Bienvenue to the Paris Highlights Presentation

NCVPS Teachers

Karen Barraza and Jean McDaniel

Paris -

Do you know what famous person is found inside this tomb?????? Type in your answer while we are waiting for everyone to get here....

Do you know why we would have a picture of bikes on the front slide of our presentation? Type in your guess while we wait for everyone to get here. ☺

Les Quartiers

La carte de Paris

L’origine de Paris

L’ île de la cité

CATHÉDRALE DE NOTRE DAME

Notre Dame

SACRÉ COEUR

Monmartre – Highest point in the city

CHAMPS-ELYSÉES

• The end of the Tour de France.

• Hosts Military Parades

• Lots of people and shopping in high-end boutiques

• 8 lanes wide• Goes from L’Arc de

Triomphe to the Louvre Museum

L’arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées – most famous avenue in the world and

second most expensive real estate property.

ARC DE TRIOMPHEHow do you get to the Arche de Triomphe? It is in the middle of the traffic circle! There are four lanes of traffic to cross!

TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER• Honors soldiers who gave their lives for their

country• The idea of honoring one soldier, symbolizing

all those who died for their country at the front, arose in 1916 during the First World War.

Place De Gaulle

Galeries Lafayette

• 10 story department store

• Located on boulevard Hausseman in the 9th arr.

BATEAUX MOUCHES SUR LA SEINE

TOUR EIFFEL

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• 1889 Exposition the date that marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution

• Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel

• On the 31st March 1889, the Tower finished in record time – 2 years, 2 months and 5 days – and was established as a veritable technical feat.

• Can you guess how many gallons of paint they use to paint it every 7 years?

The base of La Tour Eiffel

Grande Arche de la Défense• In 1982 by François

Mitterand• It completed the line of

monuments that forms the “Axe historique” running through Paris.

• The two sides of the Arche house government offices. The roof section is an exhibition centre. The vertical structure visible in the photograph is the elevator frame.

LA DÉFENSE• The business center

of Paris where there are no height restrictions.

• How do you think having height restrictions within the city limits helped Paris guard its beauty?

LE LOUVRE – LA PYRAMIDEPALACE, MUSEUM, ROYAL RESIDENCE...

MONA LISA, VENUS DE MILO,

Do you know how many works of art there are in the Louvre?

The Mona Lisa

The Venus de Milo• Do you know what

other country has this statue in a museum?

Musée d’Orsay

• Do you know what kind of museum this is? (what kind of art is found inside this museum?)

MUSÉE D’ORSAY

Musée d’Orsay• Home of the Impressionists• Manet to Monet

Opéra• Le Palais Garnier

CENTRE POMPIDOU

What is that red thing going up the side of the building?!!

LE MUSÉE RODIN• THE KISS, THE THINKER

LES SCULPTURES

THE KISS THE THINKER

La Place de la Bastille

LE QUARTIER LATIN

Paris at Night• Can you name these

famous monuments in Paris?

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Questions?????• Thanks for coming to the Paris Highlights! We are

glad you did! You rock for making it such a great time and WE hope that you had fun learning about the places we visited virtually ☺

• Have a great evening!

• Mme Barazza and Mme McDaniel