Paris , City, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...transportation centers of western Europe. The Paris metro (subway...the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, the Place...departments of the Ile-de-France administrative region...the state. Immigrants to France now constitute nearly 20...Paris, became king of France. The Capetians firmly...stormed the Bastille (July, 1789) and hauled the royal...turbulent period of the Revolution the city played a central...by enemy armies (1814, 1815). In the first half of...1861, 1,696,000. The revolutions of July, 1830, and Feb...