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It's not on the metro. RER line C to Versailles Rive Gauche is most convenient. The station is 800 metres from the palace. There are also SNCF trains from Gare Montparnasse to Versailles Rive Gauche, and from Gare Saint-Lazare to Versailles Rive Droite. There's even a train to Versailles Chantiers, but that's even further away. The 171 bus from metro Pont de Sèvres goes to the palace itself.

there are five RER lines in Paris (ABCDE) - They are operated by the public transportation service RATP - (interactive maps in link)

Underground lines are referred to as numbers or terminus stations which are signposted in other stations to direct the public. The station "la Défense" is on the line 1 ("La défense" to "Château de Vincennes").

There is also a connected RER station (RER is regional railway network, faster than the underground, but having fewer stations) on the same site.

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== == In 1893, two cousins, Theophile Bader and Alphonse Kahn, decided to open a novelty store at the corner of Lafayette and Chausee d"Antin in the shopping district near the Opera. The store expanded within 3 years and 1 rue Lafayette was purchased in its entirety and in 1905, 38, 40 and 42 Boulevard Haussman were purchased as well as 15 rue Chausee d'Antin. In 1906, Theophile Bader commissioned the Roman award-winning architect George Chedanne and later his student Ferdinand Chanut to design the new layout of the Haussman store. The block of buildings delimited by Haussmann boulevard, Chausee d'Antin, Mogador and Provence streets was redesigned according to Chanut's predilection for oriental bazaars, where the hodgepodge of merchandise and departments was intended to drive customers into a buying frenzy.

No. It's engineering design rather than architecture.

The game of rugby is highly favored in the southern area of France. Rugby was first introduced to France in the early 1870's.

It was the name of a royal estate created around Paris in the tenth century by the Capétien dynasty of the French Kings.

Yes. The oldest parts of the city were originally those on Ile de la cite, which is exclusively surrounded by the Seine River. However, the city quickly expanded to riverbanks.

mad-m-oo-a-zell d-uh pa-ri

mad like the word "mad" but with an more open "a" like in "my"

oo like in fool but as fast as you can

a like in "my"

zell like the game Zelda

uh like "a" in "a girl"

pa like pasta but don't pronounce this kind of "h" that English speaker say after a "p" or a "t"

ri like in creep (but with a short ee) en with a french "r"

Basically, on the island which is now Ile de la Cité.

Many towns start on hills because they are fortresses, the homes of warlike aristocrats round whom the common folk huddle for protection. But Paris was from the start commercial, a trading town whose ways were essentially opposed to the aristocratic principle. For traders, the site was ideal; a comparatively easy crossing-point on the great river that was the principal highway of the region, on an easily defensible island midway between the confluences of the Oise and the Marne.

To the North, a former branch of the Seine had left a marsh, with a sort of natural causeway across it about where the Boulevard de Sebastopol is now, leading to the hills of Montmartre, Ménilmontant and the Buttes Chaumont. To the South, more hills, now the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Buttes aux Cailles and Montparnasse. Two streams entered the Seine among the numerous little islands; the Bièvre in the South, and in the North the Grange Batelière, which still runs in a tunnel below the Opéra, factual home of the imaginary Phantom.

The Parisii arrived with the great Gaulish invasions of 300 BC, and soon built a flourishing town with two wooden bridges whose sites are now marked by the Pont Notre Dame and the Petit Pont. By the time the Romans came, Lutetia (the name means marshy was big enough to send an army of 8,000 men to help Vercingetorix against Julius Caesar. Unfortunately, Caesar simultaneously sent Labienus to capture Lutetia, which the absence of its warriors rendered comparatively painless. The inhabitants, however, burnt the place down rather than surrender it to the Romans.

That was in 52 BC. Over the next 300 years Lutetia developed into a city of some importance. Reserving the Island for administration and religion, the romanised Parisii spread onto the Left Bank to the South of the river. The Right Bank at this stage was mostly marsh.

For the rest of the history, see http://www.hgbservices.com/parihist.htm

The first two towers which gave their name to the Bastille were built in 1357 by the Provost of Paris Étienne Marcel.

Two more towers were added later by the Provost of Paris Hugues Aubriot, then again four more, to a grand total of eight towers, between 1370 and 1383.

The Bastille lasted for 400 years until the French revolutionaries destroyed it, starting the very next day after the July 14, 1789 storming of the jail.

The Basilique du Sacré Coeur (Basillica of the Sacred Heart) in Montmartre in Paris was constructed to expunge the sins of the 1871 Paris Commune, according to the National Assembly resolution authorising its construction in 1873.

Calais in France is very close to Belgium and the UK.

Yes,everyday!

== == The distance between Sacramento, CA and Paris, France is approximately 5503 miles (8856 km).

An engineer

it is the Indians and colonies tready

Very, especially in the mountains. I spent a year in Clermont-Ferrand some time ago, and the temperature varied from 90F in the summer to -30 in the winter.

You would have to fly from Paris to an airport like Dubrovnik and then by road you could travel on to Medjugorje.

Destinee is was born in 1994 making her 17, and Paris was born in 1994 making her 16.

It was prefabricated in sections and assembled on site. The whole process took just a year.

Tripe (plural in French) is the lining of a pig's stomach. Caen is a town in Normandy, capital of the Département (County) of Calvados. Normandy is famous for cider, which being distilled produces the spirit called Calvados. Now, the biggest problem with tripe is that it is very tough and chewy. my Northern English mother used to eat it boiled, with vinegar. This is an acquired taste, and in my opinion can only be acquired with closed eyes and the mind on something else. However, by a happy coincidence, the troughnes can be dealt with by boiling the stuff for about 10 hours in Calvados. There's a recipe in Wikipedia, at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Tripes_%C3%A0_la_mode_de_Caen.