6 Sights in Boulogne-Billancourt, France (with Map and Images)

The Capture of Kufra was part of the Allied Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War. Kufra is a group of oases in the Kufra District of south-eastern Cyrenaica in the Libyan Desert. In 1940, it was part of the colony of Italian Libya Libia Italiana, which was part of Africa Settentrionale Italiana (ASI), which had been established in 1934. With some early assistance from the British Long Range Desert Group, Kufra was besieged from 31 January to 1 March 1941 by Free French forces which forced the surrender of the Italian and Libyan garrison.

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The Hotel Mezzara is an Art Nouveau style mansion built by the architect Hector Guimard in 1910-1911 for Paul Mezzara, a textile industrialist and lace designer. It is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

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The Longchamp Racecourse is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes at the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is used for flat racing and is noted for its variety of interlaced tracks and a famous hill that provides a real challenge to competing thoroughbreds. It has several racetracks varying from 1,000 to 4,000 metres in length, with 46 different starting posts.

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Immeuble Molitor is an apartment building designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret and built between 1931 and 1934. Located at the border between the city of Paris and the commune of Boulogne-Billancourt in France, it has been listed along with 16 other architectural works by Le Corbusier as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Le Corbusier lived in the building from its completion until his death in 1965.

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The Cristaux Fountain, often referred to as the Béla Bartók Fountain, is a sculptural transcription of the tonal harmony research of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The work of the sculptor Jean-Yves Lechevallier, in polished steel and mosaic, it was inaugurated in 1981.

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The Church of Saint-François de Molitor is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Auteuil-Molitor district of Paris in the 16th arrondissement, located at 44 rue Molitor. It replaced a chapel that the Capuchins had built in 1941.

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