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Paris — Capital of France
Capital of France, on the Seine. The setting of Napoleon I’s coronation in 1804, it was deeply transformed under the Second Empire by Haussmann’s works. (Editorial synthesis)
41 people born in Paris are recorded: André Gide, Auguste Rodin, Beaumarchais, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Garnier, Charles VII of France, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, Claude Monet, d’Alembert, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Émile Zola, Émilie du Châtelet, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fouquet, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, George Sand, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Hardouin-Mansart, Henri Becquerel, Irène Joliot-Curie, Jacques-Louis David, Lavoisier, Léon Blum, Louvois, Madame de La Fayette, Madame de Pompadour, Marcel Proust, Molière, Napoléon Eugène Bonaparte, Napoleon III, Napoleon II, Père Joseph, Philip II Augustus, Pierre Curie, Pierre Mendès France, Richelieu, Simone de Beauvoir, Sophie Germain, Turgot, Villon, and Voltaire.
88 people who died in Paris are recorded: Alexandre de Beauharnais, Alfred Dreyfus, André Gide, Anne of Austria, Beaumarchais, Berthe Morisot, Bossuet, Champollion, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Garnier, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, Charlotte Corday, Christine Boyer, Claude Debussy, Clovis I, Colbert, Coligny, Concini, Corneille, Diderot, Édouard Branly, Édouard Daladier, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Émile Zola, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Étienne Marcel, Eugène Delacroix, Ferdinand Foch, François Mitterrand, François-Christophe Kellermann, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Galois, Georges Clemenceau, Georges Danton, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Gustave Eiffel, Hector Berlioz, Henri Poincaré, Henry II, Henry IV, Honoré de Balzac, Irène Joliot-Curie, Jacques de Molay, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean Jaurès, Jean-Paul Marat, Joseph Joffre, Josephine Baker, Jules Ferry, La Fayette, La Fontaine, Lagrange, Laplace, Lavoisier, Louis VII, Louis XVIII, Louis XVI, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lully, Madame de La Fayette, Marcel Proust, Marie-Antoinette, Mathilde Bonaparte, Maurice Ravel, Maximilien de Robespierre, Michel Ney, Molière, Montesquieu, Olympe de Gouges, Pascal, Paul Barras, Pierre Curie, Pierre Mendès France, Proudhon, Rabelais, Racine, Rameau, Richelieu, Saint Genevieve, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Veil, Sophie Germain, Soufflot, Turgot, Vauban, Victor Hugo, Vincent de Paul, and Voltaire.
48 events that took place in Paris are recorded: 9 Thermidor, de Gaulle’s investiture, May 68, the 1900 Universal Exposition, the 1931 Colonial Exposition, the 1937 International Exposition, the abolition of the death penalty, the age of majority at eighteen, the assassination of Henry IV, the consecration of the Sainte-Chapelle, the Constitution of 1946, the coronation of Napoleon I, the coup of 2 December 1851, the creation of Social Security, the creation of the Legion of Honour, the execution of Louis XVI, the first Estates General, the first manned balloon flight, the first meeting of the National Council of the Resistance, the first public screening of the Cinématographe, the founding of the Académie des sciences, the founding of the Collège de France, the founding of the Gazette, the founding of the Institut Pasteur, the founding of the Sorbonne, the law on compulsory and secular education, the law on freedom of the press, the Liberation of Paris, the opening of the musée d’Orsay, the pantheonisation of Marie Curie, the Paris Commune, the parity law, the Pétain trial, the promulgation of the 1958 Constitution, the publication of The Second Sex, the re-establishment of slavery, the Schuman Declaration, the Siege of Paris, the signing of the Concordat, the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, the storming of the Bastille, the Three Glorious Days, the Treaty of Paris, the trial of the Templars, the University of Paris, the Veil law, the Vél d’Hiv Roundup, and the Viking siege of Paris.
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