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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    exclusively and reciprocally twinned with: Rome, 1956 Seule Paris est digne de Rome; seule Rome est digne de Paris. (in French) Solo Parigi è degna di...
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  • Resistance fighters who were shot at Mont Valérien during World War II (1939–45). Pascal Convert was born in 1957 in Mont-de-Marsan. He originally studied literature...
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  • Henri Lagriffoul (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    concentration and extermination camps for the Mémorial de la France combattante in Mont-Valérien, inaugurated in 1960. It depicts emaciated hands trying...
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    Panthéon (redirect from Panthéon de Paris)
    the Pantheon in Rome which had been used in this way since the 17th century. The first panthéonisé was Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, although...
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    southeast. The park is named after the Campus Martius ("Mars Field") in Rome, which was dedicated to the god Mars. The name alludes to the fact that the...
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  • René Leleu (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    created one of the bronze sculptures for the Mémorial de la France combattante at Mont Valérien in 1960. It depicts a phoenix rising from its ashes, and...
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    triumphant patriotic messages. Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 m (164 ft), width of 45 m...
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    the Diocese of Chambéry and others. The organization was based at Mont-Valérien, in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes. Rauzan founded the Congregation of...
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    of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former medieval abbey...
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    The Place de la Concorde (French: [plas də la kɔ̃kɔʁd]; lit. 'Concord Square') is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 7.6 ha (19...
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