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Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is a commune of Seine-Saint-Denis and a suburb of Paris, located between Saint-Denis and the département of Val d'Oise. The town is twinned with Braintree (UK) and Rüdersdorf bei Berlin (Germany). In March 2004 the French President, Jacques Chirac, announced that a new complex housing the French National Archives would be built in the south of Pierrefitte, close to Saint-Denis Université station on Line 13 of the Paris metro.

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues