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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

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Notre-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-Dame
Major venue FREE

Jardin & Palais du Luxembourg

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The 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-Comte
Major venue FREE

Palais-Royal

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Built for Cardinal Richelieu by Jacques Lemercier, the building was once known as the Palais Cardinal. Richelieu left it to Louis XIII, whose widow Anne d'Autriche preferred it...

l du Palais-Royal
Major venue FREE

Sacré-Coeur

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Work 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
Major venue FREE