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  • Some respite is provided, however, by the contemporary Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's vitreous "Water Block" benches, which seem to float in their luminous space, and by the chic Café de l'Horloge, a Jules Verne-inspired fantasy by the Brazillian Campana team that fills the floor's foremost clock tower.

    New Visions Arrive at the Orsay Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

  • [2] Quite a separate phenomenon is the Club de l'Horloge, composed of some 120 young technocrats, most of them graduates of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration and the Polytechnique.

    Paris: Moses and Polytheism Sheehan, Thomas 1980

  • Two porticos of the Pavillon de l'Horloge, originally forming a part of the Tuileries, have been re-erected on the terrace of the Orangerie, facing the Place de la Concorde.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • The Saint Chapelle, the Conciergerie and the great clock of the Tour de l'Horloge mark the Palais de Justice down in the books of most folk as one of the chief Paris "sights," but it was as a royal residence that it first came into prominence.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • The gate was immediately opened, and Lieutenant Roche, accompanied by M. Leseur, chef de bataillon, bearing a flag of truce, followed the commandant to the Pavillon de l'Horloge, where stood the Duke of

    Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

  • Pavilion de l'Horloge, but it must have been an interminable calvary to the gallant Henri de Navarre.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • Opposite is the sober alignment of the Aile des Ministres, and still farther to the rear are the Pavillon des Aumoniers, or de l'Horloge; the Chapelle de la Trinité; the Pavillon des Armes; the Pavillon des Peintres; the Pavillon des

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • She has introduced us to the simple scenes of her childhood, the modest home on the Quai de l'Horloge, the wise and tender mother, the weak and unstable father.

    The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

  • Leaving the Place Parvis by the Rue de l'Horloge you come to the great open space in front of the Hotel de Ville and the theatre with the museum on the right, in which there are several Roman remains discovered at Vieil-Evreux, among them being a bronze statue of Jupiter Stator.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923

  • Standing in the midst of the cobbled street, there suddenly appears right ahead a splendid thirteenth century gateway -- the Tour de l'Horloge -- that makes one of the richest pictures in Normandy.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923

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