Brie (region)
Brie is a historic region of northern France notable in modern times for Brie cheese.
Saintry-sur-Seine is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Population: 5,308
Latitude: 48° 35' 47.04" N
Longitude: 2° 29' 42.54" E
Brie is a historic region of northern France notable in modern times for Brie cheese.
The Versailles rail accident occurred on 8 May 1842 in the cutting between Meudon and Bellevue stations on the railway between Versailles and Paris. Following King Louis Philippe I's celebrations at the Palace of Versailles, a train returning to Par…
The former Château de Meudon, on a hill in Meudon, about 4 kilometres south-west of Paris, occupied the terraced steeply sloping site. It was acquired by Louis XIV, who greatly expanded its as a residence for Louis, le Grand Dauphin. It was largely …
The Marché International de Rungis (or Rungis International Market) is the principal market of Paris, located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs.
Telecom Business School (ex INT Management) is a French state-funded Management School, a member of Institut Mines-Telecom (ex GET : Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications), of the Management School Chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, of…
The Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, often simply the Musée Fragonard, is a museum of anatomical oddities located within the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris.
The petit appartement de la reine is a suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles. These rooms, situated behind the grand appartement de la reine, and which now open onto two interior courtyards, were the private domain of the Queens of France, Mari…
The École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise (National School of Computer Science for Industry and Business), formerly known as Institut d'informatique d'entreprise, is one of the top French public Grandes écoles in…
Versailles-Château - Rive Gauche is a station in line C of the Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the RER. It is situated in Versailles, in the département of Yvelines.
Telecom SudParis (ex Telecom INT) is a French state-funded Grande École for engineers, accredited by the Commission des titres d'ingénieur.
The Château de Dampierre is the castle in Dampierre-en-Yvelines, in the Vallée de Chevreuse, France.
The appartement du roi is the suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles that served as the living quarters of Louis XIV. Overlooking the cour de marbre, these rooms are situated in the oldest part of the chateau in rooms originally designated for u…
Seine-et-Oise was a département of France encompassing the western, northern, and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris.
Montlhéry (pronounced: [mɔ̃.le.ʁi]) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
The Château de Courances (pronounced: [ʃɑto də kuʁɑ̃s]) at Courances (Essonne) is a French château built in approximately 1630.
Île Saint-Germain is an island located in the Seine in Issy-les-Moulineaux in the département of Hauts-de-Seine near Paris, France. It once housed a military camp that was later abandoned, but the island was redeveloped in 1980. The island is divide…
The École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (the "Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies"), more commonly known as EPITA is a French education institution specialized in the field of computer science and software …
The Versailles Orangerie (French: L′Orangerie du Château de Versailles) was built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart between 1684 and 1686, replacing Le Vaus design from 1663 - that is to say, before work on the palace had even begun. It is an example of man…