A | B |
River that divides Paris | Seine |
northern half of Paris | Rive Droite |
southern half of Paris | Rive Gauche |
island where the city began | Ile de la cité |
walkways along the Seine | quais |
oldest bridge | Pont Neuf |
prettiest bridge | Pont Alexandre III |
largest art museum | Louvre |
what the Louvre is | art museum |
what the Louvre used to be | royal palace |
what's in front of the Louvre | glass pyramide |
most famous painting in the Louvre | Mona Lisa (la Joconde) |
monument built to celebrate Louis XIV's son's birth (in front of Louvre) | Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel |
the garden in front of Louvre | Jardin des Tuileries |
where the guillotine was set up during the Revolution | Place de la Concorde |
what is in the center of the Place de la Concorde | Obélisque |
gift from Egypt with no political connotation | Obélisque |
widest street in Paris | Champs-Elysées |
street that runs from Place de la Concorde to Arc de Triomphe | Champs-Elysées |
where the Tour de France ends each year | Champs-Elysées |
church that looks like Greek temple | Madeleine |
where you'd go to see ballet | Opéra |
department store | Galéries Lafayette |
modern art museum | Centre Pompidou |
fountain near Centre Pompidou | Fontaine Stfravinsky |
Spanish painter with his own museum | Picasso |
Place where Victor Hugo lived | Place des Vosges |
place where the Revolution began | Place de la Bastille |
where you could ice skate in the winter & play beach volleyball in the summer | Hôtel de Ville |
where the mayor works | Hôtel de Ville |
famous & very large cemetery | Père la Chaise |
northern most artsy area of Paris | Montmartre |
hill that a headless Saint Denis walked up just before he died | Montmartre |
White domed basilica on Montmartre | Sacré- Coeur |
Place where artists sell their work | Place du Tertre |
most modern area of Paris | Defense |
the newest & highest arch | Grande Arche de la Défense |
gothic cathedral on the island | Notre Dame |
ward off evil spirits on Notre Dame | gargoyles |
tiny church built to hold the Crown of Thorns | Sainte Chapelle |
final cell of Marie Antionette | Conciergerie |
student section of Paris | Quartier Latin |
main building of the University of Paris | Sorbonne |
garden on the Boulevard Saint-Michel | Jardin du Luxembourg |
main street in the Quartier Latin | Boulevard Saint-Michel |
art museum that used to be a train station | Musée d'Orsay |
Impressionist art museum | Musée d'Orsay |
scultor with his own museum | Rodin |
Rodin's most famous sculpture | Le Penseur (The Thinker) |
where Napoleon is buried | Invalides |
what kind of museum is in the long building of the Invalides | army |
What was les Invalides originally built as | soldier hospital |
built for the World's Fair of 1889 | Tour Eiffel |
year the Tour Eiffel was built & why this year was important | 1889- 100 year anniversay of Revolution |
underground tunnels filled with stacked up bones | Catacombes |