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La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits. It is located in Île-de-France region's department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie , La Garenne-Colombes , Nanterre , and Puteaux .
Grande Arche at night. A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941–2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than ...
It is underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station is the western terminus of Métro Line 1 and connects the RER A line to the Métro Line 1 station since 1992, the Line 2 tramway since 1994 and SNCF (Transilien) train station.
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Barrias designed a sculptural group of three figures to symbolise the defence of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War: a woman standing in the uniform of the National Guard and with a mural crown on her head, leaning on a cannon and holding a flag, symbolises the city of Paris; on the ground in front, a young soldier loading his Chassepot rifle represents the service of the military; and to the ...
The Belgian Armed Forces (Dutch: Defensie; French: La Défense, German: Die Streitkräfte) [4] are the combined national military forces of Belgium.The King of the Belgians is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.
La Défense sociale et religieuse was a Catholic French newspaper, founded in May 1876 under the patronage of Bishop Dupanloup [1] and discontinued in 1887. La Défense opposed the anticlericalism of the republican elites of the Third Republic but adopted the moderate stance of its founder, Bishop Dupanloup , and thus was classified among ...
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