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Chateau de Vincennes
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Monument
Chateau de Rambouillet
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- The Monument
The castle of Rambouillet is surrounded by a 20,000-acre forest, which is what remains of the former forest of the Yveline region.
From the time it was a fortress, the castle kept its bastions and its 14th-century keep, despite the numerous changes decided by the successive owners.
Château de Champs-sur-Marne
Château de Champs-sur-Marne
- Monument
Not far from Paris, Champs-sur-Marne is surrounded by a large track of land acquired by the financier Poisson de Bourvallais at the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
Built at the beginning of the 18th century, it belonged to the Dukes de La Vallière, who entertained the Encyclopédistes: Diderot, d’Alembert, Voltaire, etc. The Marquise de Pompadour rented it in 1757-1758. The castle was restored at the end of the 19th century by Count Louis Cahen d’Anvers. The house is situated in a long perspective with terraces running down to the Marne river.
Saint-Denis Basilica
- Monument
As early as the 5th century AD, Francs aristocrats were buried in the basilica, Dagobert was the first sovereign to be buried there in 639. Over the centuries the Saint-Denis basilica became the "King’s Cemetery". In the 13th century the necropolis character of Saint-Denis was reinforced by the introduction of sculpted tombs, their magnificent style was to evolve over the centuries. Today, 43 kings, 32 queens and 10 great servants of the kingdom of France repose in the basilica
Pantheon
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- The essence of the monument
At the summit of Saint Genevieve’s mount, at the heart of the Latin Quarter amongst a cluster of schools and universities, the Panthéon dominates Paris. For almost the entire 19th Century, well before the Eiffel Tower, Sacré Coeur de Montparnasse and the Montparnasse Tower, the Panthéon was the first building that visitors arriving in Paris from the provinces or from abroad would see, and from which it was possible to take in the entire city in one complete and exceptional view.
Conciergerie
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The monument
'Grumpies' sue over use of name
A French court has rejected an attempt by a group of people with the surname, Bougon, which means "grumpy", to change the title of a new TV comedy series.
The 60 claimants were upset at the way their name was being associated with a family of scroungers, fraudsters and alcoholics in the series, Les Bougon.
A lawyer for the real-life Bougons said they would appeal against the ruling.
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