Follow a Dutch thread through Paris: the Montmartre apartment Vincent van Gogh shared with his brother Theo, Van Gogh at the Musée d’Orsay, Frits Lugt’s Fondation Custodia on rue de Lille and Dudok’s Collège néerlandais.
Auvergnats migrated to Paris in large numbers from the 18th-20th centuries and dominated the café and coal merchant (bougnat) trades, with Auvergnat surnames and regional culture becoming integral to Parisian working-class life.
Lucien Magne, Paris-based architect and professor at École des beaux-arts, conducted restoration work at Château de Saumur documented between 1909-1911, after the city purchased the property in 1905-1906.
From the open city of June 1940 to Leclerc’s men reaching the Hôtel de Ville in August 1944: how Paris lived through the Occupation, and where we go to see it today.
The Bayeux Tapestry was brought to Paris and displayed at the Musée Napoléon (Louvre) from December 6, 1803 to February 18, 1804 by Napoleon Bonaparte, and again displayed at the Louvre from November 10 to December 15, 1944 during WWII—both verifiable historical events.
In 1713, the year of the Treaty of Utrecht, Paris already had the Institut de France dome, the Observatoire and the gilded Dôme des Invalides. Here is where we find Louis XIV’s Paris today.
King Jean II of France and Charles d’Orléans were both held as prisoners at the Tower of London during the Hundred Years’ War—verifiable historical facts documented in both French and English archives.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s self-coronation as Emperor took place at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on December 2, 1804, a historically documented event central to his imperial legacy.
The University of St Andrews was founded in 1413 and deliberately modeled on the University of Paris, with founding scholars like Laurence of Lindores having studied in Paris.
The kings in Paris and the dukes of Normandy were rivals for generations. In Paris you can still see what that rivalry built: the medieval Louvre under the museum, Philippe Auguste’s wall in the Marais and the royal palace on the Île de la Cité.
