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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He ruled France for 18 years of stable prosperity. One of the most troubled times in French and Parisian history is the French Revolution which, although mainly undertaken in Paris, spanned across the entire country and effected many other nations as well. There is no doubt in anyone's mind, French or foreign that this day was one of the worst in French 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. Raiding the prison, over three hundere!

d rioters destroyed the prison and captured gaurds. 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 1848, Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, was elected the first president of the Second Republic. Needless to say there was tremendous excitement about that meeting as hopes for change arose from all sides. 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. A brilliant politician and a military genius, he took the title of emperor Napoleon I in 1804.

The French Revolution was an exciting, dramatic, and violent episode in western history. Significant discontent was evident throughout the country. Running down the street, the rioters cheered and every once and a while chopped off a head or two in excitement. It was he who!

commissioned Baron Haussman to redesign Paris and started the French industrial revolution. The following July Monarchy, had an elected King, Louis Philippe, (the Duke of Orleans).

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