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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Paris: Paris – capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of ...
The city walls of Paris include: a Gaulish enclosure (precise location unknown) a Gallo-Roman wall; two medieval walls, one of which was the Wall of Philip II Augustus; the Wall of Charles V, extending on the right bank of the River Seine
Daguerre's daguerreotype taken at 8:00 AM. Boulevard du Temple is a photograph of a Parisian streetscape made in 1838 (or possibly 1837 [1]), and is one of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates produced by Louis Daguerre. [2]
After the construction of the Wall of the Farmers-General in 1785, the gates of Paris bore the names barriers (barrières) until 1860 (e.g. barrière de la Villette, barrière du Trône, barrière d'Italie, etc.) They were, in fact, toll gates used for collection of the octroi, an excise tax assessed on goods entering the city.
Dividing the two halves is a horizontal line outlined with buildings; the church tower at the centre of the painting has been identified to be the bell tower of the church of St-Pierre de Montrouge, which was built in the 1860s in the Petit-Montrouge district of Paris. [2] The crossing tower of the church rises to the right of the bell tower.
Paris, France: June 9, 1923 Memorial Day at the Arc de Triomphe de lEtoile at the western end of the Champs-Elysees in Paris. It honors those who fought for France. (Underwood Archives, Inc ...
The Louvre. The 1st arrondissement forms much of the historic centre of Paris. Place Vendôme is famous for its deluxe hotels such as Hôtel Ritz, The Westin Paris – Vendôme, Hôtel de Toulouse (headquarters of Banque de France), Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, Hôtel Meurice, and Hôtel Regina [1] Les Halles were formerly Paris's central meat and produce market, and, since the late 1970s, are a ...
Behind the scenes of the Today show, filming in Paris during the Olympics. For three hours Monday, I watched Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Craig Melvin juggle guests and bounce between ...