Paris

Paris
Paris
Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: "It is tossed by the waves, but does not sink")

Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the foreground and the skyscrapers of La Dfense in the background

City flag

City coat of arms

Paris Administration Country Region Department Mayor France le-de-France Paris Bertrand Delano(PS) (20082014) Statistics Land area1
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105.4km2 (40.7sqmi) 2,234,105(Jan.2009 1st in France

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-Density Urban area -Population Metro area -Population Time zone INSEE/Postal code Website
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21,196/km2 (54,900/sqmi) 2,844.8km2 (1,098.4sqmi) (2010) 10,413,386

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17,174.4km2 (6,631.1sqmi) (2010) 12,161,542

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CET (UTC +1) 75056

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/ 75001-75020, 75116
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www.paris.fr

French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km (0.386 sqmi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Paris ( i/prs/; French: [pai]( listen)) is the capital and largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the le-de-France region. The city of Paris, within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), has a population of about 2,200,000.[2] Its metropolitan area is one of the largest population centres in Europe, with more than 12 million inhabitants.[4] An important settlement for more than two millennia, Paris had become, by the 12th century, one of Europe's foremost centres of learning and the arts and the largest city in the Western world until the 18th century.[7] Paris is today one of the world's leading business[8] and cultural[9] centres and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.[10] Paris and the Paris Region, with 572.4billion in 2010, produce more than a quarter of the gross domestic product of France[11] and has one of the largest city GDPs in the world.[12] Considered as green[13] and highly liveable,[14] the city and its region are the world's leading tourism destination.[15] They house four UNESCO World Heritage Sites[16] and many international organizations.

Etymology
The name Paris derives from that of its earliest inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii. The city was called Lutetia (more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, "Lutetia of the Parisii"), during the Roman era of the 1st to the 6th century, but during the reign of Julian the Apostate (360363), the city was renamed Paris.[17] It is believed that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning "the working people" or "the craftsmen."[18] Paris has many nicknames, but its most famous is "La Ville-Lumire" ("The City of Light"),[19] a name it owes first to its fame as a centre of education and ideas during the Age of Enlightenment, and later to its early adoption of street lighting.[20] Since the mid-19th century, Paris has been known as Paname[21] ([panam]) in the Parisian slang called argot ( Moi j'suis d'Paname, i.e. "I'm from Paname"). The singer Renaud repopularized the term amongst the young generation[21] with his 1976 album Amoureux de Paname ("In love with Paname"). Paris' inhabitants are known in English as "Parisians" and in French as Parisiens ([paizj]( listen)) and Parisiennes. Parisians are often pejoratively called Parigots ([paio]( listen)) and Parigotes, a term first used in [22] 1900 by those living outside the Paris region. See Wiktionary for the name of Paris in various languages other than English and French.

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History
Origins
The earliest archaeological signs of permanent settlements in the Paris area date from around 4200BC.[23] The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the area near the river Seine from around 250 BC.[24][25] The Romans conquered the Paris basin in 52BC,[23] with a permanent settlement by the end of the same century on the Left Bank Sainte Genevive Hill and the le de la Cit. The Gallo-Roman town was originally called Lutetia, or Lutetia Parisorum but later Gallicised to Lutce. It expanded greatly over the following centuries, becoming a prosperous city with a forum, palaces, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre.[26]

The Gallo-Roman baths Thermes de Cluny at the Muse national du Moyen ge, in Paris's Latin Quarter.

The collapse of the Roman empire and the 5th-century Germanic invasions sent the city into a period of decline. By AD400, Lutce, largely abandoned by its inhabitants, was little more than a garrison town entrenched into a hastily fortified central island.[23] The city reclaimed its original appellation of "Paris" towards the end of the Roman occupation.

Merovingian and Feudal Eras

The Paris region was under full control of the Germanic Franks by the late 5th century. The Frankish king Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, made the city his capital from 508. The late 8th century Carolingian dynasty displaced the Frankish capital to Aachen; this period coincided with the beginning of Viking invasions that had spread as far as Paris by the early 9th century. Repeated invasions forced Parisians to build a fortress on the le de la Cit. One of the most remarkable Viking raids was on 28March 845, when Paris was sacked and held ransom, probably by Ragnar Lodbrok, who left only after receiving a large bounty paid by the crown. The weakness of the late Carolingian kings of France led to the gradual rise in power of the Counts of Paris; Odo, Count of Paris, was elected king of France by feudal lords, and the end of the Carolingian empire came in 987 when Hugh Capet, count of Paris, was elected king of France. Paris, under the Capetian kings, became a capital once more.

Middle Ages to 19th century

Paris's population was around 200,000[27] when the Black Death arrived in 1348, killing as many as 800 people a day; and 40,000 died from the plague in 1466.[28] During the 16th and 17th centuries, plague visited the city for almost one year out of three.[29] Paris lost its position as seat of the French realm during the occupation by the English-allied Burgundians during the Hundred Years' War, but regained its title when CharlesVII of France reclaimed the city from English rule in 1436. Paris from then on became France's capital once again in title, but France's real centre of power would remain in the Loire Valley[30] until King FrancisI returned France's crown residences to Paris in 1528.

The Chteau de Vincennes, built between the 14th and 17th century.

During the French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic party. In August 1572, under the reign of CharlesIX, while many noble Protestants were in Paris on the occasion of the marriage of Henry of Navarre the

Paris future HenryIV to Margaret of Valois, sister of Charles IX, the St.Bartholomew's Day massacre occurred; begun on 24August, it lasted several days and spread throughout the country.[31][32] In 1590 Henry IV unsuccessfully laid siege to the city in the Siege of Paris. During the Fronde, Parisians rose in rebellion and the royal family fled the city (1648). King LouisXIV then moved the royal court permanently to Versailles, a lavish estate on the outskirts of Paris, in 1682. Acentury later, Paris was the centre stage for the French Revolution, with the Storming of the Bastille on 14July 1789 and the overthrow of the monarchy in September 1792.[33]

19th century
Paris was occupied by Russian and Allied armies upon Napoleon's defeat on the 31March 1814; this was the first time in 400 years that the city had been conquered by a foreign power.[34] The ensuing Restoration period, or the return of the monarchy under Louis XVIII (18141824) and CharlesX, ended with the July Revolution Parisian uprising of 1830. The new 'constitutional monarchy' under Louis-Philippe ended with the 1848 "February Revolution" that led to the creation of the Second Republic. Throughout these events, cholera epidemics in 1832 and 1849 ravaged the population of Paris; the 1832 epidemic alone claimed 20,000 of the population of 650,000.[35]
Storming of the Bastille, by Jean-Pierre Houl (1789)

The greatest development in Paris's history began with the Industrial Revolution creation of a network of railways that brought an unprecedented flow of migrants to the capital from the 1840s. The city's largest transformation came with the 1852 Second Empire under NapoleonIII; his prfet, Baron Haussmann, levelled entire districts of Paris' narrow, winding medieval streets to create the network of wide avenues and neo-classical faades that still make up much of modern Paris; the reason for this transformation was twofold, as not only did the creation of wide boulevards beautify and sanitize the capital, it also facilitated the effectiveness of troops and artillery against any further uprisings and barricades for which Paris was so famous.[36] The Second Empire ended in the Franco-Prussian War (18701871), and a besieged Paris under heavy bombardment surrendered on 28 January 1871. The discontent of Paris' populace with the new armistice-signing government seated in Versailles resulted in the creation of the Paris Commune government, supported by an army created in large part of members of the city's former National Guard who would both continue resistance against the Prussians and oppose Drilling of numerous streets under the Second the army of the "Versaillais" government. The Paris Commune ended Empire and the Third Republic. with the Semaine Sanglante ("Bloody Week"), during which roughly 20,000 "Communards" were executed before the fighting ended on 28 May 1871.[37] The ease with which the Versaillais army overtook Paris owed much to Baron Haussmann's renovations. France's late 19th-century Universal Expositions made Paris an increasingly important centre of technology, trade, and tourism.[38] Its most famous were the 1889 Exposition universelle to which Paris owes its "temporary" display of architectural engineering progress, the Eiffel Tower, which remained the world's tallest structure until 1930; the 1900 Universal Exposition saw the opening of the first Paris Mtro line.

