Paris conquered by the Romans in 52 front. J-C.
was only one village
inhabited by the tribe of Paris to the shelter on the Island of the
City.
The Roman colony which is established on its ruins was prosperous:
it overflowed soon on left bank of the Seine. The francs succeeded
the Romans, gave to the city the name which it has today and made
the center of their kingdom of it.
With the Middle Ages, the faith of Parisian inspired to them by chief-of?uvre
of religious architecture: it is necessary in particular to quote
the Holy Vault and Our Lady while the university of the Sorbonne,
built at the XIII 2nd century, attracted by its fame students and
scholars from whole Europe.
During the rebirth and the century of the lights, Paris was essential
like capital of the culture and the ideas. Under the reign of Louis
XIV, the city acquired moreover richness and power.
If the people reversed monarchy in 1789, revolutionary enthusiasm
was of short duration. In 1804 the General Napoleon Bonaparte, nourishing
the ambition to make of Paris the center of the world, proclaimed
emperor and left to the conquest Europe.
Little after the revolution of 1848, great work of the baron Haussmann
transformed the city radically. Broad boulevards replaced the medieval
lanes. With the end of the Paris century had become the window of
the Western culture.
It preserved this role until the German occupation of 1940-1944. The
city extended considerably since the war, it is today ready to hold
its row with the heart of plain Europe. Paris is divided into twenty
districts, with fourteen districts equipped with the best sites.
First of all MONTMARTRE with its place of the Hillock, its basilica
of Crowned Curte, its hillock, its moulin-Rouge and its vineyards.
As a second CHAMPS-ELYSEES with his more beautiful avenues, its Triumphal
arch, the place Harmony, the church of the Madeleine.
The district of CHAILLOT with its buildings more cossues, its esplanade
of Trocadéro and its Palate of Chaillot.
The district of the INVALIDS with the tower, Fields of Mars, invalids,
the military academy, the bridge Alexandre III, the bridge of the
alma with its zouave and the departure of the high-speed motorboats
Paris Eiffel Tower.
The district of MONTPARNASSE, with its tower and its cemetery. The
district of LUXEMBOURG with its garden, the senate, its place Sulpice
saint. The district of the BOTANICAL GARDEN with its zoo.
The Latin Quarter with the Sorbonne, the Pantheon the fountain holy
Michel. The GERMAN HOLY district OF NEAR, meeting of the young people
and the artists. The District of the OPERA with the Garnier Opera,
Olympia, the street of peace.
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The
district of TILERIES, with the arcades of the street of Rivoli,
the garden, the museum, the pyramid of glass of tileries the Louvre
and the Royal Palate. The district of BEAUBOURG with the Pompidou
center, the Town hall.
The district of the MARSH, with its PLACE OF the VOSGES, the Bastille,
the church Paul Saint. The district of the ISLANDS (HOLY LOUIS
AND ISCED). We find Our Lady of Paris, the hospital of the hotel
God, the law courts, the caretaker's lodge, the prefecture and
the large flower market.
Paris: a modern city.
André Malraux launches since 1962 a programme of restoration
of the decayed districts like that of the Marsh. This policy of
the respect of the inheritance is continued by great work of François
Mitterrand which opens on the future.
The townIndeed if achievements as the large Louvre where the museum
of Orsay facilitate the access to the treasures of the past, this
program includes/understands also futuristic buildings as the
Opera Bastille, the city of sciences,
the national library of Tolbiac, the large Arch of Defense and
the stage of France where Paris turns to the XXI 2nd century.
of Paris has six large stations. The station of LYON which serves
Italy and the south east of France, with TGV, the fastest trains
of world (320 km hour). The station of Austerlitz which joined
Spain and the western south of the country. The station of the
north which joined England by the tunnel, Belgium, and Holland.
The station Lazare Saint which joined the suburbs and Normandy.
The Montparnasse station which serves Brittany and Normandy. HOME
