Versailles is the most beautiful palace in the world, and should be visited at least once in your life. 63,000 m2 and over 2,300 rooms for the château, 800 hectares for the park... It's immense, yet so much volume is not too much to take in over 7,000,000 people a year.
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One of the beauties of France is its art of gardens. In Versailles, but also in Paris in the Jardin des Tuileries or the Jardin du Luxembourg, or even in Vaux le Vicomte, in Chantilly and in many castles, the gardens are, in themselves, a reason to come. So much beauty that we owe, for the most famous parks in France, to André Le Nôtre: the gardener of the Sun King.
The Eiffel Tower is the most beautiful work of a passionate engineer named Gustave Eiffel. We owe him many works, especially bridges, and not only in France. This Tower, very criticized in its time by a part of the French, became the emblem of Paris. Here is its history in a few words.
This is the most sacred place in Paris: the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Since 1923, every evening and for the great moments of the Nation, the flame of the Unknown Soldier is revived. An unidentifiable soldier, who we are sure is French, is the only thing we know about this man who was chosen by a young soldier: Auguste THIN.
If France is so famous in gastronomy, it is because it has seen the birth of great culinary talents. Among these talents, there is the astonishing Antonin CAREME, nicknamed "the king of cooks and the cook of kings" because he cooked for Napoleon 1st, but also a king of England and a Tsar of Russia...
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Paris and Ile de France
"Les invalides" in Paris: what to see? Which history?
Jérôme Prod'homme
It is one of the most beautiful monuments in Paris. It was even for a long time the highest with 107 on top of the famous dome: the Hotel des Invalides. A monument that we owe to the will of Louis XIV, which became the place of Napoleon's tomb, and the place in which the Nation pays tribute to its children fallen for the Fatherland
