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LBY4572736: Les Catacombes, Paris 14th arrondissement. The origin of the catacombs dates back to the end of the 18th century, and collected all the bones found in the soil of Paris until around 1950. Anonymity is complete. It is estimated that six million of the individuals whose remains were collected in the catacombs. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4573235: La Defense de Paris, sculpture (1883) by Louis Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), a la Defense (Hauts de Seine). In 1878, the general council of the department of the Seine decided on a contest for a monument to the defense of Paris in 1870. Barrrias's work was retained and inaugurated in 1883 at the roundabout of Courbevoie, representing a bronze allegory: the City of Paris, a young mobile guard and a girl symbolizing the innocent civilian population. in order to carry out the renovation work of the neighbourhood, the year of its centenary in 1983, it returned to its place in the centre of the neighbourhood to which it gave its name. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4573292: The Dome Imax (2001) in La Defense (Hauts de Seine), houses a 467-seat hemispheric cinema room, the screen measures 1144 square meters. Architects Jean Paul Viguier, Philippe Chaix and Jean Paul Morel. Photography 10/05/05., Chaix, Philippe (b.1949) & Morel, Jean-Paul (b.1948) / Bridgeman Images
LBY4583629: Chateau de Chambord (Loir et Cher). From 1519 and for more than thirty years, 1800 workers worked in the construction of Chambord. If the shadow of Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, 1452-1519) friend of the king and official architect hovers on the surprising double-revolution staircase, the author of this strange, yet uninhabitable residence is unknown., Boegly, Luc / Bridgeman Images