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Statue de Jeanne d'Arc sur la place des Pyramides à Paris
The gilded bronze equestrian statue of Joan of Arc produced by Emmanuel Frémiet in 1874.

Night and day the Tour Eiffle watches over Paris , it attracs 6 miilon vistors each year

Le thème de Silène ivre, à dos d’âne, autour d’un cortège de Bacchantes et de Satyres, remonte à l’antiquité. Le sculpteur se serait inspiré des maîtres flamands, et en particulier de Rubens, pour sculpter des chairs à l’apparence riche et sensuelle.

The Silenoi were followers of Dionysus. They were drunks, and were usually bald and fat with thick lips and squat noses.they were usually drunk and had to be supported by satyrs or carried by a donkey.

The Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Luxembourg Gardens, is the second largest public park in Paris , it contains just over a hundred statues, monuments, and fountains, scattered throughout the grounds.

The powerful Obelisk of Luxor, a pink granite monolith that was given to the French in 1829 by the viceroy of Egypt, Mohemed Ali. The edifice, which once marked the entrance to the Amon temple at Luxor, is more than 3,300 years old and is decorated with hieroglyphics portraying the reigns of the pharaohs Ramses II and Ramses III