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Two thousand years of compressed history – featuring riots and revolutions, shantytowns, palaces, new street plans, sanitation and the Parisian people.


Pages in section ‘History’: Beginnings, The Right Bank, Civil wars and foreign occupation, Planning and expansion, The 1789 Revolution, Napoleon – and the barricades, Expansion, The Commune, The Belle Époque, The German Occupation, Postwar Paris, The Mitterrand era, Chirac's first presidency, Paris since 2000.

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