The Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union) was signed in Maastricht, Netherlands on February 7, 1992, with France as one of the twelve signatory nations, represented by Foreign Minister Roland Dumas; France held a referendum on the treaty in September 1992.
Three Paris buildings that were already standing when the Auld Alliance treaty was sealed in Paris on 23 October 1295, and how to visit them in one day.
President John F. Kennedy, whose Irish ancestry from County Wexford is well-documented, made a historic state visit to Paris from May 31 to June 2, 1961, meeting with Charles de Gaulle at the Élysée Palace and Versailles.
Nicolas Fouquet was a Paris-born finance minister who built Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte 55km from Paris using three artists (Le Vau, Le Brun, Le Nôtre), whose 1661 party there led to his arrest and the creation of Versailles.
On 24 April 1558, fifteen-year-old Mary Queen of Scots married the Dauphin François at the doors of Notre-Dame. Where to stand today, from the cathedral square to the Conciergerie.
James Connolly, military commander of the 1916 Easter Rising, extensively studied and wrote about the Paris Commune of 1871 as a model for revolutionary organization, a well-documented historical connection verified in his collected writings and Irish revolutionary archives.
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is located approximately 55km southeast of Paris; its 1661 fête provoked Louis XIV to arrest Fouquet and hire the same design team (Le Vau, Le Brun, Le Nôtre) for Versailles and Parisian projects including the Tuileries Gardens redesign.
The Maastricht Treaty establishing the European Union was signed in Maastricht, Netherlands in February 1992, with France as a key signatory and architect, followed by a French referendum that narrowly approved it.
Irish revolutionaries including James Stephens (Fenian founder) and Maud Gonne lived in exile in Paris in the 19th/early 20th centuries, and the Irish tricolour was explicitly modelled on the French flag.
John F. Kennedy visited Paris in May 1961 for a summit with Charles de Gaulle, and Ronald Reagan attended the G7 summit at Versailles in June 1982—both were US presidents with documented Irish ancestry (Kennedy from County Wexford, Reagan from County Tipperary).
