Paris, France:

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Elements: Iodine, uranium, radium, polonium
Location: Paris
Scientist: Courtois, Lavoisier, Peligot, Curie

1630 map of Paris	1630 map of Paris	1739 Turgo map	Notre Dame, etc.	Notre Dame and Pont Neuf	Notre Dame detail
Close view of Pont Neuf	20 arrondissements	Turgot map	Park named for Courtois	Saint Antoine Street	Rue Trousseau Street
Northward on Rue Trousseau	Bernard Courtois moved to this address	Southwest on Rue Saint-Ambroise	Site of the old home of Courtois	31 Saint-Ambroise (old address 9)	Looking back at the apartments
1739 the Saint-Ambroise area	The future Rue Saint-Ambroise	plans for a "modern" nitrière	Toward the Saint-Ambroise Church	Frontside of the Saint-Ambroise Church	Saint Ambroise
Colonne de Juillet	Western side of the Place de la Bastille	History of the Bastille		"Historoire de Paris" posts,"	Information on the Bastille
How Bastille stones were used	Bastille and the Arsenal area	Identifications on previous map	250 meters south of la Place de la Bastille	Boulevard Bourdon and Rue Bassompierre	to the right, the plaque.
Local government of Paris	Where Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier worked and lived	Port de l'Arsenal.	Port de l'Arsenal used to bring cargo to arsenal.	Old street used to establish geographical locations	View of the Bastille-Petit Arsenal area
The (Grand) Arsenal and the gunpowder warehouse	Museum of Paris History	Statue of Louis XIV	modern street sign for the Carnavalet	Very old street sign	Hotel Carnavalet
Streets had different names at the time of Turgot	The mansion was constructed in 1560	Model of the Bastille	Taking of the Bastille	The Bastille--first days of its demolition	Exécution de Louis XVI
Exécution de Marie-Antoinette	École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures	Hotel le Camus	Musée National Picasso	The entrance is through the green door	Southward on Rue de Thorigny
Names of the streets have not changed in over two centuries	A closer look at the entrance	Histoire de Paris	Built by Boullier de Bourges	École des Metiers d'Art	École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures
Hotel Salé. Embassy of Venice 1671	Inside the gate.	Courtyard.-- note the statue	Fascinating design of guarding statues	Entrance to the museum	public information map
Note the enclosed crescent carriage area.	Madame Curie lived her later	Madame Curie moved here	The entrance	"Marie Curie 1867-1934 lived in this tenement 1912-1934."	North of Notre-Dame
Where Lavoisier was born.	cul-de-sac has been extended through to Rue Rambuteau	Looking north along Rue Pecquay	Looking south along Rue Pecquay	Much as it was 200 years ago.	Rue Pecquay and Rue des Blancs Manteaux
l'Église de St. Merri	Appears much as it did in Lavoisier's time	Southward on Rue Saint-Martin	Built during the first half of the 16th century.	gargoyles	View of the nave
chapel of the church	Sometimes called "Notre Dame la Petit"	Place Igor Stravinky.	Fontaine Stravinsky	Musée national d'Art modern

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