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Illustration - Aerial View of France

FRANCE. PARIS (75) LOUIS VUITTON FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, SOUTH FACADE. IN THE BACKGROUND, THE NORTHERN PART OF THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY OF NEUILLY (IN THE CENTER) AND THE BUSINESS DISTRICT OF LA DEFENSE (ON THE LEFT) AT THE REQUEST OF BERNARD ARNAULT (BOSS OF LVMH), FRANK GEHRY, THE ARCHITECT IMAGINED AN ICEBERG PLACED ON THE WATER, WRAPPED IN TWELVE IMMENSE GLASS SAILS, WHICH SEEM INFLATED BY THE WIND AND PLAY WITH THE LIGHT AND THE SKY. . 40M HIGH, THIS 11,000 M2 BUILDING IS A FORMIDABLE TECHNICAL FEAT THAT OVERTURNS THE PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE: NO LESS THAN THIRTY PATENTS HAVE BEEN FILED, A RECORD Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) VERSAILLES. CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES. OVERVIEW OF THE PALACE AND THE CITY OF VERSAILLES FROM THE NORTH WEST. IN THE GRAND PARC DE VERSAILLES, DESIGNED AND FURNISHED BY ANDRE LE NOTRE, THE ORDER AND SYMMETRY CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FRENCH GARDEN STILL REIGN. THE SURFACE AREA OF THE GARDENS HAS INCREASED FROM 6,600 HECTARES TO 500 TODAY. ON THE RIGHT, THE WATERBEDS AND THE LATONA BASIN. ON THE LEFT, THE GROVE OF THE THREE FOUNTAINS. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) VERSAILLES CASTLE. THE ROYAL COURT Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE.YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES: AERIAL VIEW OF THE ROYAL EMBLEMS ADORNING THE ROYAL GATE, AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE PALACE: CLOSED CROWN, LAUREL LEAVES, MEDALLION AND CROSS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) VERSAILLES CASTLE , SOUTH FRONT : DETAIL OF CARVED SCENES Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) THE CHAPEL OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES. AT THE END OF HIS REIGN, LOUIS XIV WANTED TO BUILD A CHAPEL WORTHY OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION. WE OWE THIS MASTERPIECE TO MANSART. LOUIS XIV DID NOT ENTER THE BUILDING UNTIL 1710, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETED. HE WAS THEN 72 YEARS OLD. IT WAS THE LAST BUILDING CONSTRUCTED AT VERSAILLES DURING HIS REIGN. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES. THE GALERIE DES GLACES (HALL OF MIRRORS), DECORATIVE MASTERPIECE WHOSE REALIZATION WAS DIRECTED BY LE BRUN, RECEIVING THE LAST LIGHTS OF THE SETTING SUN Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES. THE BUST OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, MARBLE COURTYARD Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES. PORTRAIT OF ANDRE LE NOTRE. ANDRE LE NOTRE, GARDENER TO THE SUN KING, IS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS GEOMETRIC PERSPECTIVES, FOR HIS GRAND AXES THAT GIVE THE GARDENS THEIR GRANDEUR, AND FOR HIS SECONDARY VISTAS THAT OFFER WALKERS EVER-CHANGING PLEASURES FOR THE EYE. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES. ON THE ESPLANADE OF THE WEST FACADE, THE BASIN OF THE PARTERRE D'EAU, SURROUNDED BY BRONZE STATUES SYMBOLIZING THE RIVERS AND RIVERS OF FRANCE: HERE, THAT OF THE SEINE BY ETIENNE LE HONGRE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES. AERIAL VIEW OF THE EASTERN FACADE WITH, IN THE FOREGROUND, THE ENTRANCE TO THE CASTLE AND THE ROYAL GATE, THEN THE COURT OF MINISTERS, THE ROYAL COURT AND THE MARBLE COURT. IN THE BACKGROUND, THE GRAND PERSPECTIVE OF THE GARDENS, OVERLOOKING THE GRAND CANAL Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES: AN ANTIQUE BUST OF A WOMAN IN MARBLE IN THE ROUND, MADE AROUND 1670, OVERSEES THE WELL-NAMED MARBLE COURTYARD, A DAZZLING SHOWCASE OF MATERIALS AND INFINITE PLAY OF COLORS Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES: FACING THE RISING SUN, SILHOUETTE OF THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF LOUIS XIV. COMMISSIONED BY LOUIS-PHILIPPE, IT WAS MADE BY CARTELLIER AND PETITOT AND ERECTED IN 1836 Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES: AERIAL VIEW OF THE WESTERN FACADE OF THE CASTLE. THE FLAT ITALIAN