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20th century
During World War I, Paris was at the forefront of the war effort, having been spared a German invasion by the French and British victory at the First Battle of the Marne in 1914. In 19181919, it was the scene of Allied victory parades and peace negotiations. In the inter-war period, Paris was famed for its cultural and artistic communities and its nightlife. The city became a gathering place of artists from around the world, from exiled Russian composer Stravinsky and Spanish painters Picasso and Dal to American writer Hemingway.[39] On 14 June 1940, five weeks after the start of the Battle of France, an undefended Paris fell to German occupation forces. The Germans marched past the Arc de Triomphe on the 140th anniversary of Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Marengo.[40] German forces remained in Paris until the city was liberated in August 1944 after a resistance uprising, two and a half months after the Normandy invasion.[41] Central Paris endured World WarII practically unscathed, as there were no strategic targets for Allied bombers (train stations in central Paris are terminal stations; major factories were located in the suburbs). Also, German General von Choltitz did not destroy all Parisian monuments before any German retreat, as ordered by Adolf Hitler, who had visited the city in 1940.[42]

The Liberation of Paris, August 1944.

In the post-war era, Paris experienced its largest development since the end of the Belle poque in 1914. The suburbs began to expand considerably, with the construction of large social estates known as cits and the beginning of the business district La Dfense. A comprehensive express subway network, the RER, was built to complement the Mtro and serve the distant suburbs, while a network of freeways was developed in the suburbs, centred on the Priphrique expressway encircling the city.[43][44][45] Since the 1970s, many inner suburbs of Paris (especially the northern and eastern ones) have experienced deindustrialization, and the once-thriving cits have gradually become ghettos for immigrants and experienced significant unemployment.[46][47] At the same time, the city of Paris (within its Priphrique expressway) and the western and southern suburbs have successfully shifted their economic base from traditional manufacturing to high-value-added services and high-tech manufacturing, generating great wealth for their residents whose per capita income is among the highest in Europe.[48][49][50] The resulting widening social gap between these two areas has led to periodic unrest since the mid-1980s, such as the 2005 riots which were concentrated for the most part in the northeastern suburbs.[51]

21st century
A massive urban renewal project, the Grand Paris (Greater Paris), has been launched in 2007 by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.[52] It consists of various economic, cultural, housing, transport and environmental projects to reach a better integration of the territories and revitalise the metropolitan economy. The most emblematic project is the construction by 2025 of a new automatic metro which will consist of 150km rapid-transit lines connecting the Grand Paris regions to one another and to the centre of Paris. Nevertheless, the Paris metropolitan area is still divided into numerous territorial collectivities and their fusion into a more integrated

Provisional map of the future Grand Paris metro.

Paris metropolis government, although sometimes discussed[53] is not on the agenda.[54] An ad-hoc structure, Paris Mtropole, has however been established in June 2009 to coordinate the action of 184 "Parisian" territorial collectivities.[55] In an effort to boost the global economic image of metropolitan Paris, several skyscrapers (300m (984ft) and higher) have been approved since 2006 in the business district of La Dfense, to the west of the city proper, and are scheduled to be completed by the early 2010s. Paris authorities also stated publicly that they are planning to authorise the construction of skyscrapers within the city proper by relaxing the cap on building height for the first time since the construction of the Tour Montparnasse in the early 1970s.[56]

Geography
Paris is located in the north-bending arc of the river Seine and includes two islands, the le Saint-Louis and the larger le de la Cit, which form the oldest part of the city. Overall, the city is relatively flat, and the lowest point is 35m (115ft) above sea level. Paris has several prominent hills, of which the highest is Montmartre at 130m (427ft).[57] Excluding the outlying parks of Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, Paris covers an oval measuring 86.928km2 (34sqmi) in area. The city's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 not only gave it its modern form but also created the twenty clockwise-spiralling arrondissements (municipal boroughs). From the 1860 area of 78km2 (30sqmi), the city limits were expanded marginally to 86.9km2 (34sqmi) in the 1920s. In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes forest parks were officially annexed to the city, bringing its area to the present 105.39km2 (41sqmi).[58]

Climate
Paris has the typical Western European oceanic climate which is affected by the North Atlantic Current. Over a year, Paris' climate can be described as mild and moderately wet.
Paris as seen from the Spot Satellite.

Summer days are usually warm and pleasant with average temperatures hovering between 15 and 25 C, and a fair amount of sunshine. Each year, however, there are a few days where the temperature rises above 32 C (90F). Some years have even witnessed some long periods of harsh summer weather, such as the heat wave of 2003 where temperatures exceeded 30 C (86F) for weeks, surged up to 40 C (104F) on some days and seldom cooled down at night. More recently, the average temperature for July 2011 was +17.6 C, with an average minimum temperature of 12.9 C and an average maximum temperature of 23.7 C.[59] Spring and autumn have, on average, mild days and fresh nights, but are changing and unstable. Surprisingly warm or cool weather occurs frequently in both seasons. In winter, sunshine is scarce; days are cold but generally above freezing with temperatures around 7 C (45F). Light night frosts are however quite common, but the temperature will dip below 5 C (23F) for only a few days a year. Snowfall is rare, but the city sometimes sees light snow or flurries with or without accumulation. Recently, notably in 2009, 2010 and 2011, intense cold waves brought repeated heavy snowfalls (15cm (5.91in) during one of December 2010's fourteen snowstorms) and temperatures plummeting to 10 C (14F) and 20 C (4F) in the Paris suburbs. Rain falls throughout the year, and although Paris is not a very rainy city, it is known for intense sudden showers. Average annual precipitation is 652mm (25.7in) with light rainfall fairly distributed throughout the year. The highest recorded temperature is 40.4 C (105F) on 28 July 1948, and the lowest is a 23.9 C (11F) on 10 December 1879.[60]

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Climate data for Paris (19712000) Month Record high C (F) Average high C (F) Average low C (F) Record low C (F) Precipitation mm (inches) Avg. precipitation days Mean monthly sunshine hours Jan
16.1 (61) 6.9 (44.4) 2.5 (36.5) 14.6 (5.7)

Feb
21.4 (70.5) 8.2 (46.8) 2.8 (37) 14.7 (5.5)

Mar
25.7 (78.3) 11.8 (53.2) 5.1 (41.2) 9.1 (15.6)

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep
36.2 (97.2) 20.8 (69.4) 12.5 (54.5) 1.8 (35.2)

Oct
28.4 (83.1) 15.8 (60.4) 9.2 (48.6) 3.1 (26.4)

Nov
21 (70) 10.4 (50.7) 5.3 (41.5) 14 (7)

Dec
17.1 (62.8) 7.8 (46) 3.6 (38.5) 23.9

Year
40.4 (104.7) 15.5 (59.9) 8.5 (47.3) 23.9

30.2 34.8 37.6 40.4 39.5 (86.4) (94.6) (99.7) (104.7) (103.1) 14.7 19.0 22.7 (58.5) (66.2) (72.9) 6.8 10.5 13.3 (44.2) (50.9) (55.9) 3.5 0.1 3.1 (25.7) (31.8) (37.6) 25.2 (77.4) 15.5 (59.9) 6 (43) 25.0 (77) 15.4 (59.7) 6.3 (43.3) 43 (1.69) 6.9

53.7 43.7 48.5 53 65 54.6 63.1 (2.114) (1.72) (1.909) (2.09) (2.56) (2.15) (2.484) 10.2 9.3 10.4 9.4 10.3 8.6 8

54.7 59.7 51.9 58.7 649.6 (2.154) (2.35) (2.043) (2.311) (25.575) 8.5 9.5 9.7 10.7 111.5

55.8

86.8

130.2

174.0

201.5

219.0

238.7
[61]

220.1

171.0

127.1

75.0

49.6

1,748.8

Source: Meteo France

Cityscape

Panorama of Paris as seen from the Eiffel Tower as full 360-degree view.

Panoramic view over the western side of Paris, at dusk, from the top of the Tour Montparnasse.

