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Chaillot

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Chaillot

District of Paris, France, on the north bank of the Seine, opposite the Eiffel Tower. In 1878 the Palais du Trocadéro was built here for an exhibition. It was reconstructed as the Palais de Chaillot for an international exhibition in 1937. This building remains, housing several museums.

Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England, founded a convent in a mansion built by Catherine de' Medici on the site of the present building. Napoleon I ordered the building of the ‘most vast and extraordinary palace’ in the world on the site, but it was never completed.



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Between six and seven o'clock the road of Chaillot is quite deserted; you might as well go and ride in the forest of Bondy.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
All that troubled him but little; and he gave a warm reception every evening to the wine of the royal vintage of Chaillot, without a suspicion that several flasks of that same wine (somewhat revised and corrected, it is true, by Doctor Coictier), cordially offered to Edward IV.
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