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The Palais de la Cité (French pronunciation: [palɛ d(ə) la site]), located on the Île de la Cité in the Seine River in the centre of Paris, is a major historic building that was the residence of the Kings of France from the sixth century until the 14th century, and has been the center of the French justice system ever since, thus often referred to as the Palais de Justice.
Place Bellecour ( French pronunciation: [plas bɛlkuʁ]) is a large square in the centre of Lyon, France, to the north of the Ainay district. Measuring 312 m by 200 m (6.2 ha or 15 acres), [1] it is one of the largest open squares (without any patches of greenery or trees) in Europe, and the third biggest square in France, behind the Place des ...
The BEL 20 is the benchmark stock market index of Euronext Brussels. It tracks the performance of 20 most capitalized and liquid stocks traded in Belgium. In general, the index consists of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 companies traded at the Brussels Stock Exchange. Since 20 June 2011, the BEL20 has contained 20 listings, with the ...
Cour Carrée. Coordinates: 48.860399°N 2.338644°E. An 1866 map of the Medieval Louvre Castle and the Cour Carrée. The Cour Carrée (Square Court) is one of the main courtyards of the Louvre Palace in Paris. The wings surrounding it were built gradually, as the walls of the medieval Louvre were progressively demolished in favour of a ...
The Louvre's pavillon de l'Horloge, refaced in the 1850s at the eastern end of the Nouveau Louvre. The expansion of the Louvre under Napoleon III in the 1850s, known at the time and until the 1980s as the Nouveau Louvre or Louvre de Napoléon III, was an iconic project of the Second French Empire and a centerpiece of its ambitious transformation of Paris.
Mohammed Bedjaoui ( Arabic: محمد بجاوي) (born September 21, 1929 in Sidi Bel-Abbes) is an Algerian diplomat and jurist. [1] He served as Algeria's ambassador to France and the United Nations among other places. He also served as a judge on the International Court of Justice and as President of the Constitutional Council, Algeria's ...
Louis Le Vau opened up the interior court of the Château de Versailles to create the expansive entrance cour d'honneur, subsequently copied all over Europe. A court of honor ( French: cour d'honneur; German: Ehrenhof) is the principal and formal approach and forecourt of a large building. It is usually defined by two secondary wings projecting ...
Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is an art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986. It is located in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the Palais Royal in Paris, France . As described by the architectural writer Andrew Ayers, "Buren's work takes the form of a conceptual grid ...