Gare d'Orsay site seen from The Louvre in March 2006. Gare d'Orsay was a railway station and hotel, built in 1900 by Victor Laloux, and served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris-Orléans Railway). It was the first electrified urban rail terminal in the world, opened May 28, 1900. [1] The station closed to long-distance traffic in 1939, though some suburban trains continued to use it, and the hotel closed at the beginning of 1973. Image File history File links Gare_d'Orsay_01-03-06. ...
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Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...
Victor Laloux (1850 - 1937), French Beaux-Arts architect best remembered for the 1900 stone facade of the Paris Gare dOrsay, now the Musée dOrsay. ...
The Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, often abbreviated to CF Paris-Orléans, was an early French railway company. ...
Orléans cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Cross, built from 1278 to 1329; after being pillaged by Huguenots in the 1560s, the Bourbon kings restored it in the 17th century. ...
Overhead wire in Coventry, England A railway electrification system is a way of supplying electric power to electric locomotives or multiple units. ...
Terminal Station was also the name of a railway station in Chattanooga, Tennessee; see Chattanooga Choo Choo. ...
May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ...
1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A Connex commuter train stands by the platform in Melbourne, Australia Regional rail systems, or commuter rail systems, usually provide a rail service through a central business district area into suburbs or other locations that draw large numbers of people on a daily basis. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
The former station was used as a collection point for the dispatch of parcels to prisoners of war during the Second World War, and after the war as a reception centre for liberated prisoners on their return; a plaque on the side of the building facing the River Seine commemorates this latter use. It served as the setting for several films, including Orson Welles' version of Franz Kafka's The Trial. It was at the Gare d'Orsay that General Charles de Gaulle held the press conference at which he announced his "availability to serve his country" (effectively placing himself at the head of a coup d'état) on 19 May 1958, ushering in the end of the French Fourth Republic. Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ...
This article is about the river in France; it should not be confused with the Senne, a much smaller river that flows through Brussels. ...
Orson Welles on the set of Citizen Kane. ...
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The Trial book cover The Trial (German Der Prozess) is a surreal novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Joseph K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and subjected to the rigours of the judicial process for an unspecified crime. ...
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ) (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ...
A joint press conference by U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House. ...
A coup détat (pronounced ), or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government against the volonté générale formed by the majority of the citizenry, usually done by a smaller supposedly weaker body that just replaces the top power figures. ...
May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ...
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Fourth Republic existed in France between 1946 and 1958. ...
Detail of the front of the old station showing one of the large clocks. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1978, and re-opened as the Musée d'Orsay museum in December 1986. The chief architect was the Italian Gae Aulenti. There is a huge clock which still works in the main terminal of the museum. Image File history File links Gare_d'Orsay_Clock_01-03-06. ...
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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
Musée dOrsay Exterior view in the afternoon Musée dOrsay Inside the main hall The Musée dOrsay is a museum in Paris, situated on the left bank of the River Seine. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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