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Tour Eiffel
The Eiffel Tower was built to stand for twenty years and be taken down.
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District guide · Paris
Paris's 7th arrondissement, situated on the Left Bank, is among the city's most affluent quarters. The Tour Eiffel and Musée d'Orsay anchor the district, while...
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Paris's 7th arrondissement, situated on the Left Bank, is among the city's most affluent quarters. The Tour Eiffel and Musée d'Orsay anchor the district, while the Hôtel des Invalides houses Napoleon's tomb. The arrondissement holds substantial appeal for those drawn to French cultural and historical landmarks.
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Tour Eiffel
The Eiffel Tower was built to stand for twenty years and be taken down.
The Musée d'Orsay is a railway station that outlived its trains. The Gare d'Orsay was built between 1898 and 1900 on the Left Bank for the Exposition Universelle, by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux, in full Beaux-Arts dress.
The Champ de Mars is a parade ground that became a lawn, and the Eiffel Tower stands at one end of it.
Hôtel des Invalides
Les Invalides was built to house disabled soldiers and ended up housing Napoleon. Louis XIV ordered it on 24 November 1670; Libéral Bruant and Jules Hardouin-Mansart designed it, and it was completed in 1706.
Assemblée nationale
The Palais Bourbon is where the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, has sat since the Revolution turned a princess's private mansion into the seat of the republic's elected chamber.
The Musee Rodin occupies the Hotel Biron, an eighteenth-century mansion on Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement that had already passed through use as a convent school before the state let it out cheaply as artists' studios in the…