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Pont du Gard, France

Pont au Change and Conciergerie

Paris

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Arc De Champs Elysees

Paris, France

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Orange Sanguine

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Heart in Voh, New Caledonia, France

A mangrove swamp is an amphibious tree formation common to muddy tropical coastlines with fluctuation tides.  It consists of various halophytes (plants that can develop in a saline environment) and a predominance of mangroves.  These swamps are found on four continents, covering a total area of 65,000 square miles, or nearly 25% of the world's coastal areas.  This represents only half of the original range, because these fragile swamps have been continually reduced by the over-exploitation of resources, agricultural and urban expansion, and pollution.  The mangrove remains, however, as indispensable to sea fauna and to the equilibrium of the shoreline as it is to the local economy.  New Caledonia, a group of Pacific islands covering 7,000 square miles, has 80 square miles of a fairly low (25 to 33 feet) but very dense mangrove swamp, primarily on the west coast of the largest island, Grande Terre.  At certain spots in the interior that are not reached by seawater except at high tides, vegetation gives way to bare, over-salted stretches called "tannes", such as this one near the city of Voh, where nature has carved this clearing in the form of a heart. 

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The Castle of Joux

Edified in the tenth century by the Lords of Joux, this magnificent edifice commanded Franchissment the Cluse, with a toll. Became state prison at the end of the old regime, Joffre did extension in 1877 in its current form

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Chateau De Hautefort

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Castle  Sedieres

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Hotel La Perouse

Nice, France

Nice, France

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Versailles

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Almond Tree in Lavender Field
Provence, France
Robert Harding