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Architecture
Much of contemporary Paris is the result of the vast mid-19th century urban remodelling. For centuries, the city had been a labyrinth of narrow streets and half-timber houses, but, beginning with Haussman's advent, entire quarters were leveled to make way for wide avenues lined with neo-classical stone buildings of bourgeoisie standing. Most of this 'new' Paris is the Paris we see today. The building code has seen few changes since, and the Second Empire plans are in many cases still followed. The "alignement" law is still in place, which regulates building faades of new constructions according to a pre-defined street width. A building's height is limited according to the width of the streets it borders, and under the regulation, it is difficult to get an approval to build a taller building.

Boulevard Montmartre, by Camille Pissarro (1897)

Many of Paris' important institutions are located outside the city limits. The financial (La Dfense) business district; the main food wholesale market (Rungis); schools (cole Polytechnique; ESSEC; INSEAD; HEC); research laboratories (in Saclay or vry); the largest stadium (the Stade de France), and the government offices (Ministry of Transportation) are located in the city's suburbs.

Districts and historical centres

City of Paris Place de la Bastille (4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements, right bank) is a district of great historical significance, for not just Paris, but also all of France. Because of its symbolic value, the square has often been a site of political demonstrations. Place de la Concorde (8th arrondissement, right bank) is at the foot of the Champs-lyses, built as the "Place Louis XV", site of the infamous guillotine. The Egyptian obelisk is Paris' "oldest monument". On this place, on either side of the Rue Royale, there are two identical stone buildings: The eastern one houses the French Naval Ministry, the western the luxurious Htel de Crillon. Nearby Place Vendme is famous for its fashionable and deluxe hotels (Htel Ritz and Htel de Vendme) and its jewellers. Many famous fashion designers have had their salons located here.
Basilique du Sacr-Cur in Montmartre

The Louvre

Champs-lyses (8th arrondissement, right bank) is a 17th-century garden-promenade-turned-avenue connecting Place de la Concorde and Arc de Triomphe. It is one of the many tourist attractions and a major shopping street of Paris. Les Halles (1st arrondissement, right bank) were formerly Paris' central meat and produce market, and, since the late 1970s, are a major shopping centre around an important metro connection station (Chtelet Les Halles, the biggest in the world). The old Halles

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9 were destroyed in 1971 and replaced by the Forum des Halles. The central market of Paris, the biggest wholesale food market in the world, was transferred to Rungis, in the southern suburbs. Le Marais (3rd and 4th arrondissements) is a trendy Right Bank district. It is architecturally very well preserved, and some of the oldest houses and buildings of Paris can be found there. It is a very culturally open place. It is also known for its Chinese, Jewish and gay communities. Avenue Montaigne (8th arrondissement), next to the Champs-lyses, is home to luxury brand labels such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Dior and Givenchy. Montmartre (18th arrondissement, right bank) is a historic area on the Butte, home to the Basilique du Sacr-Cur. Montmartre has always had a history with artists and has many studios and cafs of many great artists in that area.

Galeries Lafayette department store in boulevard Haussmann during Christmas.

Montparnasse (14th arrondissement) is a historic Left Bank area famous for artists' studios, music halls, and caf life. The large Montparnasse Bienvene mtro station and the lone Tour Montparnasse skyscraper are located there. Avenue de l'Opra (9th arrondissement, right bank) is the area around the Opra Garnier and the location of the capital's densest concentration of both department stores and offices. A few examples are the Printemps and Galeries Lafayette grands magasins (department stores), and the Paris headquarters of financial giants such as BNP Paribas and American Express. Quartier Latin (5th and 6th arrondissements, left bank) is a 12th-century scholastic centre formerly stretching between the Left Bank's Place Maubert and the Sorbonne campus. It is known for its lively atmosphere and many bistros. Various higher-education establishments, such as Sciences Po Paris, the cole Normale Suprieure, Mines ParisTech, and the Jussieu university campus, make it a major educational centre in Paris. Faubourg Saint-Honor (8th arrondissement, right bank) is one of Paris' high-fashion districts, home to labels such as Herms and Christian Lacroix. In the Paris area La Dfense (straddling the communes of Courbevoie, Puteaux, and Nanterre, 2.5km (2mi) west of the city proper) is a key suburb of Paris and one of the largest business centres in the world. Built at the western end of a westward extension of Paris' historical axis from the Champs-lyses, La Dfense consists mainly of business high-rises. Initiated by the French government in 1958, the district hosts 3,500,000 m2 (37,673,686sqft) of offices, making it the largest district in Europe developed specifically for business. The Grande Arche (Great Arch) of la Dfense, housing a part of the French Transports Minister's headquarters, ends at the central Esplanade, around which the district is organised. Plaine Saint-Denis (straddling the communes of Saint-Denis, Aubervilliers, and Saint-Ouen, immediately north of the 18th arrondissement, across the Priphrique ring road) is a former derelict manufacturing area that has undergone large-scale urban renewal in the last 10years. It now hosts the Stade de France, around which is being built the new business district of LandyFrance, with two RER stations (on RER lines B and D) and possibly some skyscrapers. In the Plaine Saint-Denis are also located most of France's television studios as well as some major movie studios. Val de Seine (straddling the 15th arrondissement and the communes of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Boulogne-Billancourt to the southwest of central Paris) is the new media hub of Paris and France, hosting the

Paris headquarters of most of France's TV networks (TF1 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France 2 in the 15th arrondissement, Canal+ and the international channels France 24 and Eurosport in Issy-les-Moulineaux), as well as several telecommunication and IT companies such as Neuf Cegetel in Boulogne-Billancourt or Microsoft's Europe, Africa & Middle East regional headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

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Monuments and landmarks

Three of the most famous Parisian landmarks are the 12th-century cathedral Notre Dame de Paris on the le de la Cit, the Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe and the 19th-century Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was a "temporary" construction by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Avenue des Champs-lyses during Christmas. Universal Exposition, but the tower was never dismantled and is now an enduring symbol of Paris. The Axe historique (Historical axis) is a line of monuments, buildings, and thoroughfares that run in a roughly straight line from the city-centre westwards. The line of monuments begins with the Louvre and continues through the Tuileries Gardens, the Champs-lyses, and the Arc de Triomphe, centred in the Place de l'toile circus. From the 1960s, the line was prolonged even farther west to the La Dfense business district dominated by a square-shaped triumphal Grande Arche of its own; this district hosts most of the tallest skyscrapers in the Paris urban area. The Invalides museum is the burial place for many great French soldiers, including Napoleon; and the Panthon church is where many of France's illustrious men and women are buried.
The Panthon

The former Conciergerie prison held some prominent Ancien Rgime members before their deaths during the French Revolution. Another symbol of the Revolution are the two Statues of Liberty located on the le aux Cygnes on the Seine and in the Luxembourg Garden. A larger version of the statues was sent as a gift from France to America in 1886 and now stands in New York City's harbour. The Palais Garnier, built in the later Second Empire period, houses the Paris Opra and the Paris Opera Ballet, while the former palace of the Louvre now houses one of the most renowned museums in the world. The Sorbonne is the most famous part of the University of Paris and is based in the centre of the Latin Quarter. Apart from Notre Dame de Paris, there are several other ecclesiastical masterpieces, including the Gothic 13th-century Sainte-Chapelle palace chapel and the glise de la Madeleine.

Panorama of Paris which shows some of its landmarks

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Parks and gardens

Two of Paris' oldest and famous gardens are the Tuileries Garden, created in the 16th century for a palace on the banks of the Seine near the Louvre, and the Left bank Luxembourg Garden, another former private garden belonging to a chteau built for Marie de' Medici in 1612. The Jardin des Plantes, created by Louis XIII's doctor Guy de La Brosse for the cultivation of medicinal plants, was Paris' first public garden. A few of Paris' other large gardens are Second Empire creations: The Jardin du Luxembourg. former suburban parks of Montsouris, Parc des Buttes Chaumont, and Parc Monceau (formerly known as the "folie de Chartres") are creations of Napoleon III's engineer Jean-Charles Alphand. Another project executed under the orders of Baron Haussmann was the re-sculpting of Paris' western Bois de Boulogne forest-parklands; the Bois de Vincennes, on the city's opposite eastern end, received a similar treatment in years following. Newer additions to Paris' park landscape are the Parc de la Villette, built by the architect Bernard Tschumi on the location of Paris' former slaughterhouses; the Parc Andr Citron, and gardens being laid to the periphery along the traces of its former circular "Petite Ceinture" railway line: Promenade Plante.

