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Day 1 - Paris

10 POIs to discover

5 Points of interest - Duration : 3h45 - Distance : 1.6 km - Walking : 0h20

Paris-Sorbonne was founded in 1971 as a university specializing in the humanities, arts and social sciences.
Heir to a centuries-old humanist custom, it is a university of letters and humanities of international renown.
Along with the universities of Oxford, Bologna and Salamanca, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world.
It was founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon and reformed in its entirety by Cardinal Richelieu.‍ Among its famous professors and students are Pierre and Marie Curie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, René Descartes, Louis Pasteur, Lavoisier, Pierre Paulet, Victor Hugo, St.
Ignatius of Loyola and St.
John Baptist de La Salle and Armando Uribe among many others.
In 2010, it established partnerships with other institutions to form the Sorbonne Universités group.

Place Samuel-Paty is home to several sculptures, including a monument to Puvis de Chavannes, another to Octave Gréard, a statue of Montaigne and the Capitoline She-Wolf.
The statue of Montaigne became famous among students at the Sorbonne, who believed that touching his right shoe would bring good luck in exams.A French painter.
Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter, considered a forerunner of symbolism.
Octave Gréard was a French pedagogue and academic.

The Sorbonne Observatory is a former astronomical observatory.
The observatory is located on the rooftop of the Sorbonne.
It houses an observational telescope belonging to the Société astronomique de France (SAF) and public observations are organized there.

The Luxembourg Garden is a public garden created in 1612 at the request of Marie de Medici and now belonging to the Senate.
Its name is inspired by the former mansion of the Hôtel de Luxembourg.
It houses the Palais du Luxembourg, seat of the French Senate, and the Petit Luxembourg.
The Petit Luxembourg or Hôtel de la Présidence has been the residence of the President of the French Senate since 1825.
It is adjacent to the Luxembourg Palace.
In 2022, the garden was listed as the most beautiful in Europe and the third most beautiful in the world.

The Pantheon is a neoclassical mausoleum located on Mont Sainte-Geneviève, which has become the burial place of great French personalities.
Its architecture (from 1758), as well as its name, is inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, which was a monument dedicated to the veneration of the gods and was reused as the tomb of illustrious personalities.
Pantheon's architecture mixes different styles, including Gothic, Byzantine, Classical and Greco-Roman. Among those buried in the Pantheon are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Jaurès, Jean Moulin, Louis Braille, Jean Monnet, Sadi Carnot, Pierre and Marie Curie, André Malraux and Soufflot, its architect.
In 1851 Léon Foucault installed his famous pendulum in the Pantheon because the great height of the building facilitated the experiment.
Through this experiment he succeeded in demonstrating the rotation of the Earth and the existence of the Coriolis force.
A replica of the pendulum has been installed in the Pantheon since 1995.

5 Points of interest - Duration : 3h45 - Distance : 2.6 km - Walking : 0h34

The "Defender of Time" clock was inaugurated in October 1979 and was a point of attraction in the district.
The automaton depicts a man wielding a sword and shield, fighting animals symbolizing the elements: the crab for the sea, the dragon for the land and the bird for the sky.
Every hour, between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m., the automaton is attacked by one of the animals, accompanied by an appropriate soundtrack.
The automatons operate on pneumatic cylinders and are controlled by a random programming system.
Maintenance problems began in 1992, when the association in charge of the neighborhood decided that it would no longer bear the maintenance costs.
Several funding proposals were made, but none came to fruition, leading to the clock's closure..

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Georges Cain was a French painter, illustrator and writer.
In the center of the garden is a bronze statue of Aristide Maillol, French painter, engraver and sculptor.
The square also houses a lapidary museum with archaeological finds and historical relics of Paris.
The square is planted with many species, including a fig tree over 6 meters high.
In addition to the statue of Aristide Maillol, the square is home to a sound creation called "Le Rossignol de Heinz", powered by solar collectors.

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The National Archives were created in 1790 and preserve a total of 373 linear km of archives, covering the history of France since the 7th century.
Contains the archives of most of the central agencies of the French state.
The Ministries of Defense, Economy and Finance, and Foreign Affairs have had their own archival services since the 18th century.
Documents held in the National Archives can be consulted and reused free of charge.

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This is the oldest square in Paris, known by various names such as Place Royale and Place de la République.
It owes its name to the Vosges department, the first to pay taxes during the French Revolution.
It has been home to many political, artistic and media personalities.
Along with the Place des Victoires, the Place Dauphine, the Place Vendôme and the Place de la Concorde, it is one of the five royal squares in Paris.
In the center of the square is the Square Louis-XIII, adorned with four fountains.

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The Bassin de l'Arsenal, also known as the Port de l'Arsenal, is a boat basin.
It links the Canal Saint-Martin to the Seine and is part of the Réseau des Canaux Parisiens (Parisian Canal Network).
An arsenal existed at this location from the 16th to 19th centuries, which is where the basin gets its name.
After the Bastille fortress was destroyed in 1789, the Bassin de l'Arsenal was excavated to replace the fortress's ditch.
The Bassin de l'Arsenal was a commercial port during the 19th and 20th centuries, until it was converted into a leisure port in 1983.
It is currently a marina for about 180 pleasure boats and is part of France's national Navigable Waterways system (Voies navigables de France).

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