ROOF IS CONCEALED BY A BALUSTRADE LINED WITH TROPHIES AND VASES. THE AVANT-CORPS, SURMOUNTED BY STATUES OF DIANA AND APOLLO AS WELL AS THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, WAS RESERVED FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES: AERIAL VIEW OF THE MARBLE COURTYARD. AT THE TIME OF THE SUN KING, VERSAILLES LIVED BY THE TIME OF THIS CLOCK WITH THE MASK OF APOLLO, AN IDEALIZED IMAGE OF LOUIS XIV, WHICH OVERLOOKS THE KING'S BEDROOM. THE SCULPTED ELEMENTS WERE MADE BY MARSY IN 1679, AFTER A DRAWING BY LE BRUN. THEY REPRESENT FRANCE RESTING AFTER ITS VICTORY OVER ITS ENEMIES, SYMBOLIZED BY THE DRAGON. ON THE LEFT, HERCULES SEATED ON A DRAGON. ON THE RIGHT, MARS AND A RAM AT REST Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) PALACE OF VERSAILLES: IN THE GRAND PERSPECTIVE OF THE AXIS OF THE SUN, AERIAL PICTURE OF THE APOLLON BASIN AND THE GRAND CANAL Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) CASTLE OF VERSAILLES. AERIAL VIEW OF THE BASIN OF LATONE, MOTHER OF DIANE AND APOLLO (WHICH SHE HOLDS WITH HER). SHEPHERDS HAVING PREVENTED HIS CHILDREN FROM PLAYING IN THE WATER OF A SPRING, LATONE, MAD WITH RAGE, TRANSFORMED THE IMPORTONES INTO FROGS Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES: STATUARY ENSEMBLE OF THE CHAPEL. THE FOUR EVANGELISTS: SAINT JOHN, SAINT MARK, SAINT LUKE AND SAINT MATHIEU. BELOW, THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF LOUIS XIV. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) AERIAL VIEW OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES. MARBLE COURTYARD. DURING THE REIGN OF THE SUN KING, VERSAILLES LIVED BY THE TIME SHOWN ON THIS CLOCK FEATURING A MASK OF APOLLO, AN IDEALIZED IMAGE OF LOUIS XIV, WHICH OVERLOOKS THE KING'S BEDROOM. THE SCULPTED ELEMENTS WERE CREATED BY MARSY IN 1679, BASED ON A DESIGN BY LE BRUN. THEY REPRESENT FRANCE RESTING AFTER ITS VICTORY OVER ITS ENEMIES, SYMBOLIZED BY THE DRAGON. ON THE LEFT, HERCULES SITS ON A DRAGON. ON THE RIGHT, MARS AND A RAM REST. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES: BOXWOOD DECORATIONS ON THE SOUTHERN PARTERRE DESIGNED BY LE NOTRE WITH, IN THE FOREGROUND, THE FLEUR-DE-LIS, SYMBOL OF ROYALTY. IN THE BACKGROUND, THE ORANGERY AND THE SUISSES WATER FEATURE. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) AERIAL VIEW OF THE WEST FACADE OF THE CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES. IN THE FOREGROUND, THE BASIN OF LATONE (MOTHER OF DIANA AND APOLLO, WHICH SHE HOLDS WITH HER). SHEPHERDS HAVING PREVENTED HIS CHILDREN FROM PLAYING NEAR A SPRING, LATONE, MAD WITH RAGE, TRANSFORMED THE IMPORTONES INTO FROGS (SCULPTURES THAT YOU SEE ALL AROUND) Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE; YVELINES (78) THE CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES HALFWAY UP, IN A CAPTIVE BALLOON. IN THE GRAND PARC DE VERSAILLES DESIGNED AND LAID OUT BY ANDRE LE NOTRE, THE ORDER AND SYMMETRY CHARACTERISTIC OF THE GARDEN STILL REIGN. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE. YVELINES (78) AERIAL VIEW OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES. FROM THE SOUTH-EAST, THE MARBLE COURTYARD, A DAZZLING SHOWCASE OF CONTRASTING MATERIALS AND COLOUR SCHEMES. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES - ROYAL COURT: CITY SIDE, SOUTH FACADE OF THE COURT, WING OF THE MINISTERS: ADORNING THE UPPER GRID OF THE CENTRAL PORTAL, REPRESENTATION OF KING LOUIS XIV IN THE SUN, PRODUCED IN 1679. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES - COUR DE MARBRE: ON THE BALCONY RAILING OF THE KING'S BEDROOM, ROYAL EMBLEMS: HEAD OF APOLLO, LILIES, CLOSED CROWN. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: AERIAL VIEW OF CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF LOUIS XIV. COMMISSIONED BY LOUIS-PHILIPPE, IT WAS PRODUCED BY CARTELLIER AND PETITOT AND ERECTED IN 1836. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES - COUR DE MARBRE: GENERAL VIEW FROM THE GABRIEL WING. EIGHTEEN STATUES REPRESENTING THE ROYAL VIRTUES AND THE PARTS OF THE WORLD ADORN THE BALUSTRADE. IN THE CORNER, THE STATUE OF PEACE. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Versailles

