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    Le Meurice (category Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of Paris)
    pronunciation: [otɛl møʁis]) is a Brunei-owned five-star luxury hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde...
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    November 1825 in Paris, on the Rue Mouffetard, in the present-day 5th arrondissement. His father, Jean André Garnier, 1796–1865, who was originally from...
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  • (where a lecture hall was converted into a 1930s cinema hall) in the 5th arrondissement, and the Théâtre de l'Athénée and its surrounding area in the 9th. High...
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    Third Republic in 1870, as a result of the French defeat at the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War. After the Siege of Paris from 1870 to 1871,...
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    leadership. On 1 September the French army was trapped and surrounded at Sedan. To avoid a slaughter, the Emperor surrendered the army on 2 September,...
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    Palais Bourbon (category Buildings and structures in the 7th arrondissement of Paris)
    legislative chamber of the French Parliament. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Rive Gauche of the Seine, across from the Place de...
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    news of the defeat of the French Army, the surrender of Napoleon III at Sedan, and the proclamation of the Third French Republic on 4 September 1870 was...
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    fountains were not functioning. For the list of Paris fountains by arrondissement, See List of Paris fountains. The history of fountains in Paris until...
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    (Bloomsbury, 2005). Doughty, Robert A. (15 September 2014). The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940. Stackpole military history series. Mechanicsburg...
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    The 61.6 cm x 50.4 cm oil on canvas composition depicts the 14th arrondissement's district, Petit-Montrouge, under a wintry landscape. The oil on canvas...
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