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Lisa's Galleries of Photos from France, using LiveFrame Gallery Index
This is a special photo gallery collection of the shots I took while living in
France for 3 months during the summer of 2001. They are organized by sight-seeing
location. Enjoy!
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Le Louvre et la Place du Concorde
Once a royal residence, and a public museum since 1793, the Louvre Museum is now home to the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and Venus of Samothrace. La Place du Concorde is adjacent to the Louvre.
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L'Eglise de la Madeleine
This neoclassical church was built in the style of a Greek temple and took more than a century to complete due to design changes and construction delays.
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La Musee d'Orsay
Built in a former train station, the Orsay Museum is now the largest impressionist museum in the world.
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Basilique St Denis et Stade la France
The Basilica at St Denis holds the tombs of centuries of French monarchs: an eerie walk through the catacombs and history. The Stadium of France was the location of France's 1998 World Cup win.
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Montmartre
The highest natural point in Paris, the entire Montmartre area is built on hills with almost vertical rises. As a side note, the excellent 2001 movie "Amelie" is set mainly in the Montmartre region of Paris.
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Chateau de Vincennes
A true royal castle complete with fortifications and moat, Louis XIV spent his honeymoon here; on the grounds is also an impressive gothic cathedral.
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Cite des Sciences et l'Industrie
In the Parc de la Villette area in northern Paris, this area houses a science and technology museum, a large park and cultural gathering spaces.
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Paris Sights
General catch-all category for random photos of various other Paris attractions and neighborhoods.
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La Defense et la Grande Arche
Located at the far western end of the city, Paris's skyscrapers are banished to this spot to prevent the atmosphere of the city from being hampered.
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Chateau de Versailles
The famous Hall of Mirrors where the treaty ending WWI was signed is located within this famous, popular castle that was the home of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil (Sun King).
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Chateau de Fontainebleau
65km southeast of Paris, this Renaissance chateau and its surrounding town has quite a history: used by French royalty and Napoleon as part-time residences, and by the Germans during WWII as their headquarters.
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Chateau de Chantilly
48km north of Paris, this chateau and its grounds date from pre-Revolution times and housed Anne de Montmorency, high constable to six French monarchs.
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Giverny
Monet's Parisian countryside home is a beautifully quaint cottage decorated with the artist's art and surrounded by his two well-loved gardens, one in the traditional French style and one in the Japanese water garden style, where he painted his water lilies.
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La Vallee de la Loire
The large, famous castles of French royal families lie along the valley of the River Loire; our excursion took us to Chenonceau, Chambord, and Cheverny.
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