Paris
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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The Paris catacombs were originally tunnels where they mined for limestone, going deep underground once extracting it at ground level began spoiling the topsoil.
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More facts about Paris
After the Revolution, the Merveilleuses of Paris sported ridiculous fashions: giant monocles, rings on all their toes, and huge hats with dog ears, and they pretended to have a lisp.
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In 1820s Paris a service called the Bain a domicile was so popular that a man would deliver a bath to your doorway and wheel it up the stairs to whichever room you chose.
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In 1662 Blaise Pascal set up a public transport system in Paris, but wealthy riders didn't like sharing with poorer people.
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From the 1880s until 1927, Paris had an underground clock system that ran on puffs of air, keeping all the city's clocks in sync.
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The world's oldest speaking clock was pioneered in 1933 by Ernest Esclangon, a French astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory.
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In that era in Paris, the one person who had a dirigible balloon used to float from house to house and sit outside your window saying hi.
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The Paris catacombs are dangerous if you're not an expert: there are stories of people who went off the beaten path hunting stashes of wine and got lost.
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Lavoisier had been really unpopular ever since he suggested building a wall around Paris.
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Everyone stayed at this Paris hotel: Picasso had his wedding meal there, and Salvador Dali stayed a month each year, once ordering a flock of sheep to his room so he could fire his pistol at them.
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