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French Architecture

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Jeu de Paume

Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is an art museum in Paris with origins in a former tennis court in the Tuileries Gardens. It later became known for exhibitions linked to the Louvre and the Musée de l’Orangerie and for its wartime history.

Couvent des Jacobins

Couvent des Jacobins is an ancient religious building and former barracks in downtown Rennes. It includes a church, a cloister, and convent buildings, and since 2018 it has housed the Rennes Metropole congress center.

Le Lido

Le Lido was a revue theater in Paris founded in 1946 in a former swimming pool on Avenue des Champs-Élysées. It became known for elaborate stage shows, international performers, and the Bluebell Girls.

CinéFabrique

CinéFabrique is a public higher education institution in Lyon and Marseille that trains students aged 18 and over for cinema and audiovisual professions. Its teaching is practice-based and includes a third alternating year.

Le Bateau-Lavoir

Le Bateau-Lavoir was a dilapidated house on Montmartre in Paris, where later famous artists rented studios around 1900. It became associated with early Cubism and was destroyed by fire in 1970.

Bourse du Travail

The Bourse du Travail in Lyon is a trades hall and performance venue designed in 1929 by Charles Meysson. Opened in 1934, it now hosts concerts, one-man shows, dance performances, and seminars, while retaining strong links to trade-union activity.

Théâtre Mogador

Théâtre Mogador is a performance venue in Paris. Built in 1913 and inaugurated in 1919, it has three levels named orchestre, corbeille, and balcon. Originally called Palace Théâtre, it was later renamed for its location on rue de Mogador.

Musée Grévin

Musée Grévin is a private wax museum in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, created by Arthur Meyer. It contains wax reproductions of famous personalities, recreated French historical scenes, and attractions including the Grévin theater and the Palais des Mirages.

Château de Bagatelle

Château de Bagatelle is a pleasure pavilion, or folie, built in 1777 by architect François-Joseph Bélanger for the comte d'Artois. It is located in the parc de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, now annexed to Paris.

Val-de-Grâce

Val-de-Grâce was a former French military teaching hospital located in Val-de-Grâce. It served social security beneficiaries, accepted referred patients, and took part in the public hospital service mission with AP-HP.

Musée de l'Armée

The Musée de l'Armée is a French military museum and national museum located at the Hôtel des Invalides. Created in 1905, it brought together the Artillery Museum and the Historical Army Museum and later acquired major wartime objects.

Palais Niel

Palais Niel is a 19th-century palace in Toulouse, built for Marshal of France Adolphe Niel between 1863 and 1868. It stands on rue Montoulieu-Saint-Jacques, near the allées Forain-François-Verdier and square Boulingrin.

Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré

Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré is a Paris shopping street stretching from rue Royale to place des Ternes. It includes the Élysée Palace and is lined with embassies, luxury stores, haute couture shops, galleries, and antique shops.

Petite France

Petite France is a district on the southwestern part of Strasbourg’s Grande Île. It is crossed by canals of the Ill river and contains 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses with tall pointed roofs.