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Dec/15/2007 Event in PARIS
from the
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13 /
2007 to the
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2008
Gustave Courbet
French painter who led the Realist movement in XIXth-century French painting.
Best known as an innovator in Realism, Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes.
It has to be said that the artist was not amongst those who never voiced their opinions and lived quietly. Gustave Courbet was a politically active French realist painter and one of the most powerful and also complex painters of the 19th century.
Towards the end of the 1860s, Courbet painted a series of increasingly erotic works, culminating in The Origin of the World (L'Origine du monde) (1866), depicting female genitalia, and The Sleepers (1866), featuring two women in bed. While banned from public display, the works served to increase his notoriety.
Thirty years after the last big monographic exhibition in Paris, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais are presenting over 120 paintings, some 30 graphic works and around 60 photos.
Examples of subjects to be addressed: the interpretation of hunting scenes, the relationships between the newly emerging art of photography and the work of Courbet, and its decisive influence on artists of his time…Lots of new discoveries in store at the Grand Palais, this autumn!
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Paris hosts 180 museums and sights open to the public, mostly from 10am to 6pm. Some propose a late opening on one day. National museums are closed on Tuesdays, except Versailles and Orsay closed on Monday.
For 1, 3, 5 days, the "Cartes Musées et Monuments" gives the bearer unlimited free access to 70 museums and monuments in Paris. No waiting line, either to buy tickets or to enter the place. The card can be purchased at any of the city's museums and monuments as well as main metro stations. Batobus stops, FNAC ticket counters and also at the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau. |
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Bastille Quarter & Bastille Opera
Landmark of the French Revolution better known
today as a hip district hosting the new opéra.
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Place des Vosges/Le Marais
A famous early 17th century
square with some of the most beautiful parisian apartments
in the middle of a middle-age district.
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Saint Sulpice Church
The Church of Saint Sulpice, the famous location of the Da Vinci Code.
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Montparnasse
The famous left bank district where the Montparnasse tower and station are located.
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Latin Quarter - Saint Germain des Pres
The "Intellectual" and new fashion district !
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Notre Dame
The major french
religious building, masterpiece of gothic architecture.
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Eiffel Tower
The Paris' landmark : in 1889
Gustave Eiffel gave the French flag a 300 m (984 ft.) pole
to commemorate the revolution centenary.
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Arc de Triomphe
This arch was built in memory
of Napoléon's Great Army at the top of the Champs-Elysées.
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Champs Elysees
The triumphal avenue aiming
toward the Arc de Triomphe.
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La Concorde
This vast and elegant symbol
of reconciliation after the revolution displays the 3000
years old Luxor's obelisk.
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La Madeleine
Neo-Greek temple ordered by
Napoleon in homage to its Great Army, today a rich catholic
parish.
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Invalides
The major dome of Paris hosting
Napoleon's ashes is part of a majestic hospital ordered
by the Sun-king.
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Opera
Two
operas : the original one built by Garnier in 1875 &
Opera Bastille from 1989.
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La Defense
The 21 st century skyscrapers
business district erected outside the western city-limits
of Paris was recently enriched by the spectacular Grande
Arche.
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Disneyland Paris
The first leisure/theme park
of Europe.
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Versailles
The Sun-king palace in Versailles
is half an hour by train from Paris.
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