Many beautiful words described the Eiffel Tower during the centuries. Its very name comes from one who constructed it and made it the most important achievement of his career, Gustav Eiffel (1832-1923). The work on the foundations commenced in the winter of 1887 (January 26 ); imagine that back then ...
This enormous building, constructed around 1200 as a fortress and rebuilt in the mid-16th century for use as a royal palace, began its career as a public museum in 1793. As part of Mitterand's grands projets, the Louvre was revamped in the 1980s with the addition of a 21-metre glass pyramid entrance. ...
The most famous cabaret in the world since 1889
Thanks to its French Cancan, and immortalized by the painter Toulouse-Lautrec, has always presented sumptuous shows to its spectators: from the Quardrille of La Goulue and Valentin le Desosse to the Redoutes and Operettas, from Colette to Mistinguett's ...
Geography
France is about 80% the size of Texas. In the Alps near the Italian and Swiss borders is western Europe's highest point—Mont Blanc (15,781 ft; 4,810 m). The forest-covered Vosges Mountains are in the northeast, and the Pyrénées are along the Spanish border. Except for extreme ...
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