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Hôtel de Sens. Front façade. General information. Location. Paris, France. The Hôtel de Sens ( French pronunciation: [otɛl də sɑ̃s]) or Hôtel des archevêques de Sens is a 16th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in the Marais, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It nowadays houses the Forney art library .
Pont des Arts. / 48.85833°N 2.33750°E / 48.85833; 2.33750. The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square ( cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First French Empire ).
Hôtel de la Païva. The Hôtel de la Païva ("Mansion of La Païva") is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, that was built between 1856 and 1866, at 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées by the courtesan Esther Lachmann, better known as La Païva. [1] She was born in modest circumstances in the Moscow ghetto, to Polish parents.
The Cité internationale des arts is an artist-in-residence building complex which accommodates artists of all specialities and nationalities in Paris. It comprises two sites, one located in the Marais and the other in Montmartre. [1] Approximately 1200 artists, choreographers, musicians, writers and designers from around the world live and ...
The Marais ( Le MaraisFrench: [lə maʁɛ] ⓘ; "the marsh") is a historic district in Paris, France. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the Seine. Having once been an aristocratic district, it is home to many buildings of historic and architectural importance.
Grande Arche at night. A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941–2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than ...
The Hôtel des Invalides (English: "house of invalids"), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation: [lezɛ̃valid]), 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.
Coordinates: 48°51′03″N 2°21′34″E. Hôtel Lambert in 2010. The Hôtel Lambert ( French: [otɛl lɑ̃bɛːʁ]) is an hôtel particulier, a grand mansion townhouse, built between 1640 and 1644 on the Quai Anjou on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. In the 19th century, the name Hôtel Lambert ...