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On 12 August 1843, the Rue Royale was the scene for a bizarre phenomenon, when tens of thousands of butterflies landed, causing chaos and swarming the shops and restaurants. The pillars of the Madeleine were, reportedly, "covered". [1] The street was the site of heavy fighting and damage during the Paris Commune in the spring of 1871.
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The Anxious City (French: La ville inquiète) is a painting made by Paul Delvaux in 1940–1941. It depicts a large number of upset people, most of whom are nude or partially nude, in front of a lake and classical structures.
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This image is a part of a set of featured pictures, which means that members of the community have identified it as part of a related set of the finest images on the English Wikipedia. The main image in the set is File:Turgot map of Paris - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg .
General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
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