Water and sanitation

Paris in its early history had only the Seine and Bivre rivers for water. Later forms of irrigation were a 1st-century Roman aqueduct from southerly Wissous (later left to ruin); sources from the Right bank hills from the late 11th century; from the 15th century, an aqueduct built roughly along the path of the abandoned Wissous aqueduct; also, from 1809, the canal de l'Ourcq, providing Paris with water from less-polluted rivers to the northeast of the capital, and "God's Tears", a bi-annual rainstorm, which stopped in the early 20th century as a natural phenomenon. Paris would have its first constant and plentiful source of drinkable water only from the late 19th century. From 1857, the civil engineer Eugne Belgrand, under NapoleonIII's Prfet Haussmann, oversaw the construction of a series of new aqueducts that brought water from locations all around the city to several reservoirs built atop the Capital's highest points of elevation. From then on, the new reservoir system became Paris' principal source Canal Saint-Martin of drinking water, and the remains of the old system, pumped into lower levels of the same reservoirs, were from then on used for the cleaning of Paris' streets. This system is still a major part of Paris' modern water-supply network. Paris has over 2,400km (1,491mi) of underground passageways[62] dedicated to the evacuation of Paris' liquid wastes. Most of these date from the late 19th century, a result of the combined plans of the Prfet Baron Haussmann and the civil engineer Eugne Belgrand to improve the then-very unsanitary conditions in the Capital. Maintained by a round-the-clock service since their construction, only a small percentage of Paris' sewer rseau has needed complete renovation. In 1982, then mayor Jacques Chirac introduced the motorcycle-mounted Motocrotte to remove dog faeces from Paris streets.[63] The project was abandoned in 2002 for a new and better enforced local law which now fines dog owners

Paris up to 500 euros for not removing their dog faeces. It was estimated at the time of their removal, that the fleet of 70 Motocrottes were cleaning up only 20% of dog faeces on Parisian street at an annual cost of 3million.[64] The air pollution in Paris, from the point of view of particulate matter (pm10), is the highest in France, with 38g/m[65]

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Cemeteries
Paris' main cemetery was located to its outskirts on its Left Bank from the beginning of its history, but this changed with the rise of Catholicism and the construction of churches towards the city-centre, many of them having adjoining burial grounds for use by their parishes. Generations of a growing city population soon filled these cemeteries to overflowing, creating sometimes very unsanitary conditions.
The Paris Catacombs hold the remains of Condemned from 1786, the contents of all Paris' parish cemeteries approximately 6 million people. were transferred to a renovated section of Paris' then suburban stone mines outside the Left Bank "Porte d'Enfer" city gate (today 14th arrondissement's place Denfert-Rochereau). Part of this network of tunnels and remains can be visited today on the official tour of the Catacombs. After a tentative creation of several smaller suburban cemeteries, Napoleon Bonaparte provided a more definitive solution in the creation of three massive Parisian cemeteries outside the city tax wall called the Wall of the Farmers-General. Open from 1804, these were the cemeteries of Pre Lachaise, Montmartre, Montparnasse, and later Passy.

When Paris annexed all communes to the inside of its much larger ring of suburban fortifications in 1860, its cemeteries were once again within its city walls. New suburban cemeteries were created in the early 20th century: The largest of these are the Cimetire Parisien de Saint-Ouen, the Cimetire Parisien de Bobigny-Pantin, the Cimetire Parisien d'Ivry, and the Cimetire Parisien de Bagneux.

Culture
Entertainment and performing arts
The largest opera houses of Paris are the 19th century Opra Garnier (historical Paris Opra) and modern Opra Bastille; the former tends towards the more classic ballets and operas, and the latter provides a mixed repertoire of classic and modern. In middle of 19th century, there were two other active and competing opera houses: Opra-Comique (which still exists to this day) and Thtre Lyrique (which in modern times changed its profile and name to Thtre de la Ville). Theatre traditionally has occupied a large place in Parisian culture. This still holds true today, and many of its most popular actors today are also stars of French television. Some of Paris' major theatres include Bobino, Thtre Mogador, and the Thtre de la Gat-Montparnasse. Some Parisian theatres have also doubled as concert halls. Many of France's greatest musical legends, such as dith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Georges Brassens, and Charles Aznavour, found their fame in Parisian concert halls: Legendary yet still-showing examples of these are Le Lido, Bobino, l'Olympia and le Splendid.
The Opra Garnier.

Paris The lyses-Montmartre, much reduced from its original size, is a concert hall today. The New Morning is one of few Parisian clubs still holding jazz concerts, but the same also specialises in "indie" music. In more recent times, the Le Znith hall in the La Villette district of Paris and a "parc-omnisports" stadium in Bercy serve as large-scale rock concert halls. Several yearly festivals take place in Paris, such as Rock en Seine. Parisians tend to share the same movie-going trends as many of the world's global cities, that is to say with a dominance of Hollywood-generated film entertainment. French cinema comes a close second, with major directors (ralisateurs) such as Claude Lelouch, Franois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Luc Besson, and the more slapstick/popular genre with director Claude Zidi as an example. European and Asian films are also widely shown and appreciated. A specialty of Paris is its very large network of small movie theaters. In a given week, the movie fan has the choice between around 300 old or new movies from all over the world.

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Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)

Many of Paris' concert/dance halls were transformed into movie theatres when the media became popular beginning in the 1930s. Later, most of the largest cinemas were divided into multiple, smaller rooms: Paris' largest cinema today is by far le Grand Rex theatre with 2,800 seats, whereas other cinemas all have fewer than 1,000 seats. There is now a trend toward modern multiplexes that contain more than 10 or 20 screens. Antoine Lumire realized, on 28 December 1895, the first projection, with the Cinematograph, in Paris.[66] Philippe Binant realized, on 2 February 2000, the first digital cinema projection in Europe, with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments, in Paris.[67]

Cuisine
Paris' culinary reputation has its base in the diverse origins of its inhabitants. In its beginnings, it owed much to the 19th-century organisation of a railway system that had Paris as a centre, making the capital a focal point for immigration from France's many different regions and gastronomical cultures. This reputation continues through today in a cultural diversity that has since spread to a worldwide level thanks to Paris' continued reputation for culinary finesse and further immigration from increasingly distant climes.
Caf Les Deux Magots in

Hotels were another result of widespread travel and tourism, especially Saint-Germain-des-Prs. Paris' late-19th-century Expositions Universelles (World's Fairs). Of the most luxurious of these, the Htel Ritz appeared in the Place Vendme in 1898, and the Htel de Crillon opened its doors on the north side of the Place de la Concorde, starting in 1909.

Tourism

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UNESCO World Heritage Site

Paris, Banks of the Seine

Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
[68]

Notre Dame de Paris on the le de la Cit, on the River Seine Country Type Criteria Reference France Cultural i, ii, iv 600 [70] [69]

UNESCO region

Europe and North America

Inscription history
Inscription 1991 (15th Session)

Since 1848, Paris has been a popular destination by rail network, with Paris at its centre. Among Paris' first mass attractions drawing international interest were the above-mentioned Expositions Universelles that were the origin of Paris' many monuments, namely the Eiffel Tower from 1889. These, in addition to the capital's Second Empire embellishments, did much to make the city itself the attraction it is today. Paris receives around 28 million tourists per year[71] (42 in the whole Paris Region),[72] of which 17 million are foreign visitors.[73] Its museums and monuments are among its highest-esteemed attractions; tourism has motivated both the city and national governments to create new ones. The city's most prized museum, the Louvre, welcomes over 8million visitors a year, being by far the world's most-visited art museum. The city's cathedrals are another main attraction: Notre Dame de Paris and the Basilique du Sacr-Coeur receive 12million and eightmillion visitors, respectively. The Eiffel Tower, by far Paris' most famous monument, averages over sixmillion visitors per year and more than 200million since its construction. Disneyland Paris is a major tourist attraction for visitors to not only Paris but also the rest of Europe, with 14.5million visitors in 2007. The Louvre is one of the world's largest and most famous museums, housing many works of art, including the Mona Lisa (La Joconde) and the Venus de Milo statue. Works by Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin are found in Muse Picasso and Muse Rodin, respectively, while the artistic community of Montparnasse is chronicled at the Muse du Montparnasse. Starkly apparent with its service-pipe exterior, the Centre Georges Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, houses the Muse National d'Art Moderne. Art and artifacts from the Middle Ages and Impressionist eras are kept in Muse de Cluny and Muse d'Orsay, respectively, the former with the prized tapestry cycle The Lady and the Unicorn. Paris' newest (and third-largest) museum, the Muse du quai Branly, opened its doors in June 2006 and houses art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Many of Paris' once-popular local establishments have come to cater to the tastes and expectations of tourists, rather than local patrons. Le Lido, the Moulin Rouge cabaret-dancehall, for example, is a staged dinner theatre spectacle, a dance display that was once but one aspect of the cabaret's former atmosphere. All of the establishment's former

Paris social or cultural elements, such as its ballrooms and gardens, are gone today. Much of Paris' hotel, restaurant and night entertainment trades have become heavily dependent on tourism.

