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Petit Palais
Now the Paris museum of
fine arts, this was first
designed as a companion to
the Grand Palais (p210).

Grand Palais Champs-Elysées
Major exhibitions and a science Clemenceau
museum are based here (p210).

Alma
Marceau
Pont de la
Pont de Pont des Invalides Pont Concorde
l’Alma Alexandre III
Passerelle
Debilly Pont de Invalides
l’Alma

Bateaux Mouches

Musée du quai
Branly
(pp194–5)
Pont Alexandre III
Flamboyant statuary
decorates Paris’s most
ornate bridge (p210).
The Zouave is a statue The Liberty Flame,
of a soldier on a central commemorating
pier of the bridge. It French Resistance fight-
is used by Parisians to ers, is also an unofficial
measure the level memorial to Diana,
of the Seine when it Princess of Wales.
is in flood.

Assemblée Nationale Palais-Bourbon
Louis XIV’s daughter once owned this
palace, which is now used by the
Chambre des Députés as the national
forum for political debate (p192).
Dôme des Invalides
The majestic gilded dome (pp188–9) is here seen
from Pont Alexandre III.
For keys to symbols see back flap

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