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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

Cabourg

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Description

Cabourg is located in Normandy