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La Samaritaine (French pronunciation: [la samaʁitɛn]) is a large department store in Paris owned by LVMH. It is located in the first arrondissement; the nearest métro station is Pont-Neuf, directly in front at the quai du Louvre and the rue de la Monnaie. [1] The company was owned by Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Ja who hired architect ...
Magazine (firearms) A staggered-column 9×19mm Browning Hi-Power pistol box magazine. The top image shows the magazine loaded and ready for use, while the lower image shows it unloaded and disassembled. Loading of small arms ammunition into a magazine. A magazine, often simply called a mag, is an ammunition storage and feeding device for a ...
13.3 Animals and pets. 13.4 Board games. 13.5 Numismatics/Coin Collecting. 13.6 Stamp collecting. 13.7 Tabletop roleplaying games. 14 Humor. 15 Lifestyle. 16 Literary ...
Magazine (artillery) Colonial Williamsburg magazine of the eighteenth century in Virginia. A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. The word is taken originally from the Arabic word makhāzin (مخازن), meaning "storehouses", via Italian and Middle French. [1] [2] [3]
Louvre Saint-Honoré. / 48.862093; 2.338161. The Louvre Saint-Honoré building is a historic structure in Paris, occupying an entire urban block between the rue de Rivoli (across the Louvre Palace ), the place du Palais-Royal, the rue Saint-Honoré, and the rue de Marengo [ fr], with a total floor surface of 47,000 square meters.
Origins in Parisian magasins de nouveautés Au Bon Marché. The Paris department stores have roots in the magasin de nouveautés, or novelty store; the first, the Tapis Rouge, was created in 1784. They flourished in the early 19th century. Balzac described their functioning in his novel César Birotteau. In the 1840s, with the arrival of the ...
Budget. €9.9 million [1] Box office. $2.5 million [2] The Suicide Shop ( French: Le Magasin des suicides) is a 2012 French adult animated film written and directed by Patrice Leconte and is based on Jean Teule 's novel of the same name . It was released on 16 May 2012 in France. [3]
Printemps ( / præ̃ˈtɒ̃ /; French: [pʁɛ̃tɑ̃], lit. ' springtime ') is a French chain of department stores ( grands magasins, lit. 'big stores') with a focus on beauty, lifestyle, fashion, accessories, and men's wear. Its flagship store, known in French as "le Printemps Haussmann" ( French: [lə pʁɛ̃tɑ̃ osman] ), is located on ...