TEC4604867: Pont des Arts Pont des Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement, reconstruction in 1981 by Louis Arretche. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604884: Pont des Arts Pont des Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement, reconstruction in 1981 by Louis Arretche. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622311: Church of Notre Dame du Val de Grace in Paris. The church is the fruit of the wish of Queen Anne of Austria to raise a beautiful temple to God if he sent her a son. After twenty-three years of marriage, in 1638, the future Louis XIV was born, who laid the first stone on 1 April 1645 and the construction ended at the end of the 1660s with sculptural and pictorial decoration. The works were first entrusted to Mansart, to which Le Mercier was succeeded, having worked notably at the Hotel de St Aignan and the Bibliotheque of Mazarin, and then Le Muet, who attended Le Duc. In 1649, the disturbances of the Fronde led to a long interruption of work, which did not resume until 1655. Photography 10/08/98. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622325: Grande Mosquee de Paris, 2 bis place du Puits de l'Hermit. In a Moorish Hispano style with predominance of Maghreb influences in its interior decoration. The 33-metre high minaret rises above the Muslim tower. Construction 1922-1926, architects Robert Fournez, Charles Heubes and Maurice Mantout. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622431: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement.The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622445: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement.The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622454: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement.The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622459: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement.The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622482: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement. The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622625: The Pantheon in Paris. Construction 1757-1790, architect Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780). In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Soufflot the task of drawing the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622629: The Pantheon in Paris. Construction 1757-1790, architect Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780). In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Soufflot the task of drawing the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622685: Le Pantheon (1757-1790), Paris 5e. In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Jacques Germain Soufflot the task of drawing up the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622713: The gargoyles of the Hotel de Cluny in Paris. One of the most beautiful monuments of medieval civil architecture in Paris elevated to the iniative of the Abbes of Cluny by Jacques d'Amboise (around 1440 or 1450-1516), brother of the cardinal minister. Restores after the ransacks of the Revolution, it now houses collections of sculptures and art objects from the Middle Ages. Renovated since 1991, the National Museum of the Middle Ages Thermes de Cluny. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622719: The Pantheon in Paris. Construction 1757-1790, architect Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780). In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Soufflot the task of drawing the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images