FRANCE - ILE DE FRANCE - YVELINES (78) - VERSAILLES: CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES - COUR DE MARBRE: GENERAL VIEW FROM THE GABRIEL WING. EIGHTEEN STATUES REPRESENTING THE ROYAL VIRTUES AND THE PARTS OF THE WORLD ADORN THE BALUSTRADE. IN THE CORNER, THE STATUE OF PEACE. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Louvre - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) AERIAL VIEW OF THE LOUVRE MUSEUM. THE PYRAMID AT THE TOP OF THE SULLY PAVILION WITH THE TUILERIES GARDENS IN THE BACKGROUND AND, IN THE BACKGROUND, ON THE LEFT, THE EIFFEL TOWER Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Louvre - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) LOUVRE MUSEUM (AERIAL VIEW). STATUE OF VAUBAN SEBASTIEN LE PRESTRE, MARQUIS DE VAUBAN, GENERALLY KNOWN ONLY BY THE NAME OF VAUBAN, IS A FRENCH ENGINEER, MILITARY ARCHITECT, TOWN PLANNER, HYDRAULIC ENGINEER AND ESSAYIST. HE WAS NAMED MARSHAL OF FRANCE BY KING LOUIS XIV Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Louvre - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) LOUVRE MUSEUM (AERIAL VIEW) Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Louvre - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) LOUVRE MUSEUM (AERIAL VIEW). THE PYRAMID ABOVE THE SULLY PAVILION Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Louvre - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) AERIAL VIEW OF THE LOUVRE MUSEUM. THE PYRAMID AT THE TOP OF THE SULLY PAVILION WITH THE TUILERIES GARDENS IN THE BACKGROUND AND, IN THE BACKGROUND, ON THE LEFT, THE EIFFEL TOWER Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Louvre - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) GENERAL VIEW OF WEST PARIS Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. LORRAINE. MOSELLE (57) CATTENOM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (ARCHIVES, 2003): THE REACTOR VESSEL COVER HAD MICRO-CRACKS AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED: A DELICATE OPERATION THAT WE FOLLOWED EXCLUSIVELY. FIRST STEP: THE NEW COVER ENTERS THE REACTOR BUILDING (OR BR, IN EDF JARGON) THROUGH THE EQUIPMENT AIRLOCK. WITH A DIAMETER OF 8 METRES, THIS AIRLOCK IS SEALED BY 164 ENORMOUS BOLTS. OPENING IT TAKES THREE HOURS OF WORK! Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. LORRAINE. MOSELLE (57) CATTENOM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (ARCHIVES, 2003): INTERIOR OF REACTOR BUILDING NO. 4. THE REACTOR VESSEL COVER HAD MICRO-CRACKS AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED: A DELICATE OPERATION THAT WE FOLLOWED EXCLUSIVELY. FIRST STEP: THE NEW COVER ENTERS THE REACTOR BUILDING (OR BR, IN EDF JARGON) THROUGH THE EQUIPMENT AIRLOCK. WITH A DIAMETER OF 8 METRES, THIS AIRLOCK IS SEALED BY 164 ENORMOUS BOLTS. OPENING IT TAKES THREE HOURS OF WORK! Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Nuclear Power Plants

