Place Paul-Verlaine

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La place Paul-Verlaine est une voie située dans le quartier de la Maison-Blanche du 13e arrondissement de Paris.

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Butte-aux-Cailles

The Butte-aux-Cailles river, which once made this area important for the tannery and tissue trades, was covered over in 1860. Its route can be traced by following a series of bronze plaques embedded in the area's pavements. Today, the Butte-aux-Cailles area draws together a young, trendy and festive Parisian population in its many small bars and restaurants. Since its incorporation into Paris along with the northern extremity of the now Paris-bordering Gentilly commune to which it belonged, the Butte-aux-Cailles has managed to retain much of its village ambiance. The area is noted for its street art, including work by the artists Miss.Tic and Jef Aérosol.

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Les Olympiades

Les Olympiades is a district of residential towers located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built from 1969 to 1974, the district consists of a dozen towers built along a huge esplanade, elevated eight metres from the ground, that is dedicated to pedestrians. A shopping mall, known as the Pagode, stands at the centre of the esplanade. Below it are streets dedicated to vehicular traffic. Shops and boutiques can easily receive deliveries on the lower level. The main entrances to the residential towers are on the esplanade. Les Olympiades are designed similarly to the esplanade of La Défense. The Olympiades esplanade has maintained a rather important business and commercial activity, something that is not true of other projects in Paris and its suburbs. The northern part of the neighbourhood is typical of the 13th arrondissement, with the Parc de Choisy and Lycée Claude Monet at the northern edge of the Olympiades and the Place d'Italie three blocks north. The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers, Athènes, Cortina, Helsinki, Londres, Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo. Other residential buildings, which are wider than they are tall, complete the district. The opening in June 2007, of the new Métro station at Les Olympiades, as part of the driverless hi-speed Metro line 14 running every 4 minutes, brought Les Olympiades residents and visitors to the Olympiades complex and its esplanade — shops, restaurants, apartments, and recreational facilities — within 11–14 minutes of Saint-Lazare, Madeleine, and Pyramides on the opposite side of Paris and 2–4 minutes from the new Cour Saint-Émilion entertainment centre and Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterrand. Les Olympiades were built with the aspiration that a population of young professionals would be attracted to the complex offering multiple services, a plan known and later criticized as Italie 13. From 1975, its southern end began to attract Vietnamese and Chinese residents, who also populated the main Chinatown in Paris around the southern end of the complex. Since the end of Project Italie 13 the Paris Rive Gauche project began. Starting a few hundred metres from the Olympiades, is the second large-scale urbanism project inside the city of Paris to be built since Italie 13, and they now form a geographic unity with a new influx of professionals and office, education, library, and other complexes, including the François Mitterrand Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Italie 13

Italie 13 is the name of a large urbanism project in Paris which started in the 1960s and was interrupted in the 1970s. Its purpose was to profoundly modify the structure of some areas of the 13th arrondissement, mainly around the Avenue d'Italie which inspired its name. The partially completed project led to the creation of numerous towers in the south of the arrondissement, notably Les Olympiades.

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Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles

Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles is a Roman Catholic church located in the [Butte aux Cailles quarter of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, at 188 Rue Tolbiac. It was built between 1894 and 1912. It is noted for its Art Deco stained glass windows, added in 1938.

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Corvisart station

Corvisart is an elevated station of the Paris Métro serving line 6 at the intersection of the Rue du Corvisart and the Boulevard Auguste Blanqui in the 13th arrondissement.

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Butte-aux-Cailles

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Les Olympiades

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Italie 13

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Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles

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Corvisart station

Corvisart is an elevated station of the Paris Métro serving line 6 at the intersection of the Rue du Corvisart and the Boulevard Auguste Blanqui in the 13th arrondissement.

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