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The city of Paris covers an area much smaller than the urban area of which it is the core. At present, Paris's real urbanisation, defined by the pôle urbain (urban cluster) statistical area, covers 2,845 km 2 (1,098 sq mi), [9] or an area about 27 times larger than the city itself. The administration of Paris's urban growth is divided between ...
As of 2008, 18.1% of the population of the northern Parisian commune of Saint-Denis was Maghrebian. [12] Melissa K. Brynes, author of French Like Us?Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisian Banlieues, 1945—1975, wrote that in the middle of the 20th Century, "few of [the Paris-area communes with North African populations] were as engaged with their migrant communities as ...
An African in Paris. University of Illinois Press, 1 January 1994. ISBN 0252064070, 9780252064074. Jenkins, Jennifer. West Africans in Paris. Lightning Source Incorporated, 2008. ISBN 3836497263, 9783836497268. "African culture in 'City of Romance'." CNN. November 5, 2012 - Video; Baarakètò (Documentary Short Film Series). An ka taa, 2022.
Montmartre became the center of the small community, with jazz clubs such as Le Grand Duc, Chez Florence, and Bricktop's thriving in Paris. Often referred to as "Les Années Folles" (or the Crazy Years), 1920's France hosted a small but significant number of African Americans, and represented an era of black American cultural appreciation.
Severiano de Heredia, president of the municipal council of Paris (1879–1880/ sort of mayor of Paris ), deputy for Paris (1881–1889), minister (1887) Blaise Diagne (1872-1934), first person of Sub-Saharan African origin elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, and the first to hold a position in the French government.
Galtier faces "charges of moral harassment and discrimination on the grounds of actual or supposed membership or non-membership of a particular ethnic group, nation, alleged race or religion ...
PARIS (AP) — Fashion. Sports. And of course, the rain. Those were the topics — separately, and together — on everyone’s lips as a gaggle of luminaries from sports, entertainment and media ...
Jews and Judaism in Paris (5 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Paris" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.