TEC4598254: The Palais des Etudes of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Architects Felix Duban (1797-1872) and Francois Debret (1777-1850), reconstructions 1816. The building occupies what remains of the convent of the Petites Augustins (17th century) and the hotel de Chimay (1635), to which buildings were assistant in the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598269: The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Architects Felix Duban (1797-1872) and Francois Debret (1777-1850), reconstructions 1816. The building occupies what remains of the convent of the Petites Augustins (17th century) and the hotel de Chimay (1635), to which buildings were assistant in the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595597: Pont Alexandre III seen from Paris 8th arrondissement. Tsar Alexander III of Russia (1845-1894) laid the first stone of the bridge in 1886, which was to be completed for the 1900 World Expo. One of the most beautiful bridges in Paris has a single-flight metal structure. Ingenieurs Jean Resal and Amedee Alby, architects Cassien Bernard and Gaston Cousin. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4597420: The Felix Potin building, 140 rue de Rennes and rue Blaise Desgoffe, Paris 6th arrondissement. Built in 1904, made of reinforced concrete by the architect Paul Auscher (1866-1932), this seven-storey building consists of supply shops and sales to the public (ground floor and floor), offices and housing on floors. The corner turret is crowned with an evide bell tower where you can read the name of Felix Potin. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4597563: The Felix Potin building, 140 rue de Rennes and rue Blaise Desgoffe, Paris 6th arrondissement. Built in 1904, made of reinforced concrete by the architect Paul Auscher (1866-1932), this seven-storey building consists of supply shops and sales to the public (ground floor and floor), offices and housing on floors. The corner turret is crowned with an evide bell tower where you can read the name of Felix Potin. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595021: Fouquet's avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th round. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598009: Le Cafe de Flore, 172 boulevard Saint Germain, Paris 6th arrondissement. The Cafe de Flore appeared at the beginning of the 3rd Republic, probably in 1887. It owes its name to a sculpture of the little deity standing on the other side of the boulevard. At the end of the 19th century, Charles Maurras installed on the first floor, redigested his book Sous le signe de Flore / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598514: Andromede Mission - Return of C.Haignere - Andromede mission - Claudie Haignere - The Andromede mission took place from 21 to 31 October 2001 on board the ISS (the International Space Station). Claudie Haignere was the first European woman to work on the ISS. Date of this shot: Tuesday, 31 October 2001 at 06:00 local time (Kazakhstan). From 21 to 31 October 2001 Claudie Haignere participated as first female European astronaut in a 'taxi flight' to the International Space Station as Soyuz Flight Engineer. This “” Andromede”” mission had two main purposes: to exchange the Soyuz spacecraft used as a crew escape vehicle, and to carry out a scientific and technical research programme organized by the French space agency CNES during her eight day - stay onboard the International Space Station / Bridgeman Images