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A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.