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On 5 October 1789, a large crowd of Parisians marched to Versailles and, the following day, brought the royal family and government back to Paris, virtually as prisoners. The new government of France, the National Assembly, began to meet in the Salle du Manège near the Tuileries Palace on the outskirts of the Tuileries garden. [92]
The gold reserves of the Bank of France had been moved out of Paris for safety in August 1870, in addition to 88 million francs in gold coins and 166 million francs in banknotes. When the Thiers government left Paris in March, they did not have the time or the reliable soldiers to take the money with them.
This begins the insurrection of Paris against the royal government known as the Fronde parlementaire (1648–1649). 27 August – The Day of the Barricades. More than twelve hundred barricades erected in Paris against the royal authorities, and prisoners seized by Mazarin are liberated on the 29th.
The state-appointed Prefect of Police was in charge of police in the same jurisdiction. With the exception of a few brief occasions, Paris did not have a mayor from 1794 to 1977. [citation needed] The Paris Prefecture of Police is under state control today. Despite its dual existence as commune and département, Paris has a single council to ...
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, on 9 Thermidor. The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris) during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795. Established in the Hôtel de Ville just after the storming of the Bastille, it consisted of 144 delegates elected by the 60 divisions of the city.
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 [3] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [4] Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union, the ninth-most populous city in Europe and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [5]
The American inventor, Robert Fulton, who was in Paris to try to sell his inventions, the steamboat, a submarine and a torpedo, to Napoleon, bought the patent in 1799 from the inventor of the panorama, the English artist Robert Barker, and opened the first panorama in Paris in July 1799; it was a Vue de Paris by the painters Constant Bourgeois ...
Paris became France's center of international banking and stock trading in these last decades, like Amsterdam and London, and the Caisse d'Escompte was founded in 1776. Paper money was re-introduced, denominated in livres; these were issued until 1793. The later years of Louis XV's reign saw some economic setbacks.