What to See in Arrondissement of Palaiseau
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Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is part of the Cimetière de Liers and is called the Russian Orthodox cemetery, in Sainte…
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Château de Montlhéry
The Château de Montlhéry is a castle in the commune of Montlhéry in the Essonne département of France.
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Ivan Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and film theorist.
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Acer pseudoplatanus
Acer pseudoplatanus, known as the sycamore in the British Isles and as the sycamore maple in the United States, is a species of flowering…
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Camille Flammarion Observatory
The observatory was established in Juvisy-sur-Orge in 1883 by the French astronomer and author Camille Flammarion.
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École Polytechnique
The École Polytechnique is one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles in France.
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Mathilde Kschessinska
Mathilda-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinskaya was a Russian ballerina from the Polish noble family Krzesiński.
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Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his…
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Massy-Verrières station
Massy-Verrières is a station of the Île-de-France RER, in Massy, at the junction of RER B and RER C.
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Palaiseau station
Palaiseau is one of the four RER B stations in the city of Palaiseau.
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Savigny-sur-Orge
Savigny-sur-Orge is a railway station in Savigny-sur-Orge, Essonne, Paris, France.
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Aérotrain
The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle, or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering…
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André Abbal
André Abbal was a French sculptor. He was commissioned to work on several war memorials and this article gives details of his most important…
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Leuville cemetery
Leuville Cemetery is in the French town of Leuville-sur-Orge, 25 km south of Paris.
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