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The original café is at the Tuileries, located at 226 Rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Another boutique is at the Galeries Lafayette on the Boulevard Haussmann, and a Boutique Angelina in the shopping mall at Palais des congrès de Paris. In 2009, an Angelina café was opened at Petit Trianon in the Palace of Versailles.
L'Opéra restaurant; Polidor – historic restaurant in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, its predecessor was founded in 1845, [12] and it has had its present name since the beginning of the 20th century. La Mère Catherine – brasserie in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the oldest restaurant located at place du Tertre. [13]
The Paris Avenue was born of the Sun King's desire to build a wide, straight, tree-lined avenue leading from the Place d'Armes, to showcase the palace of Versailles by creating a perspective view. Before the avenue was built, there were only two ways to get from the village of Versailles to Paris, one of them winding to the north and the other ...
The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
Four pavilions were built for the Secretaries of State in 1671. Jules Hardouin-Mansart had the Ministers' wings built on the basis of these pavilions in 1679. [1] The soberly ornamented Ministers' Wings, attached to the château, mark the end of the era of all-powerful ministers such as Fouquet, who defied the king with the construction of his château at Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Maison de la reine and the Tour de Marlborough (left) in the hameau at the Petit Trianon park of Versailles. The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France.
The Salon d'Hercule (French pronunciation: [salɔ̃ dɛʁkyl]; also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the Royal Chapel in the North Wing of the château with the grand appartement du roi.
Stéphanie de Courtois, Le Potager du roi, The King’s Vegetable Garden. École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage and Actes Sud: Versailles and Arles, 2003. ISBN 978-2-7427-4505-0; Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie, Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage and Actes Sud: Versailles and Arles, 1999 ...