THE SEINE RIVER,Paris

The Seine River. 

The Seine through Paris separating the city into two parts. the right bank and left bank. The Seine 776 Km long and runs in the inning after crossing the city of Le Havre. 

In Paris the Seine flows through September 20 bridges and three footbridges. Pont Alexandre III is the most beautiful of its sculptures and gilded with fine gold. Pont Neuf is the oldest bridge in Paris. Charles De Gaulle bridge is the last built. 

Celebrity says (riverboats) make trips during the summer months for tourists. The start of the bridge of Jena near the Eiffel Tower is every thirty minutes, and the show is superb. 

Winter during floods the banks, these stars are transporting users to go to their work in order to decongest the capital. 

The Eiffel Tower. 

Metal tower built between 1887 and 1889 in the Champ de Mars by Gustave Eiffel. It has the shape of a quadrangular pyramid with curved faces, the height of which is divided into three stages. The last floor has the campanile. the summit was arranged for radio equipment and television. Its height is 320 meters. Its weight is 9000 tons. It is repainted every 7 years. Our Iron Lady just turned 100 years old. It is the most visited monument in Paris 

The Arc de Triomphe. 

We find the top of the Champs Elysées empty of traffic. It is July 14, the day of our national holiday, and all our corps will be scrolling. The flag flew over the grave of our unknown soldier whose tomb is in the monument the Arc de Triomphe. 

The Champs-Elysees Avenue. 

A beautiful avenue that brings together all the most exclusive boutiques and coffee restaurant Fouquets the appointment of international stars. 

Top of the Arc de Triomphe Avenue, and down the Place de la Concorde. 

A view of the Champs-Elysees. 

The Champs-Elysees decorated for the holiday season. 

The trees along the avenue dressed thousands of twinkling bulbs for nearly a month. This is truly the most beautiful avenue in the world. 

Quai Saint Michel. 

Kiosks on the sidewalks are visited by collectors of old postcards of Paris. It is within walking distance of Notre Dame de Paris. 

Notre Dame De Paris. 

The Cathedral of Paris is located on the Ile de la Cité. In 1163, the bishop of Paris, Maurice Sully decided to build a church. It was completed in 1267 This is one of the first great Gothic cathedrals vaulted sexpartite. 

Following its restoration, only two roses of the transept and the west facade has retained some of their old windows. 

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart. 

It was built from 1876 to 1910 in terms of Paul Abadie in a Romanesque-Byzantine style. Its bell tower was erected in 1910 by Lucien Magne. 

It is located on the Butte Montmartre (neighborhoods of artists in the 

18th arrondissement) for its forecourt clear day we can see all of Paris. This is a beautiful basilica 

Alexandre III bridge. 

Alexandre III bridge connects the Esplanade des Invalides to the Avenue Winston Churchill, which opens in the middle of the field-Elysees. It is a beautiful bridge with sculptures and gilded with fine gold. The lighting at night still pay more majestic with the reflections on the water. 

The Opera Theatre. 

The theater was designed by architect Garnier and it was inaugurated in 1875. 

Testimony of Second Empire architecture, the Opera House is richly decorated with paintings (room ceiling by Chagall) and sculptures (Group Copy dance, Carpeaux). His public foyer was decorated by Paul Baudry. Opera houses a large library and a 

museum. 

The Louvre. 

The Louvre Palace was built in 1190 during the reign of Philip Augustus. Became a royal residence, he remained until 1678 when Louis fourteen decided to make Versailles the new royal residence. Louis Quinze had it restored the Louvre, but the lack of means stop. 

Under Napoleon the Louvre was completed. 

In 1791 the Louvre became a museum. one of the richest in the world, it originated from the collections of the crown. The glass pyramid built in 1989 illuminates new underground museum premises which is still growing in 1993. 

Place Charles de Gaulle (1970) 

Once instead of the star. 

