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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 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 ...
The city walls of Paris include: a Gaulish enclosure (precise location unknown) a Gallo-Roman wall; two medieval walls, one of which was the Wall of Philip II Augustus; the Wall of Charles V, extending on the right bank of the River Seine
General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
Rudé's Paris and London in the 18th Century explains the popular protests and revolts of Paris and London during the 18th century. Rudé compares and contrasts the time, place, social, political and economic factors of Paris and London. He examines the pre-industrial stages and the turbulent events that occurred in both European capitals.
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
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.