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Sports
Paris' most popular sport clubs are the association football club Paris Saint-Germain FC, the basketball team Paris-Levallois Basket, and the rugby union club Stade Franais. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located in Saint-Denis. It is used for football, rugby union and track and field athletics. It hosts annually French national rugby team's home matches of the Six Nations Championship, French national association football team for friendlies and major tournaments qualifiers, and several important matches of the

Stade de France.

Stade Franais rugby team. In addition to Paris Saint-Germain FC, the city has a number of other amateur football clubs: Paris FC, Red Star, RCF Paris and Stade Franais Paris. The last is the football section of the omnisport club of the same name, most notable for its rugby team. The Paris region currently boasts two teams in the top level of French rugby union, Top 14. Currently, the most prominent side is Stade Franais, which is also the only one of the two to be based in the city proper. The other Top 14 team in the region is Racing Mtro 92, currently based in the western suburb of Colombes. Racing Mtro is the successor to Racing Club de France, which contested the first-ever French championship final against Stade Franais in 1892. Paris also hosted the 1900 and 1924 Olympic Games and was venue for the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups and for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Although the starting point and the route of the famous Tour de France varies each year, the final stage always finishes in Paris, and, since 1975, the race has finished on the Champs-Elyses. Tennis is another popular sport in Paris and throughout France. The French Open, held every year on the red clay of the Roland Garros National Tennis Centre near the Bois de Boulogne, is one of the four Grand Slam events of the world professional tennis tour. The 2006 UEFA Champions League Final between Arsenal and FC Barcelona was played in the Stade de France. Paris hosted the 2007 Rugby World Cup final at Stade de France on 20 October 2007.

Economy
With a 2010 GDP of 572.4billion[11] (US$759.9billion), the Paris region has one of the highest GDPs in the world, making it an engine of the global economy; were it a country, it would rank as the seventeenth-largest economy in the world, larger than the Turkish economy and almost as large as the Dutch economy.[74] The Paris Region is France's premier centre of economic activity: While its population accounted for 18.8% of the total population of metropolitan France in 2010,[75] its GDP accounted for 30.2% of metropolitan French Ministry of Finance France's GDP.[11] Activity in the Paris urban area, though diverse, does not have a leading specialised industry (such as Los Angeles with entertainment industries or London and New York with financial industries in addition to their other activities). Recently, the Paris economy has been shifting towards high-value-added service industries (finance, IT services, etc.) and high-tech manufacturing (electronics, optics, aerospace, etc.).

Paris The Paris region's most intense economic activity through the central Hauts-de-Seine dpartement and suburban La Dfense business district places Paris' economic centre to the west of the city, in a triangle between the Opra Garnier, La Dfense and the Val de Seine. Paris' administrative borders have little consequences on the limits of its economic activity: Although most workers commute from the suburbs to work in the city, many commute from the city to work in the suburbs. While the Paris economy is largely dominated by services, it remains an important manufacturing powerhouse of Europe, especially in industrial sectors such as automobiles, aeronautics, and electronics. Over recent decades, the local economy has moved towards high-value-added activities, in particular business services. Paris is the first in Europe in terms of research and development capability and expenditure[72] and is considered one of the best cities in the world for innovation.[76] The Paris Region hosts the headquarters of 33 of the Fortune Global 500 companies.[77] The 1999 census indicated that, of the 5,089,170 persons employed in the Paris urban area, 16.5% worked in business services; 13.0% in commerce (retail and wholesale trade); 12.3% in manufacturing; 10.0% in public administrations and defence; 8.7% in health services; 8.2% in transportation and communications; 6.6% in education, and the remaining 24.7% in many other economic sectors. In the manufacturing sector, the largest employers were the electronic and electrical industry (17.9% of the total manufacturing workforce in 1999) and the publishing and printing industry (14.0% of the total manufacturing workforce), with the remaining 68.1% of the manufacturing workforce distributed among many other industries. Tourism and tourist related services employ 6.2% of Paris' workforce, and 3.6% of all workers within the Paris Region.[78] Unemployment in the Paris "immigrant ghettos" ranges from 20 to 40%, according to varying sources.[79]

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La Dfense, the largest dedicated business district in Europe.[]

Health
Health care and emergency medical service in the city of Paris and its suburbs are provided by the Assistance publique - Hpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), a public hospital system that employs more than 90,000 people (including practitioners, support personnel, and administrators) in 44 hospitals. It is the largest hospital system in Europe.

Sociology
With a Gini coefficient of 0.49, Paris is the second most unequal city in France after Neuilly-sur-Seine.[80] The Western part of the city, notably the 7th is by far the richest. It has long been known as French high society's favorite place of residence, comparable to New York's Upper East Side, LA's Beverly Hills[81] or London's Mayfair and Belgravia, to such an extent it has been associated with great wealth, elitism and social hegemony in French popular culture as well as in some masterpieces of French literature such as Balzac's La comdie humaine or Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The cultural, social and economic influence[82] of the area has played a prominent role throughout French history and is still highly vivid in nowadays' French elite. Western Paris standards of life were also highly influential in educating foreign elites, especially in Europe, Russia and Northern America (see Frick Collection). And so Paris Ouest (Western Paris) should be seen as not only a geographic area but also a social attitude[83] symbolized by French high society's habits and way of life. The "Rive Gauche" (Left Bank of the Seine) generally implies a sense of bohemianism and creativity as it was the Paris of artists, writers, philosophers and students. The counterpart of the Rive Gauche of Paris is the Rive Droite

Paris (Right Bank), a term used to refer to a level of elegance and sophistication not found in the more bohemian Left Bank.

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Demographics

City proper, urban area, and metropolitan area population from 1800 to 2010.

Demographics within the Paris Region (according to the INSEE 2008 census)

Note that the map above is outdated. It shows the extent of the urban and metropolitan areas of Paris as of the 1999 census.

le-de-France departments
Areas City of Paris (department 75) Inner ring (Petite couronne) (Depts. 92, 93, 94) Population 2008 census 2,211,297 Area 105km2 (41sqmi) Density 20,169/km2 (52,240/sqmi) 1999-2008 pop. growth +0.45%/year

4,366,961

657km2 (254sqmi) 6,647/km2 (17,220/sqmi)

+0.89%/year

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5,081,002 +0.68%/year

Outer ring (Grande couronne) (Depts. 77, 78, 91, 95) le-de-France (entire region)

11,250km2 (4,344sqmi)

452/km2 (1,170/sqmi)

11,659,260

12,012km2 (4,638sqmi)

971/km2 (2,510/sqmi)

+0.71%/year

Statistical Areas (INSEE 2008 census)

Areas Urban area (Paris agglomeration) Metro area (Paris metropolitan area) Population 2008 census Area Density 3,640/km2 (9,400/sqmi) 704/km2 (1,820/sqmi) 1999-2008 pop. growth +0.70%/year +0.71%/year

10,354,675 2,844.8km2 (1,098sqmi) 12,089,098 17,174.4km2 (6,631sqmi)

The population of the city of Paris was 2,125,246 at the 1999 census, lower than its historical peak of 2.9million in 1921. The city's population loss mirrors the experience of most other core cities in the developed world that have not expanded their boundaries. The principal factors in the process are a significant decline in household size, and a dramatic migration of residents to the suburbs between 1962 and 1975. Factors in the migration include de-industrialisation, high rent, the gentrification of many inner quarters, the transformation of living space into offices, and greater affluence among working families. The city's population loss was one of the most severe among international municipalities and the largest for any that had achieved more than 2,000,000 residents. These losses are generally seen as negative for the city; the city administration is trying to reverse them with some success, as the population estimate of July 2004 showed a population increase for the first time since 1954, reaching a total of 2,144,700 inhabitants.