Parisian crossroads formed by the union of twelve avenues around the Arc de Triomphe (1806-1836), surrounded by flags of Jacques Hittorff (end of the Second Empire). In these twelve avenues, is the Avenue Foch, the widest avenue in the world leading to the Bois de Boulogne. And the Champs Elysee most beautiful avenue in the world down to the Place de la Concorde. 

Place Charles de Gaulle is the meeting place for military parades 

Paris 

Capital of France, and capital of the Ile de France region. Paris is a department of the Seine, divided into twenty districts. The inhabitants are called Parisians but for the province, they are still (the Parisians). 

Paris has 2,152,423 inhabitants, with the suburbs that made more than $ 9 million. The city covers 105 km square, but with about 2000 agglomeration. 

The current functions of Paris are many. Political and intellectual capital of France, Paris is the seat of government and large government military defense command Ile de France, an archbishop, many academic and cultural institutions. 

Main river port, Paris is still the largest commercial and industrial financial center, of France, thanks to the abundance of labor, the importance of the consumer market and concentration of capital. Industries are located mostly in the suburbs; the city itself, which was depopulated is increasingly a service center. The growth of the town, near which group one sixth of the country's population has resumed. 

Problems (transport and housing in particular) related to this demographic and economic concentration profound. 

The history of Paris 

(52 BC) :( Lutèce former name of Paris) 

Lutèce main agglomeration Parisis conquered by the Romans into history. 

The Romans in the transfer center on the slopes of Mount Sainte Genevieve. The third century, when the Germanic invasions, the city folds in the Ile de la Cité and took the name of Paris. 

In (360) there Julien proclaimed Augustus. 

In (451) with Sainte Geneviève Paris resists Huns. (6th century) francs take up residence. In (857) Paris was burned by the Norman .In (886) Count Eudes, ancestor of the Capetian, resists them. In (987) the advent of the Capetian promotes the growth of the city. (XI century) This is fortified. The (water merchants) arrogate to themselves the monopoly of the river trade. (XII) century. The large trade is a great extension. This is the time of the construction of the first halls and Notre Dame de Paris. 

Philip II Augustus was the King of France from (1180-1223). We are indebted to Philippe Auguste important measures of administrative, judicial and financial orders. He encouraged trade and urban development. The provost became the first mayor of Paris proper. in 

(1215) University of Paris is created. (1257) is based Sorbonne. (1356-1358) Etienne Marcel became head of a communal revolt against the dolphin. The (24 August 1572) Protestants were massacred during the St. Bartholomew. 

In (1588), Henry III fled. In (1594) Henri IV returned to Paris. By the Treaty of Vervins he restored peace abroad and by the Edict of Nantes within the popular religious peace. (1598), he then undertook the work of restoration of royal authority and reorganization of France. With Sully finances were healed; Agriculture was encouraged by Olivier De Serres and renovated by the action of Laffemas industry. Champlain provides the foundation of New France by founding Quebec in 1608 he was preparing a war against the Empire and Spain when he was assassinated (1610) by Ravaillac. He left a minor son,: Louis XIII. 

In (1682) Louis XIV said the Sun King moved to Versailles. Paris now at 600,000 inhabitants. 

The king died in 1715. 

On 14 July 1789 the Bastille by the people mark the end of royal arbitrariness. King Louis XVI reinstated Paris. January 21, 1793 it is run. 

On 1 January 1860 the boroughs spend twelve to twenty. 

From (1853-1870) Haussmann prefect of the Seine gives the city its great prospects. 

From (19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871), the German besieged Paris. On 28 May 1871 the failure of the municipality of Paris transforms municipal status of the capital, depriving it of its mayor. 

(1940-1944) the Germans occupied Paris. 

December 31, 1975, Paris became a local authority, both common and department. 

In (1977), mayor of Paris was elected (Jacques Chirac). 

In (1982) (city of Paris has to borough councils each headed by a mayor. 

In (1989) The Eiffel Tower turns 100. 

