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    Sellerie de Paris and Sellerie de la Grande Rue (13th century), grand'rue de Paris, grande rue or rue des Saints Innocents, and grant chaussée de Monsieur...
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    replacing the Gothic style. Paris landmarks built during the 16th century include the Tuileries Palace, the Fontaine des Innocents, the Lescot wing of the...
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    dances, tables of food, four fountains filled with wine at the Marché des Innocents, and a lottery giving away thousands of packages of food and wine. ...
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    style. The Fontaine des Innocents (1549), next to the city market, celebrated the official entrance of king Henry II into Paris, by Pierre Lescot and...
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    Montespan. The wedding ceremony took place in a chapel at the Église Saint-Eustache, Paris. Françoise later recounted that as she had neglected to bring...
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    The Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles de Paris is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It has housed the relics of the Empress...
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    among Parisian saints". In 1303, the earliest known confraternity in Genevieve's honour was formed in the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris. Other confraternities...
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    Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 37–38. Commune du Mont-Saint-Michel (50353), INSEE Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet...
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    examination of stealing a purse in a public place, such as the Cemetery of Saints-Innocents, under the scrutiny of their teachers. The Courtyard had its own King...
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    medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France. Construction...
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