Density
Paris is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Its density, excluding the outlying woodland parks of Boulogne and Vincennes, was 24,448 inhabitants per square kilometre (63,320/sq mi) in the 1999 official census, which could be compared only with some Asian megapoli and the New York City borough of Manhattan. Even including the two woodland areas, its population density was 20,164 inhabitants per square kilometre (52,224.5/sq mi), the fifth-most-densely populated commune in France following Le Pr-Saint-Gervais, Vincennes, Levallois-Perret, and Saint-Mand, all of which border the city proper. The most sparsely populated quarters are the western and central office and administration-focused arrondissements. The city's population is densest in the northern and eastern arrondissements; the 11th arrondissement had a density of 40,672 inhabitants per square kilometre (105,340/sq mi) in 1999, and some of the same arrondissement's eastern quarters had densities close to 100,000/km2 (260,000/sqmi) in the same year.

Paris agglomeration
The city of Paris covers an area much smaller than the urban area of which it is the core. At present, Paris' real urbanisation, defined by the ple urbain (urban area) statistical area, covers 2,845km2 (1,098sqmi),[84] or an area about 27 times larger than the city itself. The administration of Paris' urban growth is divided between itself and its surrounding dpartements: Paris' closest ring of three adjoining departments, or petite couronne ("small ring") are fully saturated with urban growth, and the ring of four departments outside of these, the grande couronne dpartements, are only covered in their inner regions by Paris' urbanisation. These eight dpartements form the larger administrative le-de-France rgion; most of this region is filled, and overextended in places, by the Paris aire urbaine.

Paris The Paris agglomeration has shown a steady rate of growth since the end of the late 16th century French Wars of Religion, save brief setbacks during the French Revolution and World War II. Suburban development has accelerated in recent years: With an estimated total of 11.4million inhabitants for 2005, the le-de-France rgion shows a rate of growth double that of the 1990s.[85][86]

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Immigration
By law, French censuses do not ask questions regarding ethnicity or religion, but do gather information concerning one's country of birth. From this it is still possible to determine that Paris and its aire urbaine (metropolitan area) is one of the most multi-cultural in Europe: At the 1999 census, 19.4% of its total population was born outside of metropolitan France.[87] At the same census, 4.2% of the Paris aire urbaine's population were recent immigrants (people who had immigrated to France between 1990 and 1999),[88] the majority from Asia and Africa.[89] 37% of all immigrants in France live in the Paris region.[79] The first wave of international migration to Paris started as early as 1820 with the arrivals of German peasants fleeing an agricultural crisis in their homeland. Several waves of immigration followed continuously until today: Italians and central European Jews during the 19th century; Russians after the revolution of 1917 and Armenians fleeing genocide in the Ottoman Empire;[90] colonial citizens during World War I and later; Poles between the two world wars; Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, and North Africans from the 1950s to the 1970s; North African Jews after the independence of those countries; Africans and Asians since then.[91] The Paris metropolitan region or "aire urbaine" is estimated to be home to some 1.7million Muslims of all races, making up between 10%15% of the area's population. However, without official data, the margin of error of these estimates is extremely high as it is based on one's country of birth (someone born in a Muslim country or born to a parent from a Muslim country is considered as a "potential Muslim").[92] According to the North American Jewish Data Bank, an estimated 310,000 Jews also live in Paris and the surrounding le-de-France region, an area with a population of 11.7million inhabitants. Paris has historically been a magnet for immigrants, hosting one of the largest concentrations of immigrants in Europe today.[93][94][95] Immigrants and their children in dpartements of le-de-France (Greater Paris) According to INSEE, French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, responsible for the production and analysis of official statistics in France, 20% of people living in the city of Paris are immigrants and 41.3% of people under 20 have at least one immigrant parent.[96] Among the young people under 18, 12.1% are of Maghrebi origin, 9.9% of Subsaharan African origin (not including persons from French West Indies) and 4.0% of South European origin.[97] About four million people, or 35% of the population of the le-de-France, are either immigrants (17%) or have at least one immigrant parent (18%).[98] According to a study in 2008, nearly 56% of all newborns in le-de-France in 2007 had at least one parent of immigrant origin.[99]
Dpartement Immigrants Number % dpartement % le-de-France Paris (75) 436'576 20 26.5 16.3 18.1 16.1 11.6 12.6 10.7 22.4 20.2 12.8 12 9.5 8.3 7.7 7 Children under 20 with at least one immigrant parent Number 162'635 234'837 124'501 127'701 124'644 98'755 94'003 90'319 % dpartement 41.3 57.1 34 40 38.5 26.4 29.6 26 % le-de-France 15.4 22.2 11.8 12.1 11.8 9.3 8.9 8.5

Seine-Saint-Denis (93) 394'831 Hauts-de-Seine (92) Val-de-Marne (94) Val-dOise (95) Yvelines (78) Essonne (91) Seine-et-Marne (77) 250'190 234'633 185'890 161'869 150'980 135'654

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le-de-France 1'950'623 16.9 100 1'057'394 37.1 100

(source : Insee, EAR 2006) Reading: 436 576 immigrants live in Paris, representing 20% of Parisians and 22.4% of immigrants in le-de-France. 162 635 children under 20 with at least one immigrant parent live in Paris, representing 41.3% of the total of children under 20 in Paris and 15.4% of the total of children under 20 with at least one immigrant parent in le-de-France.

Administration
Paris, its administrative limits unchanged since 1860 (save for the addition of two large parks), is one of a few cities that have not evolved politically with their real demographic growth; this issue is at present being discussed in plans for a "Grand Paris" (Greater Paris) which could extend Paris' administrative limits to embrace much more of its urban tissue.[100]

Capital of France
Paris is the seat of France's national government. For the executive, the two chief officers each have their own official residences, which also serve as their offices. The President of France resides at the lyse Palace in the 8th arrondissement, while the Prime Minister's seat is at the Htel Matignon in the 7th arrondissement. Government ministries are located in various parts of the city; many are located in the 7th arrondissement, near the Matignon. The two houses of the French Parliament are also located on the Left Bank. The upper house, the Senate, meets in the Palais du Luxembourg The lyse Palace, residence of the French in the 6th arrondissement, while the more important lower house, the President. Assemble Nationale, meets in the Palais Bourbon in the 7th. The President of the Senate, the second-highest public official in France after the President of the Republic, resides in the "Petit Luxembourg", a smaller palace annex to the Palais du Luxembourg. France's highest courts are located in Paris. The Court of Cassation, the highest court in the judicial order, which reviews criminal and civil cases, is located in the Palais de Justice on the le de la Cit, while the Conseil d'tat, which provides legal advice to the executive and acts as the highest court in the administrative order, judging litigation against public bodies, is located in the Palais Royal in the 1st arrondissement. The Constitutional Council, an advisory body with ultimate authority on the constitutionality of laws and government decrees, also meets in the Palais Royal.

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City government
Paris has been a commune (municipality) since 1834 (and also briefly between 1790 and 1795). At the 1790 division (during the French Revolution) of France into communes, and again in 1834, Paris was a city only half its modern size, but, in 1860, it annexed bordering communes, some entirely, to create the new administrative map of twenty municipal arrondissements the city still has today. These municipal subdivisions describe a clockwise spiral outward from its most central, the 1st arrondissement.

The arrondissements of Paris.

In 1790, Paris became the prfecture (seat) of the Seine dpartement, which covered much of the Paris region. In 1968, it was split into four smaller ones: The city of Paris became a distinct dpartement of its own, retaining the Seine's departmental number of 75 (originating from the Seine dpartement's position in France's alphabetical list), while three new dpartements of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne were created and given the numbers 92, 93, and 94, respectively. The result of this division is that today Paris' limits as a dpartement are exactly those of its limits as a commune, a situation unique in France.

