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The Palais du Luxembourg in Paris

Thursday 01 May 2008

The palace was built in 1615 for Queen Marie de Médicis, the second wife of King Henry IVth, who didn't like the apartments in the Louvre where she was living at the time. In 1799 it became the home of the French Senate.

Thursday 01 May 2008

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    Partly sunny.  Mild.
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