Le Génie de la Bastille
Le Génie de la Liberté, also known as Le Génie de la Bastille, is a gilt bronze statue by Auguste Dumont created in 1836. It crowns the July Column at Place de la Bastille in Paris.
Public Art in Paris
Statue of Liberty
Liberty Enlightening the World refers to the Statue of Liberty and several related models and copies in Paris. These include objects in museums, the Jardin du Luxembourg, Île aux Cygnes, and a barge near the Eiffel Tower.
Pont Neuf
Pont Neuf is the oldest existing bridge in Paris and the first stone bridge to cross the Seine entirely. It crosses the river at the western tip of the Île de la Cité and is known for being an uncovered bridge with sidewalks for pedestrians.
Palais de la Cité
Palais de la Cité is a historic palace on the Île de la Cité in central Paris. It served as a royal residence, then as a center of government and justice, and later as a tribunal and prison during the French Revolution.
Louis Vuitton Foundation
The Louis Vuitton Foundation is a corporate foundation created by the LVMH group and its houses. Its museum, designed by Frank Gehry, is located at Jardin d'acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, and is dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
The Kiss
The Kiss is a stone monumental sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși. It depicts two crouching lovers fused into a symmetrical vertical form and is installed as the funerary monument of Tatiana Rachewskaïa in Montparnasse Cemetery.
Palais Bourbon
Palais Bourbon is a governmental palace in Paris’s seventh district, on the left bank of the Seine opposite Place de la Concorde. It serves as the seat of the National Assembly and includes the Hôtel de Lassay on its west side.
Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is a chapel and pilgrimage site in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. It is associated with the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Catherine Labouré and with the Miraculous Medal.
Musée de l'Orangerie
Musée de l'Orangerie is a French national museum of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in Paris, located in the Jardin des Tuileries. It displays Monet’s Nymphéas cycle in two oval rooms and presents works by major modern painters.
Vendôme Column
The Vendôme Column is a victory column in Paris, 44 metres high and covered in bronze. Its shaft rises on a porphyry base and is decorated with spiral bas-reliefs showing trophies and battle scenes, topped by a statue of Napoléon.
Montmartre Cemetery
Montmartre Cemetery is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It covers 11 hectares and is the third largest cemetery in the city, smaller than Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse, and the eastern cemetery.
Olympia
Olympia is a concert hall and theatre building in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at 28 Boulevard des Capucines. Built in 1892 and opened in 1893, it has hosted opera, ballet, music hall performances, cinema screenings, and concerts.
Champ de Mars
Champ de Mars is a vast public garden in Paris’s Gros-Caillou district. Located between the Eiffel Tower and the École militaire, it is one of the city’s largest green spaces and has been a classified site since 1956.
Stade Roland-Garros
Stade Roland-Garros is a tennis stadium built in 1927 in the west of Paris near Bois de Boulogne. It hosts the annual Internationaux de France de tennis and the Paris Major Premier Padel.
Chaillot Palace
Chaillot Palace stands on Chaillot hill in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement at place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre. Built for the 1937 Exposition universelle, it replaced the palais du Trocadéro and is one of the event’s three permanent buildings.
Church of Saint-Eustache
The Church of Saint-Eustache is a parish Catholic church at 146 rue Rambuteau in Paris’s 1st arrondissement, in the heart of Les Halles. Dedicated to Saint Eustache, it is the third largest church in Paris after Notre-Dame and Saint-Sulpice.
Saints Innocents Cemetery
Saints Innocents Cemetery, or Il cimitero degli Innocenti, was a medieval Latin Rite Catholic cemetery in Paris. It was one of the city’s largest parish cemeteries and stood near the Halles district, close to Saint-Eustache and Notre-Dame.
Les colonnes de Buren
Les Deux Plateaux is a work of art by Daniel Buren in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris, created with architect Patrick Bouchain. Commonly called les colonnes de Buren, it replaces a former parking area with an urban installation of striped columns.
Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in Los Angeles in 1980 and later expanded to New York and other international cities. It exhibits artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Cours Florent
Cours Florent is a French theatre school created in 1967 by François Florent. It offers professional training in acting and related disciplines, with campuses in Paris, Brussels, Montpellier, and Lormont.
Petit Palais
The Petit Palais is a historic building and fine arts museum in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, on Avenue Winston Churchill in the Champs Élysées area. Designed by Charles Girault for the 1900 Universal Exposition, it forms part of a monumental complex with the Grand Palais and the Pont Alexandre III.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located in Paris under the Arc de Triomphe. It contains the body of a soldier who died during World War I and is not officially recognized as French. The monument symbolically commemorates all soldiers who died for France.
Les savants de la tour Eiffel
Les savants de la tour Eiffel are 72 names inscribed on the first-floor frieze of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The gilded relief names commemorate scientists, engineers, and industrialists chosen to honor France from 1789 to 1889.