FRANCE. AIN (01) AERIAL VIEW OF BUGEY NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SAINT-VULBAS VILLAGE. FOUR AIRCOOLING TOWERS (128 M. HEIGHT, 104 M. WIDTH) FROM LARINA ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE (HIERES SUR AMBY VILLAGE AT FIRST) Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Paris

FRANCE.HAUTS-DE-SEINE (92) COURBEVOIE. BECON PARK. THE BRITISH INDIA PAVILION IS AN OLD PAVILION BUILT FOR THE 1878 WORLD EXHIBITION IN PARIS. DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT CASPAR PURDON CLARKE TO HOME THE PRINCE OF WALES' PERSONAL COLLECTIONS. THE INDIAN PAVILION IS A BRITISH EMBLEM. IT ATTRACTS CROWDS WITH MORE THAN 16 MILLION VISITORS Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Paris

FRANCE.HAUTS-DE-SEINE (92) COURBEVOIE. BECON PARK. AERIAL VIEW OF THE BRITISH INDIA PAVILION IS AN OLD PAVILION BUILT FOR THE 1878 WORLD EXHIBITION IN PARIS. DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT CASPAR PURDON CLARKE TO HOME THE PRINCE OF WALES' PERSONAL COLLECTIONS. THE INDIAN PAVILION IS A BRITISH EMBLEM. IT ATTRACTS CROWDS WITH MORE THAN 16 MILLION VISITORS Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Orleans

FRANCE. LOIRET (45) ORLEANS, WHERE JOAN OF ARC'S ARMY DEFEATED THE ENGLISH ON MAY 8, 1429: AT THE CITY'S FINE ARTS MUSEUM, LITHOGRAPH BY THE ENTRANCE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Orleans

FRANCE. LOIRET (45) ORLEANS, WHERE JOAN OF ARC'S ARMY DEFEATED THE ENGLISH ON MAY 8, 1429: AT THE CITY'S FINE ARTS MUSEUM, PAINTING OF THE MAID DATING FROM 1581 (ANONYMOUS AUTHOR). Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Orleans

FRANCE. LOIRET (45) ORLEANS. EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF JOAN OF ARC CREATED BY DENIS FOYATIER AND ERECTED IN PLACE DU MARTROI. WHERE JOAN OF ARC'S ARMY DEFEATED THE ENGLISH ON 8 MAY 1429. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Orleans

FRANCE. LOIRET (45) ORLEANS, WHERE JOAN OF ARC'S ARMY DEFEATED THE ENGLISH ON 8 MAY 1429: REBUILT IN 1965, THE HOUSE OF JACQUES BOUCHER, TREASURER TO THE DUKE OF ORLEANS, WHERE JOAN OF ARC LIVED DURING HER STAY IN THE CITY FROM 29 APRIL TO 9 MAY 1429. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM