- The
Marble Palace, (French:
Palais de
Marbre), is a
palace and
historic building in Kinshasa,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
situated atop a hill in...
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Grand Trianon The
Grand Trianon in 1724
Alternative names Trianon de
marbre General information Type Château
Architectural style French Baroque, Louis...
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Palais de
Marbre,
Kinshasa Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the
president of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, was ********inated in his
office inside his official...
- La
Fille de
marbre is a ballet-pantomime in 2 acts by
Arthur Saint-Léon, with
music by
Cesare Pugni,
premiered on 20
October 1847 at the Opéra de Paris...
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would later write about his
brief stay here,
quoting "C'était un
palais de
marbre..." ("It was a
palace of marble").
There is a
statue of Hugo
across from...
- The Cour
royale and the Cour de
marbre at Versailles...
- Murger’s book with the novelist's help
Manon Lescaut (1851) Les
Filles de
marbre (1853) (subsequently
adapted into
English as The
Marble Heart by Charles...
- Zampa, ou La fiancée de
marbre (Zampa, or the
Marble Bride) is an opéra
comique in
three acts by
French composer Ferdinand Hérold, with a
libretto by Mélesville...
- Fant, J.C. (1999). "Augustus and the City of Marble". Archéomatériaux:
Marbres et
Autres Roches.
Presses Univ de Bordeaux. pp. 278, 344. ISBN 978-2-86781-244-6...
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January 2001, Laurent-Désiré
Kabila was shot and
killed at the
Palais de
Marbre in Kinshasa. The
government initially stated that
Kabila was
wounded but...
