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The 1950s saw the emergence of a number of Paris-based actors, including Gérard Philipe, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, and Brigitte Bardot, whose films reached a global audience. The late 1950s saw the birth in the city of the Nouvelle Vague , or " New Wave " of cinema; led by a group of young directors who rejected the methods of Hollywood ...
12 February – Pro-communist riots in Paris. 9 April – Notre-Dame Affair, Lettrist movement anti-Catholic intervention. 3 June – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. 15–18 September – Battle of Đông Khê, French defeat in First Indochina War.
By the 1950s, the district had become a working-class area and most of its architectural masterpieces were in a state of neglect. In 1964, General de Gaulle's Culture Minister, Andre Malraux, made the Marais the first secteur sauvegardé (literally translated as safeguarded sector). That was meant to protect and conserve places deemed to be of ...
The city had no mayor or single city government; its police chief reported to the king, the prévôt des marchands de Paris represented the merchants, and the Parlement de Paris, made up of nobles, was largely ceremonial and had little real authority: they struggled to provide the basic necessities to a growing population. For the first time ...
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8 August – The Augustine monk Jean Vallière is burned at the stake for proclaiming that Jesus Christ was born like other humans. 1527 15 March – Letters of patent issued to construct the quai du Louvre. 1528 King François I begins construction of a large hunting lodge, the Château de Madrid, in the Bois de Boulogne.
The London and Paris Conferences were two related conferences held in London and Paris during September–October 1954 to determine the status of West Germany.The talks concluded with the signing of the Paris Agreements (Paris Pacts, or Paris Accords [1]), which granted West Germany some sovereignty [a], ended the occupation, and allowed its admittance to NATO. [1]