Palais De L'Élysée
Palais () may refer to: * Dance hall, popularly a ''palais de danse'', in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK * ''Palais'', French for palace **Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées **Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris * Palais River in the French ''département'' of Deux-Sèvres * Palais Theatre, historic cinema ("picture palace") in Melbourne, Australia *Richard Palais (born 1931), American mathematician *Le Palais, a commune in Morbihan departement, France See also *Palais Royal (other) * Palai (other) * Palace (other) * Palas (other) A palas is that part of a medieval imperial palace or castle which contains the great hall and other prestigious state rooms. Palas may also refer to: Places * Palas, Iran, a village in Iran * Palas, a former commune, nowadays a neighbourhood in ...

Dance Hall
Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for Dance, dancing. From the earliest years of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, the dance hall was the popular forerunner of the discothèque or nightclub. The majority of towns and cities in the Western World, West had at least one dance hall, and almost always featured live musicians playing a range of music from strict tempo ballroom dance music to big band, swing (genre), swing and jazz. One of the most famous dance hall musicians was Glenn Miller. Other structural forms of dance halls include the dance pavilion which has a roof but no walls, and the open-air platform which has no roof or walls. The open air nature of the dance pavilion was both a feature and a drawback. The taxi dance hall is a dance hall with a specific arrangement, wherein the patrons hire hall employees to dance with them. The early days of rock n' roll were briefly played out in dance halls until they were superseded by nightclubs. United State ...
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Palace
A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which housed the Roman Empire, Imperial residences. Most European languages have a version of the term (''palais'', ''palazzo'', ''palacio'', etc.), and many use it for a wider range of buildings than English. In many parts of Europe, the equivalent term is also applied to large private houses in cities, especially of the aristocracy; often the term for a large country house is different. Many historic palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments, museums, hotels, or office buildings. The word is also sometimes used to describe a lavishly ornate building used for public entertainment or exhibitions such as a movie palace. A palace is distinguished from a castle while the latter clearly is fortified or has the style of a fortification ...
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Grand Palais
The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées ( en, Great Palace of the Elysian Fields), commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Construction of the Grand Palais began in 1897 following the demolition of the Palais de l'Industrie (Palace of Industry) to prepare for the Universal Exposition of 1900. That exposition also produced the adjacent Petit Palais and Pont Alexandre III. The building was designed to be a large-scale venue for official artistic events. A pediment on the building refers to this function with an inscription that reads, "a monument dedicated by the Republic to the glory of French art." Designed according to Beaux-Arts tastes, the building features ornate stone facades, glass vaults and period innovations that included iron and light steel framing and reinforced concrete. It is listed as a historic monument (''monu ...
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Petit Palais
The Petit Palais (; en, Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris''). The Petit Palais is located across from the Grand Palais on the former Avenue Nicolas II, today Avenue Winston-Churchill. The other façades of the building face the Seine and Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The Petit Palais is one of fourteen museums of the City of Paris that have been incorporated since 1 January 2013 in the public corporation Paris Musées. It has been listed since 1975 as a ''monument historique'' by the Ministry of Culture. Petit Palais, actuellement musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris History Design competition In 1894 a competition was held for the 1900 Exhibition area. The Palais de l'Industrie from the 1855 World’s Fair was considered unfitting and was to be replaced by something ne ...
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Palais River
Palais () may refer to: * Dance hall, popularly a ''palais de danse'', in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK * ''Palais'', French for palace **Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées **Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris * Palais River in the French ''département'' of Deux-Sèvres * Palais Theatre, historic cinema ("picture palace") in Melbourne, Australia *Richard Palais (born 1931), American mathematician *Le Palais, a commune in Morbihan departement, France See also *Palais Royal (other) * Palai (other) * Palace (other) * Palas (other) A palas is that part of a medieval imperial palace or castle which contains the great hall and other prestigious state rooms. Palas may also refer to: Places * Palas, Iran, a village in Iran * Palas, a former commune, nowadays a neighbourhood in ...

