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to corresponding projected images of French people and locales to enable students to learn the language by placing it in various visual and conversational contexts. The program's fictional characters included
Monsieur Thibaut, Madame Thibaut and their children, Catherine and Paul, who all lived at No. 10 Place d'Italie. This is a real apartment building with street-level stores in the square (pictured in the insert above), built around the turn of the 20th century in a combination of French
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an audio-visual French language instruction method used widely in schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Developed by the Centre de
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project, a grand exercise in urbanism, was conceived in the 1960s, and, under this plan, the Place d'Italie represented the center of a district of high-rise towers stretching out along the entire length of the Avenue d'Italie, with the construction of a truly eye-catching tower, taller than the
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The Place d'Italie takes its name from its proximity to the Avenue d'Italie, which, traditionally, has been the point of departure on the road that links Paris and Italy, a route now called the
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The annexation of communities bordering on Paris and the suppression of the city walls in 1860 allowed for the construction of a large roundabout which, it was hoped, could play the role of a
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At number 17 on the access road, Rue
Godefroy, located between the Boulevard de l'HĂ´pital and the Boulevard Vincent Auriol, a plaque recalls that the Chinese premier,
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attract many who are in search of diversion. One of the most important movie houses in Paris and the largest 35-millimetre screen in the capital, the
Gaumont
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In the small garden behind the municipal building for the arrondissement, there is a sculpture, "Return of the
Prodigal Son", executed in 1964 by
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album. In the song, she and her love interest plan on meeting and beginning their happily ever after at 3:20 at the Place d'Italie.
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The center of the square is devoted to a small green-space. Facing the Avenue d'Italie, there is a monument in memory of the
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It was on this spot that
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A YouTube visit to the Place d'Italie, in which a
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government, the effort, for the most part, was abandoned in 1975. Some sort of mast or multi-colored
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lived on this site, then a modest rooming house, during his time in Paris, 1922 to 1924.
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revolves around the Place d'Italie, all except for the
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Gérard Conte (1992), Éditions L.M. - Le Point (ed.),
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View of the three main groupings of towers from the
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