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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.
2 September – Beer served for first time in Paris at the Café de la Rotonde. [130] 31 October – Premiere of La Vie parisienne by Jacques Offenbach at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. 4 November – Inauguration of place du Roi de Rome (now place du Trocadéro). A fête given by Napoleon III at the Tuileries Palace (1867) 1867
In the 16th century, Paris became the book-publishing capital of Europe, though it was shaken by the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Protestants. 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 ...
The American inventor, Robert Fulton, who was in Paris to try to sell his inventions, the steamboat, a submarine and a torpedo, to Napoleon, bought the patent in 1799 from the inventor of the panorama, the English artist Robert Barker, and opened the first panorama in Paris in July 1799; it was a Vue de Paris by the painters Constant Bourgeois ...
In 18th-century Paris, buildings were usually narrow (often only six meters wide [20 feet]); deep (sometimes forty meters; 130 feet) and tall—as many as five or six stories. The ground floor usually contained a shop, and the shopkeeper lived in the rooms above the shop.
Paris during the reign of King Louis-Philippe (1830–1848) was the city described in the novels of Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo.Its population increased from 785,000 in 1831 to 1,053,000 in 1848, as the city grew to the north and west, while the poorest neighborhoods in the center became even more crowded.
Paris between the Wars (1918–1939) Paris during the Bourbon Restoration; Paris during the Second Empire; Paris in the Belle Époque; Paris in the 16th century; Paris in the 17th century; Paris in the 18th century; Paris under Louis-Philippe; Paris under Napoleon
Arthur Mingeaud (1871), Condensed History of Paris, Quebec: Printed at "Morning Chronicle" Office; Handbook for Visitors to Paris, London: John Murray, 1879, OL 24363358M; Bradshaw's Illustrated Guide through Paris and its Environs, London: W.J. Adams and Sons, 1880, OCLC 19043482, OL 23282675M; Cassell's Illustrated Guide to Paris.