Tower 2003, Juin 21: La Tour Eiffel est une fois de plus dans

les lumières étincelantes de diamants qui sont affichées pour

une durée de cinq minutes, chaque heure, à partir de la tombée
de la nuit jusqu'à 2 heures (1 h en hiver).
Les deux faisceaux lumineux en haut de la tour on peut voir
jusqu'à 80 kilomètres de là. Le phare est composé de quatre
marins-type, des projecteurs motorisés, gérés automatiquement
par des programmes informatiques mis à l'essai. Leur rotation de
balayage est de 90 °, de sorte qu'ils sont synchronisés pour
former un double faisceau en croix pivotant autour de 360 °. Le
6000-watt lampes, qui durent environ 1.200 heures, sont
refroidies à éviter la surchauffe et chauffée lorsque la
température descend au-dessous de zéro centigrade et les
lumières sont éteintes.

Moulin rouge

Le plus célèbre cabaret du monde depuis 1889

Merci à son French Cancan, et immortalisée par le peintre
Toulouse-Lautrec, a toujours présenté des spectacles somptueux à
ses spectateurs: de la Quardrille de La Goulue et Valentin le
Desosse à la Redoutes et opérettes, de Colette à la grande
Mistinguett revues ... le concept est toujours le même à la
Moulin Rouge, les plus belles filles du monde!

De nombreuses stars internationales ont joué sur scène au Moulin

Rouge:

Ella Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Elton John ...

Ils ont tous donné des galas exceptionnels, dans le sillage de

célébrités françaises telles que: Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf.
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Louvre museum

Cet énorme édifice, construit vers 1200 comme une forteresse et

reconstruit au milieu du 16e siècle pour servir de palais royal,
a commencé sa carrière comme un musée public en 1793. Dans le
cadre de grands projets de Mitterrand, le Louvre a été remanié
dans les années 1980 avec l'ajout d'un 21-mètres de la pyramide
de verre d'entrée. Initialement considéré comme un échec, le
nouveau modèle a depuis gagné plus de ceux qui considèrent que
la cohérence inexcusablement ennuyeux.
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Arc de Triomphe:

C'est de l'Arc de Triomphe, un 16-histoire monument conçu par

Napoléon, conçu par l'architecte Jean-François Chalgrin, et
construit dans le haut de l'avenue des Champs-Elysées. Il a été
construit entre 1810 et 1836.
Il est possible d'atteindre le toit du monument par l'escalade
près de trois cents pas, et la vue est excellente. Je n'ai pas
été là-bas très souvent, mais j'ai quelques belles photos de
plusieurs rues de Paris prises par le haut de l'arche, y compris
une photo de la avenues menant à la Défense, une photo de
l'avenue Foch, et une photo de la toujours populaire Champs-
Elysées.
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This enormous building, constructed around 1200 as a fortress and
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career as a public museum in 1793. As part of Mitterand's grands
projets, the Louvre was revamped in the 1980s with the addition of a
21-metre glass pyramid entrance. Initially deemed a failure, the new
design has since won over those who regard consistency as
AR inexcusably boring.

Vast scrums of people puff and pant through the rooms full of paintings,
sculptures and antiquities, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and
the Winged Victory (which looks like it's been dropped and put back
AR together). If the clamour becomes unbearable, your best bet is to pick a
period or section of the Louvre and pretend that the rest is somewhere
across town.

Hubert Robert's great work was the realization of the Louvre Museum.
A comparison of two of his paintings, the first showing a ruined barrel-
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saint martin immediately reveals the source of the idea for the top lighting and the "antique effect" that the newly designed
gallery is open to the sky. The sublimity of antique ruins was to be transferred to the real building, and this in
Goerges Pompidou turn was to be a treasure chest of art and a worthy successor to its antique models.
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1889: During the evening of the tower's inauguration, 10,000 gas street
AR lamps adorned the steeple and platforms. Two projectors on the tower
top illuminated the other Parisian monuments below. The blue, white
and red beacon lights were considered the most powerful in the world.

1900: Electricity arrives at the Eiffel Tower, as 3,200 lamps spotlight its
AR framework and decorative arches.

1925-1936: André Citroën adds the first decorative lighting display to

the tower. As an ad campaign, the name Citroën is sculpted from
250,000 colored lamps, which adorns three sides of the tower and is
AR visible 30 kilometers away.

1985, New Year's Eve: Inauguration of a new lighting system, the final
phase of a comprehensive restoration program, initiated by the city of
Paris in 1980. The gold-toned, twinkling lighting system comprises 352
ment : sodium lamps mounted on the inside of the tower.

saint martin 2000, New Year's Day: The Eiffel Tower is adorned in festive lighting
Goerges Pompidou composed of 20,000 spots and a beacon projector on the tower top.

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minutes, every hour on the hour, from dusk until 2 a.m. (1 a.m. in winter).
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sweep is 90°, so they are synchronized to form a double beam in a cross that pivots around 360°. The 6,000-
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This is the Arc de Triomphe, a 16-story war monument conceived by
AR Napoleon, designed by architect Jean-François Chalgrin, and built at
the top of the avenue des Champs-Elysees. It was constructed
between 1810 and 1836.
It is possible to reach the roof of the monument by climbing nearly three
hundred steps, and the view is excellent. I haven't been up there very
AR often, but I do have some nice photos of several Paris streets taken
from the top of the arch, including a photo of the avenues leading to La
Defense, a photo of the Avenue Foch, and a photo of the ever-popular
Champs-Elysees.

AR The arch is surrounded by a huge vehicular roundabout. Some tourists

foolishly try to cross the roundabout in front of hundreds of cars in order
to get to the monument. The seasoned habitués of the city know that
there is an underground pedestrian walkway on the northern side of the
Champs-Elysees that provides safe access to the monument.
This monument, like so many others, is intended to glorify war and
ment : those who died waging it. Beneath the arch lies the tombe du soldat
inconnu (“tomb of the unknown soldier”), and a flame of remembrance
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Goerges Pompidou location to commemorate the many and varied massacres that have colored French and world history.

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The most famous cabaret in the world since 1889
AR Thanks to its French Cancan, and immortalized by the painter
Toulouse-Lautrec, has always presented sumptuous shows to its
spectators: from the Quardrille of La Goulue and Valentin le Desosse to
the Redoutes and Operettas, from Colette to Mistinguett's great
revues... the concept is still the same at the Moulin Rouge, most
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Many international stars have performed on stage at the Moulin Rouge:

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