Foreigners in Paris
The foreign population is not at all homogeneous. American writers who, in the 1920’s, escaped from the United States met at the Shakespeare Library or at Gertrude Stein’s. They did not have the same social background as the Algerian workers who were looking for a job.
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Incredible Paris !
If France had remained a monarchy, the "Pont de la Concorde" bridge would still bear the name of Louis XVI. In 1792, before holding the much softer name of "Pont de la Concorde" it was called Bridge of the Revolution. [More...] |
Paris From Classicism To The Revolution
He ordered the edification of the Town Hall which started on July 15, 1533. But the masterpiece was completed only 75 years later. This masterpiece was to disappear in the big fire of the “Commune” in 1871. Later it was the turn of Saint-Eustache Church.
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Paris From Its Origins To The Middle Ages
Lutecia was rebuilt on a river Seine island setting of a Gaelic, capital town called the "Oppidum" which represented the county-town of the Parisii tribe. The name of Paris appeared in the IIIrd century; the town took the name of the tribe whose county-town it belonged to.
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Paris From Napoleon to Nowadays
It was only after the revolutionary turmoil that Bonaparte had the Carrousel square widened where he put the "Arch de Triumph". He decided to build alongside the "Rue de Rivoli" a new wing but the works, interrupted under the Restauration period, will only be pursued, with the help of "Visconsi", under Napoleon IIIrd. [More...] |
Paris in the XXth Century : Major Architectural Achievements
The major architectural projects and achievements that shape Paris towards the end of the XXth century began in the early 1950s. In the western part of Paris, the building of the C.N.I.T., an embryo of the second business center, was completed in 1958. [More...] |
Paris Major Historic Events : Chronology
300 b. J.C. - Final constitution of the Parisii tribe. Creation of Lutèce
52 b. J.C. - Battle of Lutèce, Camulogène defeat
IVth century - Start of Christianism in the Parisian status [More...] |
Paris Population
It is difficult to evaluate the population in Paris, in the Middle-ages. Around 80.000 inhabitants in the XIVth century the number increased to 300.000 in 1475 to reach one million in 1836. Paris was an overcrowded, bustling city. One must imagine it with many overcrowded houses within the main walls, narrow and unclean streets with its built-in on bridges houses. [More...] |
Paris Streets : Historic Background
It was King Philippe Auguste who decided to cobble the streets. Cobbling was first applied on the most used streets: “Saint-Jacques, Saint-Martin, Saint-Antoine and Saint-Honoré” and also on the “Petit-Pont” and on “Pont au Change”. [More...] |
Paris With The Passing Of Time ...
It is not only the kings who chose Paris as their residence who created their City but it is the administrators, the provosts who managed it, the architects who designed it. It is also the middle-class, the notables, the philanthropists, the financial speculators who created and lived in its quarters. Together, they all represent, what Paris is today.
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