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    Un projet de Napoléon Ier : le Palais du roi de Rome, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1955, p. 41. (fr) Emmanuel Larroche, L'expédition d'Espagne 1823 : De la guerre...
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    Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
    designed new buildings for Napoleon, especially the Palais du Roi de Rome (Palace of the King of Rome, to be built for Napoleon’s son on the site of what...
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    The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right...
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    officially attained his legal majority, but as the head of the Conseil du Roi, she retained the power. Noted for her ceaseless political intrigues at...
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    The Palais de la Cité (French pronunciation: [palɛ d(ə) la site]), located on the Île de la Cité in the Seine River in the centre of Paris, is a major...
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    The Élysée Palace (French: Palais de l'Élysée, pronounced [palɛ də lelize]) is the official residence of the President of the French Republic in Paris...
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    De Cotte had also previously designed the Hôtel du grand Doyenné, the first hôtel particulier in Louis Quinze style built in Strasbourg. The Palais Rohan...
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    the Pont de Neuilly, Les Invalides, Palais du Roi de Rome, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Étienne-Louis Boullée's chapel at Sainte-Roche, the Arc de Triomphe...
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    Saint-Jean-des-Vignes de Soissons. Known to be "as beautiful as an angel", Philippe became the duc d’Orléans' lover in 1658, while living at the duke's Palais-Royal residence...
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    d'Apollon – Apollo Fountain, contemporary view "Versailles, le jardin du Roi" by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, 1914–1920, oil on canvas, 17 x 30 cm, Musée Lambinet...
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