Château de Versailles Versailles is made world-famous by the Château de Versailles, from the forecourt of which the city has grown. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/2482.en">Dromos</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/4607005.en?toptext=406491">More information</a> Palace Palace of Versailles Louis XIV was suffering from anal fistulas. In 1686, the king Louis XIV was operated on by Charles François Félix, the court surgeon, without any form of anesthetic at seven in the morning on November 18. The operation took place in the king's bedchamber at Versailles. The only onlookers were Madame de maintenon, a Minister of War named Louvois, the priest La Chaise, the doctors Daquin, Fagon and Besnières and four apothecaries who were to hold the patient. Charles François Félix, the court surgeon operated again on December 6,8 and 10. It was on January 11 that the king first promenaded in the Orangerie at Versailles. 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Students at the Lycée International must be fluent in one of the languages taught in one of the school's fourteen national sections: American or British English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. However, they are not required to be fluent in French to be admitted, as there is a special one-year Français Spécial language program. The academic curriculum of the international sections supplements the standard French curriculum with additional courses in literature/language and history/geography, taught in the language of the students' respective national sections, allowing them to pursue the option internationale du baccalauréat , the international variant of the French baccalauréat. 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It is a small suburb 20 km west of Paris.It is known for having a diverse community, due to the Lycée International being located in the neighboring town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Fourqueux has received prizes for its flowers on the departmental and regional level every year since 2005. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47233517.en?toptext=1295203">More information</a> Municipality Fort du Trou-d'Enfer The Fort du Trou-d'Enfer, also known as the Réduit du Trou-d'Enfer, is one of the fortifications of Paris, It is located in Marly-le-Roi, in the departement of Yvelines. The fort was built between 1878 and 1881 for a garrison of 800 men. It was termed a réduit for its position surrounded by several smaller batteries. The fort was occupied by the Germans during World War II, who blew up their ammunition when they evacuated the fort in August 1944, damaging the fort. The fort is named for the farm on whose land it sits, the ferme du trou-d'enfer, literally "Hellhole Farm." Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47836294.en?toptext=1295222">More information</a> Fortress Saint-Germain-en-Laye–Grande-Ceinture station Saint-Germain-en-Laye–Grande-Ceinture is railway station in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Its creation was decided on 11 March 1875 and opened in 1877. The station was built as a passenger stop on the Grande Ceinture but the line soon lost its passenger traffic only to become a goods station. The station recently reopened on 29 November 2004 and is the terminus of a small line to Noisy-le-Roi. From this station, one can go to the Gare St-Lazare by taking the Grande Ceinture Ouest to St.Nom-la-Bretèche, where one changes platforms to get a train to Paris. 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It is a northwestern suburb of Paris, located 14.2 km from the center of Paris.Until 2000, the command post of French Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47479347.en?toptext=1298795">More information</a> Municipality Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, 9.6 kilometres from the centre of Paris. Like other communes of Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of France's wealthiest towns, with the second-highest average household income of communities with 10,000 to 50,000 households. In 2006, it had a population of 29,981. 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The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the department of Yvelines, Île-de-France. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47856415.en?toptext=1348556">More information</a> Castle Pont de Neuilly The Pont de Neuilly is a road and rail bridge carrying the Route nationale 13 and Paris Métro Line 1 which crosses the Seine between the right bank of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Courbevoie and Puteaux on the left bank in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. It faces the headquarters of La Défense and is aligned on the Axe historique of Paris. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47856432.en?toptext=1348600">More information</a> Bridge Tour Carpe Diem The Tour Carpe Diem is a 162-metre tall skyscraper in the La Défense business district, near Paris in France. The first stone was laid early 2011 by the main contractor BESIX and Spie Batignolles. Completed in 2013, it is located in the municipality of Courbevoie and contains offices. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47857223.en?toptext=1349782">More information</a> POI Tour Aurore Tour Aurore is a 110-metre, 29-story office building in the La Defense central business district outside of Paris. It was designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed in 1970 but will be dismantled in 2013 to make way for Tour Air2. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/47857244.en?toptext=1349812">More information</a> POI Saint-Cloud station Saint-Cloud is a station in the commune of Saint-Cloud . It is in the Île-de-France region of France and is part of the Transilien rail network.The station is on line L and U trains of the Transilien Paris–Saint Lazare network. It is at the junction of the Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche and Versailles–Rive Droite branches. Up until 1930, there was a branch about 160 m long providing service to the Château de Saint-Cloud. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/4485830.en?toptext=1352676">More information</a> Trainstation Bosquet de la Salle de Bal If you want to know the story about this amazing place called "The Bosquet de Salle de Bal" you should watch the movie "A Little Chaos", with Kate Winslet (Sabine de Barra) and Matthias Schoenaerts as the most famous landscape architect in history: André Le Notre. Although it contains some inaccuracies it will give you a great feel for this spot. 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Due to the race's growing popularity, the competition was divided into two segments: an elite-level race and a public race. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/50712220.en?toptext=5881920">More information</a> POI Latona Fountain The Latona Fountain in the Gardens of Versailles lies in the Latona Basin between the Chateau de Versailles and the Grand Canal. On the top tier, there is a statue of the goddess Latona. The fountain operates three times a week during the high season. The theme of the Latona Fountain is taken from the myth of Latona , as vividly told in Book VI of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Latona bore the gods Apollo and Diana by Zeus, which incurred the hatred of Zeus' consort Juno. She forbade any mortals to give hospitality to Latona and her children, who were forced to wander the earth fleeing Juno's persecution, until at last they came to Lycia. A thirsty Latona attempted to drink from a local pond, but the inhabitants, obeying Juno's command, waded into the water and kicked up the mud from the bottom of the pond, so that Latona and her children could not drink. Enraged at their treatment of her, Latona cursed the Lycians to live in their pond forever, and they were transformed into frogs as punishment. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/50712642.en?toptext=5882976">More information</a> Fountain Tour Blanche Tour Blanche is an office skyscraper in Courbevoie, in La Défense, the business district of the Paris metropolitan area.Built in 1967 by the architectural firm Les Frères Arsène-Henry, it belongs to the first generation of La Défense towers: its height respects the previous standard height, which was 100 m. 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Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/50721233.en?toptext=5891645">More information</a> POI Château de Bagatelle The Château de Bagatelle is a small Neoclassical style château with several small formal French gardens, a rose garden, and an orangerie. It is set on 59 acres of gardens in French landscape style in the Bois de Boulogne, which is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The château is a glorified playground, actually a maison de plaisance intended for brief stays while hunting in the Bois de Boulogne in a party atmosphere. The French word bagatelle, from the Italian word bagatella, means a trifle or little decorative nothing. Initially, a small hunting lodge was built on the site for the Maréchal d'Estrées in 1720. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/51658769.en?toptext=8025648">More information</a> Castle L'Étang-la-Ville L'Étang-la-Ville ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.L'Étang-la-Ville is served by two railway stations on the Transilien Line L: L'Étang-la-Ville and Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche–Forêt de Marly. Author: <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/user/view/165089.en">Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.routeyou.com/location/view/51661786.en?toptext=8028718">More information</a> Arrondissement Canton of Saint-Cloud The canton of Saint-Cloud is an administrative division of the Hauts-de-Seine department in northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Cloud. 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