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2 unusual facts about Périphérique


Château de Bercy

Today the main SNCF train tracks from east to west, as well as the Périphérique and the autoroute de l'Est run where the baroque garden of Le Nôtre used to be.

Périphérique

Boulevard Périphérique, a controlled-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France


Brasier

Nevertheless, Brasier retained the premises originally acquired by the Richard-Brasier company in Ivry, then as now just outside the ring formed by the old city walls (today followed by the "Périphérique" motor-way) on the southern edge of central Paris.


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