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Rue de Rivoli
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Definition:one of the most famous streets in Paris, a commercial street whose shops include the most fashionable names in the world. It bears the name of Napoleon's early victory against the Austrian army, at the battle of Rivoli, fought January 14 and 15, 1797. The rue de Rivoli marked a transitional compromise between an urbanism of prestige monuments and aristocratic squares, and the forms of modern town planning by official regulation.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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they rattle out of the yard of the Hotel Bristol in the Place Vendome and canter between the sun-and-shadow-chequered colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli and the garden of the ill-fated palace of a headless king and queen, off by the Place of Concord, and the Elysian Fields, and the Gate of the Star, out of Paris.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House
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"Rue de Rivoli is just behind this bench where you are seated. I can carry your suitcase and there are several bars along the way. [....]."
Paulo Coelho. The Spy, p.45 (2016)
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He was in the rue de Rivoli, in front of Galignani's Messenger. Separated by a door whose unpolished glass was covered with inscriptions and with strips of passe-partout framing newspaper clippings and telegrams, were two vast shop windows crammed with albums and books.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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