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About Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated city population of 2.04 million in an area of 105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi), and a metropolitan population of 13.2 million as of January 2026. Located on the river Seine in the centre of the Île-de-France region, it is the largest metropolitan area and fourth-most populous city in the European Union (EU). Nicknamed the "City of Light", partly because of its role in the Age of Enlightenment, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy since the 17th century.
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Because it was at the World's Fair, there were lots of bright lights nearby and it was functionally useless as a telescope because it was in the middle of Paris.
from 139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy, 2016-11-12 at 00:09:43 · read transcript
Other times Paris came up
Goddy, annoying, meeting him in the afterlife, immediately going, yeah, in your face, I heard the telharmonium. You do know that got dismantled after two years, don't you, and no one ever heard of it ever again. What? There was an earlier thing called the Teatrophone in 1881, and that played, it was in Paris, and it was the theatre phone, and it transmitted music, but also some theatrical productions over the phone. Cool. No, hang on a second, if phones exist in 1880s.
No Such Thing As Spying With Ritz Crackers, 2022-08-25 · listen
Really weird pantomime i understand you don't have pantomimes here everybody doesn't make sense um there's another theory about where it came from where the word came from which is that it was invented just over a hundred years ago when the paris metro was being dug the paris underground because apparently um workers were carrying big loaves of bread to work and they needed to bring knives with them to cut it and they used to keep getting into constant knife battles and so.
295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, 2019-11-15 · listen
Because one person turned up to watch it yes there was one spectator and there were seven players yeah it was um it was an english guy who was living in niece and he came all the way over from niece to paris to watch the first matches he didn't even watch the final and the reason that the french won it and the french were the only people who took part is because there was a group of croquet players who lived in paris.
295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, 2019-11-15 · listen
Brothels he almost had a sort of like breakfast sex and then lunchtime sex and dinner sex there was almost a menu on a day-to-day basis with Victor Hugo to the point of that he was so popular amongst the brothels of Paris that when he died the brothels of Paris closed down for the day so that everyone working there could come to the funeral procession to pay tribute I read one account and I'm not sure this can be true um but the.
215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 · listen
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