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The Musée du quai Branly (the Quai Branly Museum) features indigenous art, cultures and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. French President Jacques Chirac was a very influential proponent of the project. The building was designed by architect Jean Nouvel. A building four stores tall whose walls are entirely cloaked in living vegetation from roof to sidewalk, the “living wall” designed and planted by Gilles Clément and Patrick Blanc.

The museum is located at 37, quai Branly – portail Debilly, 75007 Paris, close to the Eiffel Tower.

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The Fête de la Musique in Paris is held every June 21st and generally starts at sundown. Amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets. Many free concerts are organized, making all genres of music accessible to the public. Some of the main events take place in the open-air in Place du Trocadéro, Place de la Bastille, the Hotel des Invalides, Place de la Republique and Parc de la Villette but music is played throughout the city in parks, restaurants and cafes…

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40, boulevard Haussmann
in the IXe arrondissement, Paris

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The Musée d’Orsay, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d’Orsay, is best known for the largest collection in the world of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. Highlights:
Édouard Manet, Olympia, The Balcony,The Luncheon on the Grass
Gustave Courbet, L’Origine du monde
Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners
Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus
Edgar Degas, The Parade, The Bellelli Family, The Tub, Portrait of Edouard Manet, Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, L’Absinthe
Claude Monet, The Saint-Lazare Station, Rouen Cathedral, Blue Water Lilies
Alfred Sisley, Inondation at Port-Marly
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait,The Siesta, The Church at Auvers
Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach

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The Paris Jazz Festival is an annual summer event which presents a programme of free concerts in the Parc Floral, at the heart of the Bois de Vincennes. Highlights of recent editions have included performances by artists such as Didier Lockwood, Cesaria Evora and Claude Nougaro. The concerts begin at 3pm and are free to all those who have paid the standard park entry fee.
12 Jun – 1 Aug 2010- Weekends only

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