Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Paris, France

Au planteur is a former coffee, tea and chocolate merchant located in Paris, France. Its ceramic sign, depicting a slave serving his master, has been listed as a historical monument since 1984 but its presence in the public space is controversial because of its racist and colonialist aesthetic.

Wikipedia: Au Planteur (FR)

L'Arche is a work by French artist Pierre Tual. It is an abstract steel sculpture created in 1989, it is installed in Paris, France.

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Located at 6, rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, The Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires is one of ten minor basilicas located in the Île-de-France region of France. It was begun as an Abbey church, and constructed between 1629 and 1740 in the French classical style. Its name was given by King Louis XIII, who dedicated it to his victory over the Protestants at La Rochelle in 1628 during the French Wars of Religion. Notre-Dame-des-Victoires is famous for the ex voto offerings left there by the faithful. Over 37,000 devotional plaques, silver and gold hearts, as well as military decorations, have been left at the basilica. The closest Métro station is 'Bourse'.

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The Hôtel de Metz de Rosnay is a private mansion located on the Place des Victoires in Paris, France.

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Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is an art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986. It is located in the inner courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris, France.

Wikipedia: Les Deux Plateaux (EN)

The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state theatre in France to have its own permanent troupe of actors. The company's primary venue is the Salle Richelieu, which is a part of the Palais-Royal complex and located at 2, Rue de Richelieu on Place André-Malraux in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

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The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is a Parisian museum, located on rue de Rivoli, in the Marsan wing of the Louvre Palace, which aims to promote the applied fine arts and the development of links between industry and culture, creation and production. It holds one of the most important collections of decorative arts in the world. The museum pursues the objective that presided over its foundation: "to maintain in France the culture of the arts that pursue the realization of beauty in the useful".

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Bathing Woman with Raised Arms is a 1921 bronze sculpture by the French artist Aristide Maillol. Since 1964 it has been exhibited in the Jardin du Carrousel next to the Tuileries Garden.

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Pomona is a work by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. It is a bronze sculpture. Created in 1910, it is based in Paris, France.

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Summer is a work by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. It is a bronze sculpture. Created in 1910, it is based in Paris, France.

Wikipedia: L'Été (Maillol) (FR)

The Crowd is a work by British sculptor Raymond Mason located in Paris, France. Created between 1963 and 1967, it was installed in 2000 in the Tuileries Gardens. It is a bronze sculpture representing many characters.

Wikipedia: La Foule (Mason) (FR)

The Vowel Tree is a work by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, sculptor, located in Paris, France. It was created with the collaboration of Pascal Cribier, landscape architect. Installed in December 1999 in the Tuileries Gardens, it seems, at first glance, to be an uprooted tree, but it is actually a bronze cast.

Wikipedia: L'Arbre des voyelles (FR)

The Tuileries Garden is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution. Since the 19th century, it has been a place for Parisians to celebrate, meet, stroll and relax. During the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, it was the site of the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron.

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The Nymphs is a work by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. It is a bronze sculpture. Created in 1930, it is based in Paris, France.

Wikipedia: Les Nymphes (FR)

The Place du Carrousel is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, located at the open end of the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a space occupied, prior to 1883, by the Tuileries Palace. Sitting directly between the museum and the Tuileries Garden, the Place du Carrousel delineates the eastern end of the gardens just as the Place de la Concorde defines its western end.

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The Night is a work by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. It is a bronze sculpture. Created in 1909, it is based in Paris, France.

Wikipedia: La Nuit (Maillol) (FR)

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, located in the Place du Carrousel. It is an example of Neoclassical architecture in the Corinthian order. It was built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories in the Wars of the Third and Fourth Coalitions. The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, at the far end of the Champs-Élysées, is about twice the size; designed in the same year but not completed until 1836.

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The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum, allowing light to the underground visitors hall, while also allowing sight lines of the palace to visitors in the hall, and through access galleries to the different wings of the palace. Completed in 1989 as part of the broader Grand Louvre project, it has become a landmark of Paris.

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The Croix-du-Trahoir fountain is located at the crossroads of the rue de l'Arbre-Sec and rue Saint-Honoré, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It has been listed as a historical monument since February 2, 1925.

Wikipedia: Fontaine de la Croix du Trahoir (FR)

The Medici column is a monument in Paris, France, located in front of the Bourse de commerce. It has been listed since 1862 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture, and is the only remnant of the former Hôtel de Soissons.

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The Bourse de commerce is a building in Paris, originally used as a place to negotiate the trade of grain and other commodities, and used to provide services to businesses by the Paris Chamber of Commerce during the latter part of the 20th century. It has its origins in a circular wheat exchange built in 1763–67, with an open-air interior court that was later capped by a wooden dome replaced in 1811 with a copper one. In a major reconstruction in 1888–89 much of the structure was replaced, although the layout remained the same and the dome was retained albeit adding glass and a mounted canvas.

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The Nelson-Mandela Garden, formerly the Jardin des Halles, is a green space of about four hectares in the middle of the Halles district of the 1st arrondissement, in the center of the city of Paris, France. It was created in the 1980s on the site of the former Halles de Paris. The garden rests on the slab that covers the Forum des Halles, a shopping centre that also houses some cultural activities. The garden includes several lawns and numerous tree and shrub plantings. Among the remarkable elements are the Children's Garden, a tropical greenhouse buried in the basement and the Place René-Cassin which forms a small amphitheatre. A redesign of the garden, carried out in parallel with that of the Forum, began in 2010 and will be completed in 2018.

Wikipedia: Jardin Nelson-Mandela (FR)

The Forum des images, founded in 1988 under the name of Vidéothèque de Paris, is a cultural institution of the City of Paris dedicated to cinema and all forms of images. It is located in the Forum des Halles, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It has the status of an association under the law of 1901 and is currently managed by Claude Farge.

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Le Pharamond is a restaurant located on rue de la Grande-Truanderie in the Halles district of the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

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The Atelier Brancusi is a French glyptotheque that is an annex of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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The Defender of Time is an animated work by the French artist Jacques Monestier located at 8 rue Bernard-de-Clairvaux in the Horloge district, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris (France).

Wikipedia: Le_Défenseur_du_temps (FR)

The Grand Assistant is a work by the German artist Max Ernst located near the north façade of the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, at the intersection of rue Rambuteau and rue Brantôme in the Horloge district, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.

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The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.

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