Two of the oldest schools in Paris, Louis-le-Grand on rue Saint-Jacques and Henri-IV beside the Panthéon, show where the French lycée began, and what you can still see of them from the street.
Oktoberfest, Paris style: the Bavarian tent that came to the Paris Event Center at Porte de la Villette, the smaller beer evenings around town, and the Munich original.
Henri IV, the king of the Edict of Nantes, shaped the Paris we still walk: the Pont Neuf and his statue on it, the Place Dauphine on the Île de la Cité and the Place Royale, today’s Place des Vosges.
The Prix de Rome (1663-1968) sent French artists to study at the French Academy in Rome, housed in Villa Medici in Lazio since 1803—a verifiable historical program that created sustained cultural exchange between Paris and Rome.
Shakespeare’s works were initially rejected in France but gained acceptance in Paris during the Romantic period, particularly after the 1827 English theatre company performances at the Odéon Theatre, with François-Victor Hugo’s translations (1859-1866) proving crucial to French acceptance.
