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Paris guidebooks
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Critics' ChoiceNotre-Dame was commissioned in 1160 by Bishop Maurice de Sully, who wanted to rival the smart new abbey that had just gone up in St-Denis. It replaced the earlier St-Etienne...
Pl du Parvis-Notre-DameJardin & Palais du Luxembourg
Critics' ChoiceThe palace itself was built in the 1620s for Marie de Médicis, widow of Henri IV, by Salomon de Brosse on the site of the former mansion of the Duke of Luxembourg. Its...
Pl Auguste-ComteLes Catacombes
Critics' ChoiceBy the mid 1780s, Paris's largest cemetery near Les Halles had become so dangerous and insalubrious that it was closed by royal decree. Bones were to be transferred to a...
1 av du Colonel-Henri-Rol-TanguySacré-Coeur
Critics' ChoiceWork on this enormous mock Romano-Byzantine edifice began in 1877. It was commissioned after the nation's defeat by Prussia in 1870, voted for by the Assemblée Nationale and...
35 rue du Chevalier-de-la-Barre