TEC4622298: L'Ecole polytechnique, 1 rue Descartes, Paris 5e. From its creation in 1794, the school, which took the name of Polytechnique in September 1795, was thus clearly defined. She must give her students a solid scientific training, based on mathematics, physics and chemistry, and train them to enter the special schools of the public services of the State, such as the school of application of artillery and genie, the school of mines or that of Ponts et Chaussees. To take over the students judges who were too indisciplinary outside, Napoleon decided to take over them by imposing a military regime on them in 1804. They set them up on the Sainte Genevieve Mountain, in the premises of the College of Navarre and the College of Boncourt. Place they will not leave until 1976. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622632: The gargoyles of the Hotel de Cluny in Paris. One of the most beautiful monuments of medieval civil architecture in Paris elevated to the iniative of the Abbes of Cluny by Jacques d'Amboise (around 1440 or 1450-1516), brother of the cardinal minister. Restores after the ransacks of the Revolution, it now houses collections of sculptures and art objects from the Middle Ages. Renovated since 1991, the National Museum of the Middle Ages Thermes de Cluny. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622658: The Pantheon in Paris. Construction 1757-1790, architect Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780). In 1744 Louis XV, suffering from a serious illness in Metz, would wish to erect an immense church instead of the abbey of Sainte Genevieve, which was then in ruins. When the war came, he kept his word and assigned the architect Soufflot the task of drawing the plans of the monument. A great admirer of Greek Roman architecture, he imagined a gigantic building, built on a plan of Greek cross 110 metres long, 84 metres wide and 83 metres high. At the time, the project seemed so insane that many, in the court and in the salons of the capital, would question Soufflot's abilities and prevent the collapse of the monument. Louis XV confirmed his confidence in the architect and laid the foundation stone in 1764 during a grand ceremony. In 1806, the Pantheon, like all the churches in France closed during the revolution, was restored to its original name of Sainte Genevieve church. Renamed Pantheon in 1830, the building regained its vocation as a laique and patriotic temple. Headquarters to the insurgents of the Commune in 1871, during which Milliere was shot on the steps, the building was definitively transformed into a Republican monument in 1885, during the funeral of Victor Hugo. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4605077: Square du Vert Galant (Vert-Galant), Ile de la Cite, Paris. And the new bridge, architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, construction 1578-1604. The oldest bridge in Paris. Henry III laid the first stone in 1578. Interrupted between 1588 and 1599 by civil wars, it was not inaugurated until 1607 by Henry IV. In 1854 candelabres were installed by Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4605394: Pol Bury's spheres (1985) at the Palais Royal in Paris. Pol Bury's two slowly moving horizontal fountains with metal balls were placed in 1985 on the court of Orleans, between the Constitutional Council and the Ministry of Culture. Photography 23/02/05., Bury, Pol (1922-2005) / Bridgeman Images