Institut de France looking across the Pont des Arts bridge

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The building which houses the Institut de France was constructed between 1663 and 1684 through a bequest of Cardinal Mazarin, and was known at first as the Collège Mazarin or Collège des Quatres Nations. The Institute itself, grouping several existing Academies (including that of the Beaux-Arts), was founded in 1795 but moved in 1806 to the building which then took its name. The Pont des Arts over the river Seine, which leads straight to the Institut, had been built shortly before, in 1802-1804.

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Location: Pont des Arts, Paris, France
Photo credit: © David Jones / Alamy / Afripics
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