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The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ palɛ de ʃɑ̃z‿elize]; English: Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as the Grand Palais, is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France.
Palais (French pronunciation:) may refer to: Dance hall, popularly a palais de danse, in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK; Palais, French for palace. Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées; Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris; Palais River in the French département of Deux-Sèvres
Grand Palais. The Réunion des Musées Nationaux (French pronunciation: [ʁeynjɔ̃ de myze nɑsjɔno]; abbr. RMN) is a French cultural umbrella organisation, an établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC), formed in 2011, through the merger of the Paris National Museums and the Grand Palais.
Château de Versailles. A château (French pronunciation:; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
Grand Palais National Galleries. The Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (French pronunciation: [ɡalʁi nɑsjɔnal dy ɡʁɑ̃ palɛ]; transl. Grand Palais National Galleries) are museum spaces located in the Grand Palais in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
The Palais-Royal (French: [pa.lɛ ʁwa.jal]) is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu from about 1633 to 1639 by architect Jacques ...
c. 1900 – Two quadrigas on the Grand Palais in Paris, the work of French sculptor Georges Récipon; 1904 [11] – Victory and Progress, horse-drawn chariots by J. Massey Rhind on the Wayne County Building in Detroit, Michigan, though each of the two chariots is drawn by three instead of the customary four horses.
Palais de Justice of Paris, France Palace of Versailles. In France there has been a clear distinction between a château and a palais. The palace has always been urban, like the Palais de la Cité in Paris, which was the royal palace of France and is now the supreme court of justice of France, or the palace of the Popes at Avignon.