The History of Paris

The city of Paris, in France, probably has the greatest single history of any city in the world today. Culturaly as well as historically, Paris has always been a beautiful city with many different monuments with many different origins. Icons such as the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe have stood erect for many centuries and are a beacon in Paris' long, and turbulent history. Founded on the island where a natural north-south highway crosses the Seine River, some 233 miles (375 kilometres) upstream fro

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m the river mouth on the English Channel, Paris, is over 2,000 years old. He ruled France for 18 years of stable prosperity. Running down the street, the rioters cheered and every once and a while chopped off a head or two in excitement.

The French Revolution was an exciting, dramatic, and violent episode in western history. On one fateful day in July of 1789, peasants finally crossed the line to insanity when a mob of men and women, looking for weapons and prisoners taken by King Louis XVI, stormed the Bastille, a French prison in the middle of Paris. In 1848, Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, was elected the first president of the Second Republic. The rise of the middle class, the use of the guillotine, the fall of monarchy, the outbreak of European warfare, the growing role of women, and the harsh realities of mob violence all contributed to making this episode truly significant and memorable. Intellectuals were dissatisfied with the scope of absolutist controls, the bourgeoisie was antagonized by the excessive financial burdens that fell upon them, the peasants decried the various feudal obligations that remained, and the urban workers struggled to survive amidst inflating prices and stagnant wages. In 1852, he was proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III by national plebiscite. The following July Monarchy, had an elected King, Louis Philippe, (the Duke of Orleans). Raiding the prison, over three hundere!

d rioters destroyed the prison and captured gaurds. It was the financial issues that forced the King to call a meeting of the Estates General, a national assembly that had not met since 1614.

The Revolution ended in 1799 when Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris and was crowned First Consul at the age of thirty.

By 1789 the French Government of Louis XVI was in trouble. Louis XVIII's constitutional monarchy was overthrown under Charles X, whose conservatism was a reminiscence of the old regime and lead to the July Revolution of 1830.

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