Monuments and Historical Sites Featured in Oh là là … quelle aventure!
• La Tour Eiffel, designed by Gustave Eiffel, was built between 1887 and 1889.
• La Pyramide du Louvre, commissioned by the former French President François Mitterrand in 1984, was designed by the architect I. M. Pei.
• Le Musée du Louvre, originally a fortress built in the 12th century, became a museum after the French Revolution to display the nation's masterpieces.
• La place de la Concorde, designed by Jacques Ange Gabriel in 1754 and completed in 1763, was originally named Place Louis XV.
• Le Palais du Luxembourg (Le Sénat), once owned by Marie de Médicis, has been used by the Senate since 1958.
• L’Arc de Triomphe, designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, was commissioned by Emperor Napoleon in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz.
• La Tour Montparnasse, designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan, Louis Hoym de Marien, and Roger Saubot was completed in 1973.
• Les Catacombes, or l'Ossuaire Municipal, a vast network of subterranean tunnels and caverns, became a tourist attraction in the 19th century.
• La Tour de Pise, the bell tower of the cathedral in the Italian city of Pisa, was built between the 12th and 14th centuries; its architect remains unknown.
• La Statue de la Liberté, given to the United States by the people of France in 1886, was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Maurice Koechlin, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
• Le Colisée de Rome, an amphitheatre in the center of Rome, was the largest amphitheatre built during the Roman Empire.
• Big Ben, the name of the clock in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, was designed by Augustus Pugin in the 19th century.
