• Thumbnail for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    remembrance Commemorative inscription in the Panthéon of Paris Portrait and images from The Little Prince on a 50-franc banknote Historical marker where the Saint-Exupérys...
    102 KB (11,573 words) - 07:35, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gardens of Versailles
    this fountain into the Bassin de Neptune. (Marie 1972, 1975; Thompson 2006; Verlet 1985) Excavated in 1678, the Pièce d'eau des Suisses – named for the...
    74 KB (9,696 words) - 14:40, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean Moulin
    Jean Moulin (category Burials at the Panthéon, Paris)
    1993, commemorative French 2, 100 and 500 franc coins were issued, showing a partial image of Moulin against the Croix de Lorraine and using a fedora-and-scarf...
    38 KB (4,771 words) - 18:18, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Luxor Obelisks
    The total cost of relocating the obelisk was estimated at 2.5 million francs (equivalent to an estimated €16 million or $19 million in 2020). The high...
    17 KB (1,771 words) - 08:55, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jacques-Louis David
    Jacques-Louis David (category Prix de Rome for painting)
    and for this painting, he received twenty-four thousand Francs. David was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1803. He was promoted to an Officier...
    68 KB (8,944 words) - 03:44, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alberto Santos-Dumont
    Alberto Santos-Dumont (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    3,500 francs to anyone who flew 25 metres; the second, instituted by the French aeroclub, would award 1,500 francs ($300) to anyone who flew 100 metres;...
    167 KB (19,183 words) - 19:32, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Hirshhorn
    establishing an office in Toronto in 1933. In the 1950s, he and geologist Franc Joubin were primarily responsible for the "Big Z" uranium discovery in northeastern...
    8 KB (836 words) - 04:56, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Notre-Dame de Paris
    year, Viollet-le-Duc submitted a budget of 3,888,500 francs, which was reduced to 2,650,000 francs, for the restoration of Notre-Dame and the construction...
    135 KB (14,418 words) - 01:46, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eiffel Tower
    Eiffel Tower (redirect from La dame de fer)
    contract granting him 1.5 million francs toward the construction costs: less than a quarter of the estimated 6.5 million francs. Eiffel was to receive all income...
    84 KB (9,173 words) - 03:35, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paris Fashion Week
    Paris Fashion Week (French: Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer...
    15 KB (1,728 words) - 05:19, 2 March 2024