Kids’ Corner Answers


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Answers: Notre-Dame

  1. They channel the water off the roof. On a rainy day you can see it pouring from their mouths.

  2. The gargoyles look as if they are hanging on the ledge of the building, while the chimeras are the statues that are standing up. They both have gruesome expressions.

  3. He is sticking his tongue out.



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Answer: Statue of Charlemagne

2. Madeline.



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Answer: Hôtel de Ville

On the façade of the Hôtel de Ville.


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Answer: Ile St-Louis

1. At the boulangerie on 35 Rue des Deux Ponts on Ile St-Louis.


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Answer: Conciergerie

  1. Marie Antoinette.



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Answer: Sainte-Chapelle

The Apostles.



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Answer: Place Igor Stravinsky

1. Death is the white skull on top of a metal sculpture, and Love is the green and red heart.



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Answer: Musée de l’Orangerie

2. Weeping willows.



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Answer: Palais Royal

2. 260


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Answer: Comédie Française

Comédie Française.


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Answers: Musée Grévin

  1. 1909

  2. 24 July 1969

  3. 9 November 1989

  4. 1998

  5. 1889


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Answers: Sacré-Coeur

  1. Jesus Christ.

  2. The one to the right of the main entrance.

  3. Giving a blessing.



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Answer: Espace Dalí Montmartre

Espace Dalí Montmartre.


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Answer: Rue Lepic

2. 2



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Answer: Europe

1. There are 20 in all.


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Answers: Arc de Triomphe

  1. 12.

  2. General de Gaulle.



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Answers: Musée Jacquemart-André

  1. St George.
  2. They are painted leaning over a balustrade that looks just as if it was real – this is known as trompe l’oeuil.

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Answer: Parc Monceau

Piano.


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Answer: Les Invalides

  1. 800.



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Answers: Musée Rodin

  1. 186.
  2. A mini version of The Thinker sits above the doors.

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Answers: Musée de Cluny

  1. Sight, sound, taste, smell and touch.

  2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.


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Answers: Panthéon

  1. Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

  2. St Geneviève.

  3. 22.



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Answer: Tour Montparnasse

Helicopters land here.



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Answer: Cimetière du Père Lachaise

1. It’s French slang – or argot– for “sparrow”.


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Answer: Parc de Bercy

Each one represents a different country.


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Answers: Stade de France

  1. In 1863, when English fans set up a team.

  2. Paris St-Germain.

  3. Blue, white and red, the colours of the national flag.

  4. Zinédine Zidane and Emmanuel Petit.



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Answers: Château de Malmaison

  1. After the Battle of the Pyramids (1798) anything Egyptian was the height of fashion.
  2. Eagles and Bees.

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Answer: Parc André Citroën

120.


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Answers: Château de Versailles

  1. Louis XIV, who was known as the Sun King, identified with him.

  2. The Marne, the Garonne and the Rhône.

  3. Six.


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Answer: Château de Versailles

  1. 357.



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Answers: Rambouillet

  1. They make a low frequency subsonic rumbling, which they can feel up to 10 km (6 miles) away.
  2. The sheep are Merinos de Rambouillet, which produce a particularly fine type of wool and have “curly” horns.

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Answers: Le Parc Zoologique de Thoiry

  1. Not for long. Male lions sleep up to 20 hours a day.
  2. They are webbed like those of ducks.

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Answers: Parc Astérix

  1. Wild boar.

  2. Prefix, the druid.

  3. Cassivellaunos.

  4. Dogmatix is unique and not a standard breed of dog.


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Answers: Disneyland Resort Paris

  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

  2. Dumbo.

  3. An apple.

  4. A donkey.

  5. Ariel.

  6. Pirates of the Caribbean.


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Answers: Fontainebleau

  1. Marie Antoinette & Napoleon.

  2. 16,000.

  3. From the royal emblems, a salamander and lilies (fleur-de-lys).

  4. Diana.