Deux-Sèvres
Deux-Sèvres () is a French department. ''Deux-Sèvres'' literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. It had a population of 374,878 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 79 Deux-Sèvres
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''Deux-Sèvres'' was one of the 83 original ''départements'' created during the on 4 March 1790. Departmental borders were changed in 1973 when the inhabitants of the little commune of Puy-Saint-Bonnet became form ...
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Palais Theatre
The Palais Theatre (originally Palais Pictures) is a historic picture palace located in St Kilda, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. With a capacity of nearly 3,000 people, it is the largest seated theatre in Australia. Replacing an earlier cinema of the same name destroyed in a fire, the new theatre, designed by Henry Eli White, opened in 1927. Sitting adjacent to Luna Park, it helped to establish the St Kilda beach foreshore as an entertainment precinct, and remains an iconic landmark in the area. Over time, it became known primarily as a music venue, and has also hosted ballet performances, operas and stand-up comedy shows. The Palais is included on the Victorian Heritage Register, and in 2015, it was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. History The Palais Theatre was developed by the Phillips brothers (Leon, Herman and Harold), who hailed from Spokane, Washington. Their first venture here, with fellow American showman James Dixon Williams, was ...
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Richard Palais
Richard Sheldon Palais (born May 22, 1931) is a mathematician working in geometry who introduced the principle of symmetric criticality, the Mostow–Palais theorem, the Lie–Palais theorem, the Morse–Palais lemma, and the Palais–Smale compactness condition. From 1965 to 1967 Palais was a Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Fellow. In 1970 he was an invited speaker (''Banach manifolds of fiber bundle sections'') at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. From 1965 to 1982 he was an editor for the ''Journal of Differential Geometry'' and from 1966 to 1969 an editor for the ''Transactions of the American Mathematical Society''. In 2010 he received a Lester R. Ford Award. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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Le Palais
Le Palais (; br, Porzh-Lae) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is one of the four communes on the island of Belle Île. Inhabitants of Le Palais are called in French ''Palantins''. Geography Le Palais is one of the four communes of Belle île en Mer. It is the most populated. It houses the administrative center and the main port of the island. The town centre is located northeast of Bangor, southeast of Sauzon and northwest of Locmaria. Map Population Le Palais's population peaks in 1872. See also *Communes of the Morbihan department The following is a list of the 249 communes of the Morbihan department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):
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Palais Royal (other)
Palais Royal is French for "Royal Palace", and can refer to the Palais-Royal, a former royal palace in Paris Palais Royal may also refer to: * Palais Royal (Houston-based department store), a chain of department stores in the United States * Palais Royal (Washington, D.C.), a department store operating from the 1870s-1940s * Palais Royale, a dance hall in Toronto, Canada * Palais Royale, Mumbai, a skyscraper in Mumbai, India * Palaye Royale, a rock band * Palais Royale Building, a historic commercial building in South Bend, Indiana See also * List of royal palaces * Royal Palace (other) * Palais (other) * Royal (other) Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a cit ...

Palai (other)
Palai may refer to: * Palai, Sri Lanka * Palai (Assembly constituency), of Kerala, in India * Palai Central Bank, of Kerala, India * Syro-Malabar Eparchy of ''Palai'', Kerala, India — "Palai", an eparchy in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church * Palai, Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan See also * Pala (other) * Palais (other) Palais () may refer to: * Dance hall, popularly a ''palais de danse'', in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK * ''Palais'', French for palace ** Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées **Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris * Palais River in ...

Palace (other)
A palace is a grand residence, usually for royalty or other high-ranking dignitaries. Palace may also refer to: Places * Palace, Missouri, a community in the United States * Palace Site an archeological site in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Buildings * Buckingham Palace (sometimes referred to as "The Palace" to represent the British monarch * Palace, Blackpool, a former British entertainment complex * Palace (hotel), a grade classification of French hotels * Palace II (building), a building that collapsed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * The Palace (entertainment complex), a defunct entertainment complex in Victoria, Australia * The Palace (Miami), a residential high-rise in Miami, Florida, U.S. * The Palace of Auburn Hills, a defunct arena in suburban Detroit, Michigan, U.S. * Avalon Hollywood, formerly known as The Palace, a nightclub in Hollywood, California, U.S. * Grandmaster's Palace (Valletta), Malta, officially known as "The Palace" Arts, entertainment and media Film and tel ...
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