Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Paris, France

The gallery of paleontology and comparative anatomy, in the plural galleries of comparative anatomy and paleontology, is one of the galleries of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). The museum galleries are buildings that each constitute a museum labeled "Musée de France", specialized in a specific field of natural history. The gallery of paleontology and comparative anatomy is located in the East of the Jardin des Plantes de Paris, at the start of rue Buffon, on the side of the Austerlitz station, near Place Valhubert.

Wikipedia: Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (FR), Website

The Mineralogy and Geology Gallery is an establishment of the National Museum of Natural History. It is an ERP, it is labeled "Musée de France", and it is located in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. It has a collection of about 770,000 specimens between samples of rocks, minerals, crystals, gems, meteorites and related works of art. This collection is one of the oldest in the world.

Wikipedia: Galerie de minéralogie et de géologie du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (FR), Website

The Grande Galerie de l'Évolution (GGE) is one of the galleries of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN). The Museum's galleries are buildings that are museums in themselves and each specialises in a specific area of natural history.

Wikipedia: Grande galerie de l'évolution (FR), Website

The Cuvier Fountain is a Parisian monument located at the corner of Rue Linné and 20, rue Cuvier, opposite the Jardin des Plantes, in the 5th arrondissement.

Wikipedia: Fontaine Cuvier (FR)

The Arènes de Lutèce are among the most important ancient Roman remains in Paris, together with the Thermes de Cluny. Constructed in the 1st century AD, this theatre could once seat 15,000 people and was used also as an amphitheatre to show gladiatorial combats.

Wikipedia: Arènes de Lutèce (EN)

The Hotel Le Brun is a private mansion located at 47 rue du Cardinal-Lemoine, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Le Brun (FR)

The Pot-de-Fer fountain, incorrectly called the "Mouffetard fountain", is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, at 60, rue Mouffetard, at the corner of rue du Pot-de-Fer.

Wikipedia: Fontaine du Pot-de-Fer (FR)

The Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie is a building at 3 rue Michelet in Paris, built for the educational institution of the same name. It was initially designed in 1920 in a unique eclectic style by architect Paul Bigot, and completed in 1932. It has been dubbed "the most curious building in Paris". The building is currently occupied by the École d'Histoire de l’Art et d'Archéologie, a department of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Wikipedia: Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie (EN)

The Fontaine de l'Observatoire is a monumental fountain located in the Jardin Marco Polo, south of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, with sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was dedicated in 1874. It is also known as the Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde, for the four parts of the world embodied by its female figures, or simply the Fontaine Carpeaux.

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The Capucins underground quarries are former quarries of building stone (limestone) exploited between the 12th and 17th centuries, located under the 14th, 13th and 5th arrondissements of Paris, in a perimeter covering the Cochin Hospital, part of the Boulevard de Port-Royal and the Rue de la Santé. They are maintained and showcased by a non-profit association, in the form of an ecomuseum.

Wikipedia: Carrières souterraines des Capucins (FR)

The Homage to Arago is a work of public art consisting of a series of medallions scattered throughout the Parisian soil and aligned along the Paris meridian. It was designed in 1994 in honour of the French scientist and politician François Arago on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.

Wikipedia: Hommage à Arago (FR)

Denfert-Rochereau station is a railway station in Paris. It was one of the first stations of the French railway network, and is still in use as a station of Paris' RER line B.

Wikipedia: Denfert-Rochereau station (Paris RER) (EN)

The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people. Built to consolidate Paris's ancient stone quarries, they extend south from the Barrière d'Enfer former city gate; the ossuary was created as part of the effort to eliminate the effects of the city's overflowing cemeteries. The consequences of the extreme amounts of rotting human flesh caused many people to fall ill, adding to the cemeteries even further. The Cemetery of Holy Innocence was, at one point, 2.5 meters above ground level due to the excess in bio-waste. Preparation work began shortly after a 1774 series of basement wall collapses around the Holy Innocents' Cemetery added a sense of urgency to the cemetery-eliminating measure, and from 1786, nightly processions of covered wagons transferred remains from most of Paris's cemeteries to a mine shaft opened near the Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.

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Between 1900 and 1913, Hector Guimard was responsible for the first generation of entrances to the underground stations of the Paris Métro. His Art Nouveau designs in cast iron and glass dating mostly to 1900, and the associated lettering that he also designed, created what became known as the Métro style and popularized Art Nouveau. However, arbiters of style were scandalized and the public was also less enamored of his more elaborate entrances. In 1904 his design for the Opéra station at Place de l'Opéra was rejected and his association with the Métro ended; many of his station entrances have been demolished, including all three of the pavilion type. Those that remain are now all protected historical monuments, one has been reconstituted, and some originals and replicas also survive outside France.

Wikipedia: Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard (EN)

The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, known simply as the Fondation Cartier, is a contemporary art museum located at 261 boulevard Raspail in the 14th arrondissement of the French capital, Paris.

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The Studio Hotel building is a building, listed as a historical monument since October 25, 2001, located at 9 rue Delambre in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

Wikipedia: Immeuble Studio Hôtel (FR)