There are 14 subway lines serving Paris, each identified by a number. Five RER identified by the letters A, B, C, D and E through the city and its suburbs. 

The Metro was designed and built in 1896 by Fulgence Bienvenue, who also designed the plans and construction of the Gare Montparnasse. 

Fulgence Bienvenue died in 1936 The first Metro line today to 106 years. 

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Areas of Paris 

My knowledge about Paris 

The Paris conquered by the Romans in 52 BC. J-C. was a village inhabited by the Parisii tribe away on the Ile de la Cité. The Roman colony which stood on its ruins was successful: it soon overflowed on the left bank of the Seine. The Franks succeeded the Romans gave the city the name it has today and made ​​it the center of their kingdom. 

In the Middle Ages, faith Parisians inspired them masterpieces of religious architecture: we should mention the Sainte Chapelle and Notre Dame, while the University of Sorbonne, built in the thirteenth century, attracted by its reputation and students scholars came from all over Europe. 

During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Paris emerged as the capital of culture and ideas. During the reign of Louis XIV, the city gained further wealth and power. 

If the people overthrew the monarchy in 1789, the revolutionary enthusiasm was short-lived. In 1804 General Napoleon Bonaparte, nurturing the ambition to make Paris the center of the world, proclaimed himself emperor and set out to conquer Europe. 

Shortly after the 1848 revolution, the great work of Baron Haussmann radically transformed the city. Wide boulevards replaced the medieval streets. At the end of the century Paris had become the showcase of Western culture. It retained this role until the German occupation of 1940-1944. The city has expanded considerably since the war, it is now ready to take its place at the heart of a united Europe. 

Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements, with fourteen neighborhoods with the best sites. 

First MONTMARTRE with his place du Tertre, the basilica of Sacre Coeur, its hill, the red mill and its vineyards. Secondly the CHAMPS-ELYSEES with his finest avenues, the Arc de Triomphe, Place Concorde, the Madeleine Church. CHAILLOT neighborhood with its most opulent buildings, its esplanade du Trocadéro and the Palais de Chaillot. The district INVALID with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs de Mars, the disabled, military school, the Alexander III bridge, the bridge with his alma Zouave and the departure of stars Paris Eiffel Tower. The Montparnasse district, with its tower and cemetery. The area of Luxembourg with its garden, the Senate, its holy site Sulpice. The neighborhood PLANTS GARDEN with its zoo. LATIN quarter with the Sorbonne, the Pantheon Fountain St. Michael. The district SAINT GERMAIN DES PRES, meeting young people and artists. The Opera district with the Opera Garnier, the Olympia Street peace. TUILERIES district, with arcades of the Rue de Rivoli, the garden, the museum, the glass pyramid of the Louvre and the Tuileries Royal Palace. Neighborhood BEAUBOURG with the Pompidou center, the City Hall. The neighborhood of the Marais with its PLACE des Vosges, Bastille, Saint Paul's Church. The district ISLANDS (SAINT LOUIS AND THE CITY). We find Notre Dame de Paris, the hospital of God hotel, the courthouse, the concierge, the prefecture and the largest flower market. 

Paris: a modern city. 

André Malraux launched a program to restore dilapidated neighborhoods like the Marais in 1962. This policy of respect for the heritage continued with the great works of François Mitterrand that open to the future. 

Indeed, if such achievements as the great Louvre where the Musée d'Orsay facilitate access to the treasures of the past, this program also includes futuristic buildings like the Opera Bastille, Science City, the National Library of Tolbiac, the great Arche de la Défense and the Stade de France where Paris turns to the twenty-first century. 

The city of Paris has six major train stations. Station LYON serving Italy and the south east of France with TGV, the fastest trains in the world (320 km per hour). Austerlitz station who joins Spain and south west. The station is making Switzerland, Germany and eastern France. North Station, which joined England through the tunnel, Belgium, and Holland. Saint Lazare train station who joins the suburbs and Normandy. Montparnasse station serving Brittany and Normandy