French Communist Party headquarters
The headquarters of the French Communist Party is located in Paris at 2, place du Colonel-Fabien, where it has been based since 1971. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the building is known for its S-shaped form, smoked glass façades, and white dome.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
The Royal Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Catholic parish church in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris. Originally the church of a Benedictine abbey, it is considered the oldest existing church in Paris.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental replica in repoussé copper plates by Auguste Bartholdi, installed at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris. Reduced to one-third of the original Lion de Belfort, it faces toward the Statue of Liberty in the arrondissement.
Shakespeare and Company
Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookstore at 37 rue de la Bûcherie in Paris’s 5th arrondissement. Opened by George Whitman in 1951 as Le Mistral, it became Shakespeare and Company in 1964 and also serves as a free reading library and bookseller.
City Walls of Paris
The city walls of Paris were a series of successive fortifications that surrounded the city from Antiquity to the 18th century, with a long interruption before demolition resumed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Few traces remain today.
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a public garden in northeast Paris, in the 19th arrondissement. Opened in 1867, it covers nearly 25 hectares and is designed as an English-style landscape.
Le Grand Rex
Le Grand Rex is a movie theater at 1 boulevard Poissonnière in the Sentier district. Its facades, roofs, hall, and decor are registered as historical monuments, and it receives about one million visitors each year.
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, on the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Based in Paris, it was created to encourage and protect French scientific research.
Piscine Molitor
Piscine Molitor is a Paris swimming pool and hotel complex near the Bois de Boulogne, between Stade Roland-Garros and Parc des Princes. Inaugurated in 1929, it is noted for its Art Deco design and later reconstruction.
Wall of Love
Wall of Love is an artistically designed mural on the eastern facade of an older residential building in Montmartre, Paris. Established in 2000, it is dedicated to love and displays the phrase “Ich liebe Dich” in over 300 variants and 250 languages.
Philharmonie de Paris
Philharmonie de Paris is a French cultural center in Paris, with a concert hall named Pierre Boulez, exhibition spaces, educational workshops, and rehearsal rooms. It is part of the Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris establishment.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is a cabaret at 12, avenue George-V in the Champs-Élysées district of Paris. Founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin, it is known for shows with an emphasis on absolute aesthetics and a distinctive stage identity.
Musée Carnavalet
Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. It occupies the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau, and displays furnished rooms, historic objects, and paintings of Paris life.
Hôtel Matignon
Hôtel Matignon is a palace and private mansion in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne. It serves as the official residence of the Prime Minister of France, and the name Matignon is used as a metonym for the prime minister’s governmental action.
Musée de Cluny
The Musée de Cluny is a national museum in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the Quartier Latin. Housed in the hôtel de Cluny, it includes the Cluny thermal baths and holds an important collection of medieval objects and artworks.
Equestrian Statue of Joan of Arc
The equestrian statue of Joan of Arc by French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet was inaugurated in 1874 at Place des Pyramides in Paris, France. Commissioned after the defeat in the Franco-German War of 1870, it portrays Joan of Arc on a large draft horse.
Temple
The Temple was an ancient Parisian fortress in the north of the Marais. Built by the Templars from 1240, it later became a prison and was destroyed in 1808.
Musée du quai Branly
Musée du quai Branly is a national museum in Paris, Île-de-France, at 37, quai Branly. Its ethnology collections include African, Asian, Oceanian, and American arts, from antiquity to modern times.
Stade Charléty
Stade Charléty, also called stade Sébastien-Charléty, is a multi-sport complex in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. It includes a stadium, training field, sports hall, specialized rooms, and tennis and squash courts, and houses major French sports institutions.
July Column
The July Column is a victory column erected in Paris’s Place de la Bastille between 1835 and 1840. It commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, known as the Three Glorious Days, and is built over a necropolis containing the bodies of revolutionaries.
Musée Marmottan Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet is a fine arts museum in Paris. It presents art objects and paintings from the First Empire, works by Impressionist painters, and the world’s largest collection of Claude Monet.
Opéra Bastille
Opéra Bastille is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, inaugurated in 1989 as part of François Mitterrand’s Grands Travaux. It is the main facility of the Paris National Opera.
Coulée verte René-Dumont
Coulée verte René-Dumont, formerly called Promenade plantée, is a voie verte and linear park in Paris, France. It follows the route of a former railway line from Place de la Bastille to Porte de Montempoivre.
Place de la République
Place de la République is a public square in Paris, France, located between the 3rd, 10th, and 11th arrondissements. Measuring 3.4 hectares, it is a major junction, transport hub, and frequent site of public, cultural, and political demonstrations.
Hôtel Lutetia
Hôtel Lutetia is a luxury hotel at 45 boulevard Raspail in Paris’s Notre-Dame-des-Champs district. Built in 1910, it has long been associated with prestigious hotel reception, wartime occupation, and later postwar memory.