Quiz about the 1st Arrondissement (Paris)

How much do you know about the French capital's 1st Arrondissement?
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Name the four quartiers
Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois
 
Les Halles
 
Palais-Royal
 
Place Vendôme
Name of perhaps the world's most famous museum and for the arrondissement as a whole
Louvre
Mentioned museum is housed in what kind of building?
a Palace
Together with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th arrondissement, the 1st has been part of this administrative division since 2020
Paris Centre
Garden that reaches from mentioned museum to the Obelisk of Luxor and the Place de la Concorde
Jardin des Tuileries | Tuileries Garden
This bridge, the oldest in Paris, connects the 1st with the 6th arrondissement (its name has an ironic ring nowadays)
Pont Neuf
This 1572 mass murder of Huguenots probably started with the ringing of a bell belonging to a church that gives the 1st quartier its name. (You only need to name the saint after which the event is named)
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Salle de Manèges served as the meeting place for the French legislative bodies during the French revolution. Which "prince of terror" held his last speech here on July 26, 1794, two days before being executed?
Maximilien de Robespierre
Island in the Seine which stretches east into the 4th arrondissement. Enter in French; its English name would be "Island of the City".
Île de la Cité
Museum where eight huge paintings of water lilies by Claude Monet are displayed. It was formerly a depository for citrus trees.
Musée de l'Orangerie
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