Municipal offices
Each of Paris' twenty arrondissements has a directly elected council (conseil d'arrondissement), which, in turn, elects an arrondissement mayor. A selection of members from each arrondissement council form the Council of Paris (conseil de Paris), which, in turn, elects the mayor of Paris. In medieval times, Paris was governed by a merchant-elected municipality whose head was the provost of the merchants. In addition to regulating city commerce, the provost of the merchants was responsible for some civic duties such as the guarding of city walls and the cleaning of city streets. The creation of the provost of Paris from the 13th century diminished the merchant Provost's responsibilities and powers considerably.
Composition of the Council of Paris Party Seats 72 55 9 8 8 5 2 2 1

Socialist Party Union for a Popular Movement The Greens French Communist Party New Centre Citizen and Republican Movement Miscellaneous Left Left Party MoDem

Paris A direct representative of the king, in a role resembling somewhat the prfet of later years, the Provost (prvt) of Paris oversaw the application and execution of law and order in the city and its surrounding prvt (county) from his office in the Grand Chtelet. Many functions from both provost offices were transferred to the office of the crown-appointed lieutenant general of police upon its creation in 1667. For centuries, the prvt and magistrates of the Chtelet clashed with the administrators of the Htel de Ville over jurisdiction;[101] the latter notably included the quartiniers, each of whom was responsible for one of the sixteen quartiers (which were in turn divided into four cinquantaines, each with its cinquantainier, and those in turn were divided into dizaines, administered by dizainiers): All of these men were in principle elected by the local bourgeois. At any one time, therefore, 336 men had shared administrative responsibility for street cleaning and maintenance, for public health, law, and order. The quartiniers maintained the official lists of bourgeois de Paris, ran local elections, could impose fines for breaches of the bylaws, and had a role in tax assessment. They met at the Htel de Ville to confer on matters of citywide importance and each year selected eight of "the most notable inhabitants of the quarter", who together with other local officials would elect the city council.[102] Even though in the course of the 18th century these elections became purely ceremonial, choosing candidates already selected by the royal government, the memory of genuine municipal independence remained strong: "The Htel de Ville continued to bulk large in the awareness of bourgeois Parisians, its importance extending far beyond its real role in city government."[103] Paris' last Prvt des marchands was assassinated the afternoon of the 14 July 1789 uprising that was the French Revolution Storming of the Bastille. Paris became an official "commune" from the creation of the administrative division on 14 December the same year, and its provisional "Paris commune" revolutionary municipality was replaced with the city's first municipal constitution and government from 9 October 1790.[104] Through the turmoil of the 1794 Thermidorian Reaction, it became apparent that revolutionary Paris' political independence was a threat to any governing power: The office of mayor was abolished the same year, and its municipal council one year later. Although the municipal council was recreated in 1834, for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Paris along with the larger Seine dpartement of which it was a centre was under the direct control of the state-appointed prfet of the Seine, in charge of general affairs there; the state-appointed Prefect of Police was in charge of police in the The Htel de Ville, Paris. same jurisdiction. Save for a few brief occasions, the city did not have a mayor until 1977, and the Paris Prefecture of Police is still under state control today. Despite its dual existence as commune and dpartement, Paris has a single council to govern both; the Council of Paris, presided over by the mayor of Paris, meets as either as a municipal council (conseil municipal) or a departmental council (conseil gnral), depending on the issue to be debated. Paris' modern administrative organisation still retains some traces of the former Seine dpartement jurisdiction. The Prefecture of Police (also directing Paris' fire brigades), for example, has still a jurisdiction extending to Paris' petite couronne of bordering three dpartements for some operations such as fire protection or rescue operations, and is still directed by France's national government. Paris has no municipal police force, although it does have its own brigade of traffic wardens.

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Capital of the le-de-France rgion

As part of a 1961 nation-wide administrative effort to consolidate regional economies, Paris as a dpartement became the capital of the new rgion of the District of Paris, renamed the le-de-France rgion in 1976. It encompasses the Paris dpartement and its seven closest dpartements. Its regional council members, since 1986, have been chosen by direct elections. The prefect of the Paris dpartement (who served as the prefect of the Seine dpartement before 1968) is also prefect of the le-de-France rgion, although the office lost much of its power following the creation of the office of mayor of Paris in 1977.

Intercommunality
Few of the above changes have taken into account Departments of le-de-France. Paris' existence as an agglomeration. Unlike in most of France's major urban areas such as Lille and Lyon, there is no intercommunal entity in the Paris urban area, no intercommunal council treating the problems of the region's dense urban core as a whole; Paris' alienation of its suburbs is indeed a problem today, and considered by many to be the main causes of civil unrest such as the suburban riots in 2005. A direct result of these unfortunate events is propositions for a more efficient metropolitan structure to cover the city of Paris and some of the suburbs, ranging from a socialist idea of a loose "metropolitan conference" (confrence mtropolitaine) to the right-wing idea of a more integrated Grand Paris ("Greater Paris"). One of the main reasons for such incoherence has been the fear felt by the French State in front of such a huge agglomeration and the desire to tap its wealth. Since the Middle Ages and particularly since the 1649 troubles (La Fronde), Paris has been considered as a source of danger. The authoritarian king Louis the XIVth built Versailles as a new political center, away from the dangerous city crowds. The conflict between the State and the City reached a climax with the Revolution of 1871 (La Commune) : the French Assembly in Bordeaux decided Paris would no longer be the capital city, while the Paris Commune discussed declaring Paris independent of France. Since then, one of the foundations of the centralized French State has been to widely distribute Paris wealth while depriving the agglomeration and keeping it divided into 8 departments and 1 200 communes. (For an analysis of the long hostility against Paris, see [105] ). Of the 22 metropolitan French regions, 19 are regularly subsidized mostly by Paris resources while Paris suburbs lack necessary equipment.

Education
In the early 9th century, the emperor Charlemagne mandated all churches to give lessons in reading, writing and basic arithmetic to their parishes, and cathedrals to give a higher-education in the finer arts of language, physics, music, and theology; at that time, Paris was already one of France's major cathedral towns and beginning its rise to fame as a scholastic centre. By the early 13th century, the le de la Cit Notre-Dame cathedral school had many famous teachers, and the controversial teachings of some of these led to the creation of a separate Left-Bank Sainte-Genevieve University that would become the centre of Paris' scholastic Latin Quarter best represented by the Sorbonne university. Twelve centuries later, education in Paris and the Paris region (le-de-France rgion) employs approximately 330,000 persons, 170,000 of whom are teachers and professors teaching approximately 2.9million children and

Paris students in around 9,000 primary, secondary, and higher education schools and institutions.[106]

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Primary and secondary education

Paris is home to several of France's most prestigious high-schools such as Lyce Louis-le-Grand, Lyce Henri-IV, Lyce Janson de Sailly and Lyce Condorcet. Other high-schools of international renown in the Paris area include the Lyce International de Saint Germain-en-Laye and the cole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel.
The Lyce Louis-le-Grand.

Higher-education
As of the academic year 20042005, the Paris Region's 17 public universities, with its 359,749 registered students,[107] comprise the largest concentration of university students in Europe.[108] The Paris Region's prestigious grandes coles and scores of university-independent private and public schools have an additional 240,778 registered students, that, together with the university population, creates a grand total of 600,527 students in higher education that year.[107]

Universities
The cathedral of Notre-Dame was the first centre of higher-education before the creation of the University of Paris. The universitas was chartered by King Philip Augustus in 1200, as a corporation granting teachers (and their students) the right to rule themselves independently from crown law and taxes. At the time, many classes were held in open air. Non-Parisian students and teachers would stay in hostels, or "colleges", created for the boursiers coming from afar. Already famous by the 13th century, the University of Paris had students from all of Europe. Paris' Rive Gauche scholastic centre, dubbed "Latin Quarter" as classes were taught in Latin then, would eventually regroup around the college created by Robert de Sorbon from 1257, the Collge de Sorbonne. The University of Paris in the 19th century had six faculties: law, science, medicine, pharmaceutical studies, literature, and theology. Following the 1968 student riots, there was an extensive reform of the University of Paris, in an effort to disperse the centralised student body. The following year, the former unique University of Paris was Paris-Sorbonne University. split between thirteen autonomous universities ("Paris I" to "Paris XIII") located throughout the City of Paris and its suburbs. Each of these universities inherited only some of the departments of the old University of Paris, and are not generalist universities. Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris II Pantheon-Assas, Paris-Descartes, and Paris-Nanterre, inherited the Law School; Paris Descartes University inherited the School of Medicine as well; Pierre and Marie Curie University and Paris-Diderot the scientific departments, the Paris-Sorbonne University inherited the Arts and Humanities, etc.

