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Located at 6, rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Notre-Dame-des-Victoires is one of ten minor basilicas located in the Île-de-France region of France. The closest Metro station is 'Bourse'.

The Place des Victoires is a circular place in Paris, located a short distance northeast from the Palais Royal and straddling the border between the 1st and the 2nd arrondissements. The Place des Victoires is at the confluence of six streets: Rue de la Feuillade, Rue Vide Gousset, Rue d'Aboukir, Rue Étienne Marcel, Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, and Rue Catinat.

The Caserne des Petits-Pères (lit. 'barracks of the Little Fathers'), also known as Caserne de la Banque, is a barracks building at 12, rue de la Banque in Paris. It was erected for the garde nationale de Paris and has been used lately by the Republican Guard. Like the nearby Place des Petits-Pères, it takes its name from the former convent of discalced Augustinians (known colloquially as the "little fathers") on whose grounds the rue de la Banque was opened in the 1840s.

The Musée en Herbe is an art museum for children, located at 23 rue de L'Arbre-Sec in Paris, France. It was formerly in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, Bois de Boulogne, Paris. The museum was established in 1975 by Sylvie Girardet and Claire Merleau-Ponty. It presents a series of art exhibits and workshops for children, based on the works of artists such as Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, and Niki de Saint Phalle. It is open daily, and an admission fee is charged.

The town hall of the second arrondissement of Paris (French: mairie du deuxième arrondissement de Paris) is the former town hall of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, at 8 rue de la Banque in Paris. It is one of only four mairies d'arrondissement built before the Second French Empire, together with those of the 5th, 6th, and 9th.

The Hôtel du Timbre, full name Hôtel du Timbre, de l'Enregistrement et des Domaines (lit. 'Stamp, Registration and Public Lands Building'), is a public building on 9–13, rue de la Banque in Paris, France.

Bourse (pronounced [buʁs] (listen)) is a station on Paris Métro Line 3, located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.

The Galerie Vivienne is one of the covered passages of Paris, France, located in the 2nd arrondissement. It is 176 metres (577 ft) long and 3 metres (9.8 ft) wide. The gallery has been registered as a historical monument since 7 July 1974.

The Palais Brongniart housed the historical Paris stock exchange (French: Bourse de Paris). It is located at the Place de la Bourse, in the II arrondissement, Paris.

The Paris Stock Exchange bombing was a bomb and armed attack carried out by anarchist Charles Gallo against the Paris Stock Exchange on 5 March 1886. Along with the Thiers statue bombing (1881) and the Black Band, it was one of the first propaganda of the deed attacks in France. In the 1880s, after anarchist theorists developed the propaganda of the deed strategy—the idea that an action could create effective political propaganda and lead to a revolution—the practice spread to areas where anarchists were present, including France. Following his release from a five-year sentence for counterfeiting, Gallo settled in Nancy, where he founded the city's first anarchist group. Shortly after, he moved to Paris, where he obtained a firearm and acid. On 5 March 1886, Gallo entered the Paris Stock Exchange, a symbol of capitalism in France, and threw his explosive, which failed to detonate. He then began firing at the people present, aiming at the government bond trading area. The bomb didn't explode, and all five shots he fired missed his intended targets, though they did slightly injure a broker's leg with a ricochet. The anarchist was arrested and sentenced to deportation to a penal colony, where he died in 1923, 37 years later. During his trial, debates raged within the anarchist movement in France, particularly concerning Jean Grave, who was in charge of the publication Le Révolté. Grave refused to publish Gallo's defense in the anarchist newspaper. In the following years, anarchist attacks in France continued, notably during the anarchist bombing campaign of 1888-1889 and the Ère des attentats (1892–1894).

The Café du Croissant or Crosse du Croisant (today the Taverne du Croissant) is a café in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. It is famous for having been the place of the assassination of Jean Jaurès by Raoul Villain on July 31, 1914. On February 20, 1938, the owner Albert Wiedmer donated the marble plaque of the table on which Jaurès was assassinated to the municipality of Champigny-sur-Marne at the request of the city's mayor Albert Thomas, a friend of Jaurès. It was classified as a Historic Monument object in 1988. Yet the waiters still have the patrons believe the café has kept the original table with a dark stain on a brighter wood that is said to be Jaurès's blood.The assassination is still remembered in the café: in 1923, a commemorative plaque was added to the façade by the Human Rights League; a red and golden floor mosaic shows the date of Jaurès's death and the exact place where he fell. Additionally, a window shelters a part of Jaurès's chair, his hat with a bullet inside, and the two front pages of the newspaper L'Humanité of July 31 and August 1, 1914.On July 31, 1984, President François Mitterrand visited the Café du Croissant to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the assassination. In a radio show, he told that in 1934 he had rushed to the café to pay tribute to Jaurès.The establishment was re-opened in 2011 as the Taverne du Croissant. On July 31, 2014, President François Hollande and Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel visited the café upon the centenary of the assassination of Jaurès. The restaurant offered a special dinner menu for the centenary.

The murder of Jean Jaurès, French deputy for Tarn and Socialist politician, took place on Friday, July 31, 1914, at 9:40 pm, as he dined at the Café du Croissant on rue Montmartre in Paris's 2nd arrondissement, in the heart of the Republic of the Croissant, not far from the headquarters of his newspaper, L'Humanité. He was hit by two gunshots: one bullet pierced his skull and the other nestled in woodwork. The famous politician collapsed, mortally wounded. Committed three days before France's entry into World War I, this murder put an end to the desperate efforts Jaurès had made since the Sarajevo bombing to prevent a military explosion in Europe. It precipitated the rallying of the majority of the French left to the Sacred Union, including many socialists and trade unionists who had previously refused to support the war. The Sacred Union ceased to exist in 1919 when his assassin, Raoul Villain, was acquitted. The transfer of Jaurès's ashes to the Panthéon in 1924 underlined another political split within the Left, between communists and socialists.