| A | B |
|---|
| le Louvre | Used to be royal palace; now a world-famous museum |
| le Centre Pompidou | modern art museum; unusual architecture |
| la Sainte Chappelle | stained glass windows; Louis IX; crown of thorns |
| la Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris | most famous gothic cathedrale in world |
| la Villette | modern park; science museum; omnimax; big mirrored sphere |
| le jardin des Tuileries | park in front of le Louvre; "garden of the kings" |
| Luxembourg | palace where French Senate meets; park on grounds is very popular with Parisians |
| le Bois de Vincennes | park to the east of Paris; former royal hunting grounds; big zoo |
| le Bois de Boulogne | big park to west of Paris; claims to be the largest park in world |
| l'Hôtel des Invalides | used to be military hospital; Napoleon's tomb; gold dome |
| la Grande Arche de la Défense | 1989; Grands Travaux; office building; white "rectangle" |
| le musée d'Orsay | used to be a train station; Impressionist paintings and sculptures displayed here |
| la tour Eiffel | built in 1889 to commemorate French Revolution; all steel; famous landmark |
| la Cathédrale de Sacré Coeur | white church that looks like the Taj Mahal; in Montmartre |
| Montmartre | neighborhood that used to be very "artsy" but is now mostly touristy |
| l'Opéra de la Bastille | "common man's opera house"; rounded mirrored exterior |
| le Pont Neuf | oldest bridge in Paris |
| l'Opéra Garnier | old opera house; famous chandelier, ceiling painting, architecture, and staircase are all very famous |
| l'Eglise de la Madeleine | church that looks like a roman temple |
| le Panthéon | famous French people buried here |
| l'Arc de Triomphe | built by Napoléon to commemorate his military victories; at the end of the Champs Elysées |
| Tomb of the Unknown Soldier | under the Arc de Triomphe |
| Lutèce | original name of Paris |
| le Palais-Royal | used to be a palace; also used to be a theatre; lots of columns in courtyard; houses Ministry of Culture |
| la Place de la Concorde | Egyptian obelisque; site of guillotine; beautiful fountains |
| Parisii | the tribe that settled Paris |
| l'Ile de la Cité | the location of the original settlement of Paris |
| le Quartier Latin | the neighborhood where the univerisity of Paris is located; lots of cafés and bookstores |
| la Seine | the river that runs through the middle of Paris |
| le Champs-Elysées | tree-lined street with lots of shopping; site of Bastille day parades and other important national events |
| Jacqes Chirac | current president of France |
| François Mitterand | former president of France; responsible for the Grands Travaux |
| le Métropolitain | the name of the subway system in Paris |
| arrondissements | the 20 neighborhoods of Paris; arranged in a spiral from the center |
| la Joconde | the Mona Lisa |
| Lionel Jospin | the current Prime Minister of France |
| Claude Monet | famous French impressionist painter |
| la Place Charles de Gaulle | circular street that goes around the Arc de Triomphe |
| les pyramides du Louvre | the entrance to the Louvre; designed by I.M. Pei |
| la rive droit | the north side of the river |
| la rive gauche | the south side of the river |
| la Sorbonne | the oldest part of the University of Paris |
