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A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy.
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From childhood dreams of joining the British Royal Navy to a dotage spent riding on a seesaw to improve his health, the true story of ...
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the ...
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city ...
In early October 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte led the governing Directory's army against the rioting royalists in Paris (who were rebelling to restore the monarchy ...
The Norman story began in 911, when a frightened French king (Charles III 'the Simple') gave land on the Channel coast to the Viking leader ...