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Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 106 cm × 146 cm (42 in × 57 in) Location. Louvre, Paris. The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil-on-canvas painting produced c. 1636 –1638 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre, which bought it in 1972. [1] Though its commissioner is unknown, it is signed Georgius De La Tour ...
La Tour-Maubourg station. / 48.857667°N 2.310399°E / 48.857667; 2.310399. La Tour-Maubourg ( French pronunciation: [la tuʁ mobuʁ]) is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro. It is located to the northwest of Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement. It is named after the Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, which in turn is named ...
The Tour Saint-Jacques ( French pronunciation: [tuʁ sɛ̃ ʒak], 'Saint James's Tower') is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the intersection of Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la ...
La Tour d'Argent. View from the restaurant of Notre Dame and the Seine. La Tour d'Argent (English: The Silver Tower) is a historic restaurant in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located at 15 Quai de la Tournelle. It has a rating of one star from the Guide Michelin.
Paris Métro Line 3 ( French: Ligne 3 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects Pont de Levallois–Bécon station in the near northwestern suburbs to Gallieni in the east. After opening as the network's third line in 1904, it was the subject of a number of extensions, with a major restructuring occurring ...
The Tour de Nesle ( French pronunciation: [tuʁ də nɛl]) was one of the four large guard towers on the old city wall of Paris, constructed at the beginning of the 13th century by Philip II of France and demolished in 1665. The tower was situated on the left (south) bank of the Seine facing the old castle of the Louvre on the opposite bank.
Tour Jean-sans-Peur. The Tour Jean-sans-Peur or Tour de Jean sans Peur (English: Tower of John the Fearless), located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, is the last vestige of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, the residence first of the Counts of Artois and then the Dukes of Burgundy. The tower contained bed chambers and the grand stairway of the ...
Tourism in Paris is a major income source. Paris received 12.6 million visitors in 2020, measured by hotel stays, a drop of 73 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of foreign visitors declined by 80.7 percent. [1] Museums re-opened in 2021, with limitations on the number of visitors at a time and a requirement that ...