopaedia

E

Eiffel (Gustave)

Entartete Musik - Nazi Propaganda Exhibition

1614 Estates General

1789 Estates General

F

Fabre d’Eglantine - Revolutionary Calendar

Feast of the Supreme Being

Festival of the Federation

First Hot Air Balloon Flight with Passengers

Fontaine (Jean de la) - Statue

Fouquet (Nicolas)

Fouquier-Tinville - Revolutionary Court Prosecutor

France 1st Presidential Election

Franklin (Benjamin) - Apple TV Series Shooting in Paris

Franklin (Benjamin) - Apple TV Series Release

Franklin (Benjamin) - Birth

Franklin (Benjamin) - First American Treaties

Franklin (Benjamin) - Statue

French Revolution - Conscription

French Revolution - Wars

1830 French Revolution - The Emigrates' Billion

1848 French Revolution

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Gaulle (Charles de)

Gaulle (Charles de) - Appeal

Gaulle (Charles de) - Presidential Election

Geneva Convention Treaty

German Armies Entered Paris!

Goering (Herman) Suicide

Gouges (Olympe de) - Execution

Grasse (Comte De) - Battle of the Capes

Cedric Grolet’s Croissants

Guillotin (Doctor) & the Guillotine

H

Hamilton (Alexander)

Hamilton (Alexander) Death - Duel with Aaron Burr

Hamilton (Alexander) - Origin of U.S. Dollar

Hebert (Jacques-René)

Henry (Patrick) - "Liberty or Death"

Henry II - Nostradamus’ Prophecy

Henry de Navarre - Marriage with Marguerite de Valois

Henry IV - Religious Conversions

Henry IV - Plaque

Henry IV - Statue

Herscher (Ernest-Marie) - Art Nouveau Architect

Hitler Appointed Chancelor of Germany

Hitler’s Death

Hitler Rearming Germany

Hitler & Stalin - Non Agression Pact

Hugo (Victor) - Views on Napoleon I and Napoleon III

I

1900 Inauguration of Paris Metro

“Incroyables et Merveilleuses”

Ingres (Jean-Auguste-Dominique)

J

Jefferson (Thomas) - Statue

Joan of Arc - Statue

Joseph II visits Louis XVI at Versailles

Journal de Paris - First Daily Newspaper

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L

La Fayette’s Tomb - Changing of the Flag on 4th July

La Fayette (Marquis de) - Passing

La Fayette (Marquis de) - Plaque

La Fayette and Washington - First Meeting

La Fayette - 1924-25 Return to the United States

Lamballe (Princesse de)

La Pompadour (Marquise de)

Larochejaquelein - Royalist Fighter

Las Cases (Emmanuel de) - Napoleon’s Memoirs

La Valière (Louise de)

Lavirotte (Jules) - Art Nouveau Architect

Lavoisier (Antoine de) - Execution

Le Corbusier - Architect

Le Corbusier - La Cité Radieuse in Marseille

Le Corbusier - Voisin Project

Legion of Honor

L'Enfant (Pierre Charles)

Le Nôtre (André)

Le Pelletier’s Assassination

1944 Liberation of Paris Plaques

John Locke - Treatises of Government

Louis XIV - Secret Marriage

Louis XIV - Sun King

Louis XIV - Statue at the Louvre

Louis XIV - Statue on Place des Victoires

Louis XV - Assassination Attempt on

Louis XV - Vice on a Horse

Louis XVI - Coronation

Louis XVI - Execution of

Louis XVI - Marriage with Marie-Antoinette

Louis XVII - Death

Louis Joseph Xavier François de Bourbon - 1st Dauphin

Louisiana Discovery by Cavelier de la Salle

Luther (Martin) - 95 Theses

M

Maginot Line Contruction before WWII

La Marseillaise

Marie-Antoinette - “Killer Queen”

Marie-Antoinette - Marriage with Louis XVI

Marie-Antoinette - Trial at the Conciergerie

Marshall Plan

McCullough (David) - Historian

Medici (Catherine de)

Mirabeau - First Man in the Pantheon!

Molière - Death

Molière - Statue and Fountain

Montespan (Marquise de) - Royal Favorite

Montesquieu - The Spirit of Laws

Mucha (Alphons) - Art Nouveau

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Napoleon - 1800 Plebiscite

Napoleon - 1801 Lunéville Peace Treaty

Napoleon - Armistice with Royalist Movement

Napoleon - Auction Sale in London

Napoleon - Bachelor’s Degree

Napoleon - Birth of Egyptology

Napoleon - Comédie Française Reform

Napoleon - Coronation as Emperor

Napoleon - Coup to Power

Napoleon - Farewell

Napoleon - Fire Brigades Reform

Napoleon - First Victory in Toulon 1793

Napoleon - Jewish People Equal Rights’ Decrees

Napoleon - Museum Decree (Chaptal)

Napoleon - and the Pantheon

Napoleon - Quotes by Notorious Figures

Napoleon - Return of Ashes from Saint-Helena

Napoleon - Second Marriage

Napoleon - Upcoming Ridley Scott’ movie

Napoleon II - Napoleon' Son

Napoleon III - 150th Death Anniversary Church Mass

Night of the Long Knives

Night of Varennes / Flight to Varennes

Noailles (Marie-Françoise Adrienne de)

Nuremberg Race Laws

O

Oath of the Tennis Court

Otis (James) and the Stamp Act

P

Paine (Thomas) - Common Sense

Paul 1st - Russian Tsar Assassination

Paris Getting Bigger!

Perret (Auguste) - Palais Iéna

Pétain (Philippe) - Vichy Regime

Pillnitz Declaration - Threat to the French Nation

Pivot (Bernard) - Tribute

Polignac (Duchesse de)

Préfet - Napoleon's Decree

Princesse de Lamballe Gruesome Death

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R

Revere (Paul) - The Midnight Ride of

Richelieu’s Death

1910 Rise of the Seine

Robespierre (Maximilien) - Execution

Rochambeau Statue in paris

Rouget De Lisle

Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) - Ethnomusicology

S

Saint-Bartholomew Massacre

Sainte-Geneviève - Feast of

Saint-Thierry

Sartre (Jean-Paul) & Nazi Germany Occupation

Scuttling of the French Fleet during WWII

September Massacres

Sévigné (Madame de or Marquise de)

Siege of Yorktown

Soulages (Pierre) - “Outrenoir”

Stamp Act

1929 Stock Market Crash

Sully (Maximilien de)

T

Talleyrand (Charles-Maurice de) - Death

Talleyrand - Famous Quotes

Third Republic Proclamation

Tour de France

Treaty of Campo Formio

Treaty of Mortefontaine

Treaty of Tilsit

U

Ulm - Battle

U.S. Declaration of Independance

V

Vergennes (Count de)

Villers-Coterêt Edict - French Language

Voltaire

W

Wagon (Alfred) - Art Nouveau Building

Washington (George) - Crossing the Delaware

Washington (George) - Death

Washington (George) - Statue

Womens’ March to Versailles

WWII 1940 Armistice between France and Nazi Germany

WWII 1945 Nazi Germany - Two Surrender Acts

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Y

1945 Yalta Conference

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