Paris In 1991, four more universities were created in the suburbs of Paris, reaching a total of seventeen public universities for the Paris (le-de-France) rgion. These new universities were given names (based on the name of the suburb in which they are located) and not numbers like the previous thirteen: University of Cergy-Pontoise, University of vry Val d'Essonne, University of Marne-la-Valle, cole suprieure Robert De Sorbon and University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

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Grandes coles
The Paris region hosts France's highest concentration of the prestigious grandes coles specialised centres of higher-education outside the public university structure. The prestigious public universities are usually considered grands tablissements. Most of the grandes coles were relocated to the suburbs of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, in new campuses much larger than the old campuses within the crowded city of Paris, though the cole Normale Suprieure has remained on rue d'Ulm in the 5th arrondissement. The Paris area hosts 55 grandes coles, including a high number of engineering schools, led by the prestigious Paris Institute of Technology (ParisTech) which comprises several colleges such as cole Polytechnique, cole des Mines, AgroParisTech, Tlcom Paris, Arts et Mtiers, and cole des Ponts et Chausses. There are also many business schools, including INSEAD, ESSEC, HEC and ESCP Europe. The administrative school such as ENA has been relocated to Strasbourg, the political science school Sciences-Po is still located in Paris' Left bank 7th arrondissement. The Parisian school of journalism CELSA department of the Paris-Sorbonne University is located in Neuilly-sur-Seine . The grandes coles system is supported by a number of preparatory schools that offer courses of two to three years' duration called Classes Prparatoires, also known as classes prpas or simply prpas. These courses provide entry to the grandes coles. Many of the best prpas are located in Paris, including Lyce Louis-le-Grand, Lyce Henri-IV, Lyce Saint-Louis, Lyce Janson de Sailly, and Lyce Stanislas.[109] Two other top-ranking prpas (Lyce Hoche and Lyce priv Sainte-Genevive) are located in Versailles, near Paris. Student selection is based on school grades and teacher remarks. Prpas are known to be very demanding in terms of work load and psychological stress.

Sainte-Genevive Library

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Libraries
The Bibliothque nationale de France (BnF) operates libraries in Paris, among them Franois-Mitterrand Library, Richelieu Library, Louvois, Opra Library, and Arsenal Library.[110] The American Library in Paris opened in 1920. It is a part of a private, non-profit organization.[111] The modern library originated from cases of books sent by the American Library Association to U.S. soldiers in France.[112] An incarnation existed in the 1850s.[113]

Transport
Paris is the head of barge and ship navigation on the Seine and is the fourth most important port in France (after Marseille, Le Havre, and Dunkerque). The Loire, Rhine, Rhone, Meuse and Scheldt rivers can be reached by canals connecting with the Seine. Paris is also a major rail, highway, and air transportation hub. Four international airports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Paris-Le Bourget and Beauvais-Till, serve the city. The city's subway system, the mtro, was opened in 1900.
[114] Paris has been building its transportation system throughout history Europe. and continuous improvements are on-going. The Syndicat des transports d'le-de-France (STIF), formerly Syndicat des transports parisiens (STP) oversees the transit network in the region.[115] The Gare du Nord train station is the busiest in

The members of this syndicate are the le-de-France region and the eight departments of this region. The syndicate coordinates public transport and contracts it out to the RATP (operating 654 bus lines, the Mtro, three tramway lines, and sections of the RER), the SNCF (operating suburban rails, one tramway line and the other sections of the RER) and the Optile consortium of private operators managing 1,070 minor bus lines. The Mtro is Paris' most important transportation system. The system, with 300 stations (384 stops) connected by 214km (133mi) of rails, Art Nouveau entrance of the Paris Mtro. comprises 16 lines, identified by numbers from 1 to 14, with two minor lines, 3bis and 7bis, so numbered because they used to be branches of their respective original lines, and only later became independent. In October 1998, the new line 14 was inaugurated after a 70year hiatus in inaugurating fully new mtro lines. Because of the short distance between stations on the Mtro network, lines were too slow to be extended further into the suburbs, as is the case in most other cities. As such, an additional express network, the RER, has been created since the 1960s to connect more-distant parts of the urban area. The RER consists in the integration of modern city-centre subway and pre-existing suburban rail. Nowadays, the RER network comprises five lines, 257 stops and 587km (365mi) of rails. In addition, the Paris region is served by a light rail network of four lines, the tramway: Line T1 runs from Saint-Denis to Noisy-le-Sec, line T2 runs from La Dfense to Porte de Versailles, line T3 runs from Pont du Garigliano to Porte d'Ivry, line T4 runs from Bondy to Aulnay-sous-Bois. Six new light rail lines are currently in various stages of development.

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27 Paris is a central hub of the national rail network. The six major railway stations Gare du Nord, Gare Montparnasse, Gare de l'Est, Gare de Lyon, Gare d'Austerlitz, and Gare Saint-Lazare are connected to three networks: The TGV serving four High-speed rail lines, the normal speed Corail trains, and the suburban rails (Transilien). Paris is served by two major airports: Orly Airport, which is south of Paris; and the Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy-en-France, which is one of the busiest in the world and is the Vlib' at Place de la Bastille. hub for the unofficial flag carrier Air France. A third and much smaller airport, Beauvais Till Airport, located in the town of Beauvais, 70km (43mi) to the north of the city, is used by charter and low-cost airlines. The fourth airport, Le Bourget, nowadays hosts only business jets, air trade shows and the aerospace museum. The city is also the most important hub of France's motorway network, and is surrounded by three orbital freeways: the Priphrique, which follows the approximate path of 19th-century fortifications around Paris, the A86 motorway in the inner suburbs, and finally the Francilienne motorway in the outer suburbs. Paris has an extensive road network with over 2,000km (1,243mi) of highways and motorways. By road, Brussels can be reached in three hours, Frankfurt in sixhours and Barcelona in 12hours. By train, London is now just two hours and 15 minutes away, Brussels can be reached in 1 hour and 22 minutes (up to 26 departures/day), Amsterdam in 3 hours and 18 minutes (up to 10 departures/day), Cologne in 3 hours and 14 minutes (6 departures/day), and Marseille, Bordeaux, and other cities in southern France in three hours.

Cycling
Paris offers a bike sharing system called Vlib' with more than 20,000 public bicycles distributed at 1,450 parking stations, which can be rented for short and medium distances including one way trips.

International relations
Paris and its region host the headquarters of many international organisations including : the UNESCO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Paris Club, the European Space Agency, the International Energy Agency, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, the European Union Institute for Security Studies, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the International Exhibition Bureau and the International Federation for Human Rights. Paris has numerous partner cities,[116][117] but according to the motto "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris.",[118][119][120] the only sister city of Paris is Rome and vice-versa.

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Further reading
Vincent Cronin (1989). Paris on the Eve, 19001914. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN0-312-04876-9. Vincent Cronin (1994). Paris:City of Light, 19191939. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN0-00-215191-X. Jean Favier (23 April 1997) (in French). Paris. Fayard. ISBN2-213-59874-6. Jacques Hillairet (22 April 2005) (in French). Connaissance du Vieux Paris. Rivages. ISBN2-86930-648-2. Colin Jones (2004). Paris: The Biography of a City. New York: Penguin Viking. ISBN0-670-03393-6.

Bernard Marchand (1993) (in French). Paris, histoire d'une ville : XIXe-XXe sicle. Paris: Le Seuil. ISBN978-2-02-012864-3. Rosemary Wakeman (2009). The Heroic City: Paris, 19451958. University of Chicago Press. ISBN978-0-226-87023-6.

External links
Official Paris website (http://www.paris.fr/portail/english/Portal.lut?page_id=8118) Paris (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/France/Regions/Ile-de-France/Paris/) at the Open Directory Project

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