The Paris Observatory is a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University and the foremost astronomical observatory of France. It is described as the world oldest observatory still in operation. Its historic building stands on the Left Bank of the Seine in central Paris, while most staff work on a satellite campus in Meudon. It was established in 1667 as part of a project to build a state-of-the-art observatory with advanced instruments for mapping the skies and aiding navigation, complementing the French Royal Academy of Sciences founded a year earlier. Fields such as geodesy, cartography and meteorology flourished in France there.
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Its historic building is on the Left Bank of the Seine in central Paris
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is the foremost astronomical observatory of France
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while working at the Royal Observatory in Paris
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he was made physicien (physicist) at the imperial observatory at Paris
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