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Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the church of Les Invalides, and the Panthéon, and the founding of the Louvre Museum.
In the 18th century, Paris was the centre of the intellectual ferment known as the Enlightenment, and the main stage of the French Revolution from 1789, which is remembered every year on the 14th of July with a military parade. In the 19th century, Napoleon embellished the city with monuments to military glory. It became the European capital of ...
Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique (published 1767 in Geneva and 1768 in Paris) was a leading text in the late 18th century. [187] This widely available dictionary gave short definitions of words like genius and taste and was clearly influenced by the Enlightenment movement.
The musical life of Paris at the beginning of the 18th century was gloomy; the court was at Versailles, and frivolity was officially frowned upon by Louis XIV and his second wife, the Marquise de Maintenon, and the religious party at court. The King's favorite composer, Lully, fell into disgrace because of his unorthodox lifestyle.
Thomas Crow: Painters and Public Life in 18th Century Paris. Yale University Press 1987; Patricia Mainardi: The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Fae Brauer, Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
Tomb of Sainte Geneviève in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, near the Panthéon A 13th century statue of Childebert I, founder of the future Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés The coronation of Hugh Capet, the Count of Paris, as King of the Franks in 987. He died in Paris in 996 and was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis.(Illustration ...
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Williams also sought to demonstrate, using Genevieve's objects, the inseparability of religion from 18th-century Paris life. [58] Statue of Saint Genevieve inside Notre-Dame Cathedral. Sluhovsky states that as times changed in Paris, the way in which she was invoked also changed.