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99 unusual facts about Paris


1645 in poetry

July 13 — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris

1984 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1984 French Open was held from 26 May until 10 June 1984 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1988 French Open – Men's Doubles

The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1988 French Open was held from 23 May until 5 June 1988 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1989 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1989 French Open was held from 29 May until 11 June 1989 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

2000 Brazilian Grand Prix

On April 6, 2000, the World Motorsport Council handed out a $100,000 fine to the organisers, after being summoned to Paris due to a safety hoarding falling onto the main straight, narrowly missing Jean Alesi.

2003 Brazilian Grand Prix

Oral arguments and timing evidence were presented to an FIA court in Paris, which, on April 11, awarded victory to Fisichella.

A Place for My Head

It was brought back in 2008, and then again for one show in Paris on October 25, 2010, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hybrid Theory.

Ain El Fouara Fountain

Two years later in 1896, the mayor of Sétif, M. Aubry, during a trip in Paris, asked the director of “Les Beaux-Arts” to donate a statue that will be used for the decoration of the fountain.

Alexander Pagenstecher

He obtained his doctorate in 1849, and in 1851 traveled to Paris to study ophthalmology.

Algeciras Campaign

Troude had shown skill and bravery in the engagement, but his subsequent reputation was largely built on the strength of a report sent to Paris by Dumanoir le Pelley which was based on a letter written by Captain Troude.

Aller Retour New York

Aller Retour New York is a novel by American writer Henry Miller, published in 1935 by Obelisk Press in Paris, France.

Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil, Marqués de Santa Cruz de Marcenado

Between 1726 and 1730, Santa Cruz de Marcenado wrote seven volumes of Military Reflections, published in Turin and Paris.

Anarchism in China

In Europe, Paris was particularly popular because it was relatively cheap, the French government helped to subsidize the students, and because France was seen as the center of Western civilization.

Anarchist symbolism

More recently, Parisian students carried black (and red) flags during the massive General Strike of May 1968.

Arrondissement of Paris

It has 20 cantons: the 20 municipal arrondissements of Paris.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Under Sulzberger the Times began to publish editions in Paris and Los Angeles with remote-control typesetting machines.

Arthur Linton

From March until the Bordeaux–Paris race in May, Linton took part in a long distance race every week.

At the Forks of the Grand

At The Forks of the Grand is a detailed history of the town of Paris, Ontario, Canada.

Billy Gilmour

Gilmour married Merle Woods of Montreal and moved to Paris, France before returning to Canada in 1942 to reside in Mount Royal, Quebec, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

The winner receives A$25,000 and a three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Camille-Marie Stamaty

Stamaty's father died in 1818, which forced the family to move back to France, first to Dijon, later on to Paris.

Centre de liaison de l'enseignement et des médias d'information

Based in Paris, it is led by France Renucci, a lecturer at the Paris-Sorbonne University and its advisory council and development are chaired by Jean-Marie Smith, a former journalist from Le Monde.

Charles Lutaud

In an interview with L'Écho de Paris after his appointment, he announced that the Algiers police would be reorganized on the Parisian model.

Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun

In 1712, two years after Mohun's Whig party had been heavily defeated in an election, the Duke of Hamilton gained the post of special envoy to Paris.

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

Another group, namely the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, went even further by trying to equate the elevated structure as one with the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Chilukki

In March 2001 she was retired to serve as a broodmare at her owner's farm in Paris, Kentucky.

Christopher Nesham

He was at Vernon, in Normandy, in October 1789, when a furious mob fell upon a corn merchant, Planter by name, who had been charitable to the poor, but who, having sent flour to Paris, was accused of wishing to starve the town.

Coming, Eden Bower!

Years later, Eden is back in New York after having great success in Paris.

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex.

Costa neoRomantica

Her decks are named for well-known European cities: Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Verona, Paris, London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

David Schoenbrun

After the war he worked for CBS from 1947 to 1964, serving primarily as the network's bureau chief in Paris, where he met and interviewed the President Charles de Gaulle a number of times.

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques

This immense and exhaustive work is currently edited by Luc Courtois and Eddy Louchez of Louvain and published by Letouzey et Ané of Paris.

Domenico da Cortona

Domenico is also credited with designing the Église Saint-Eustache in Paris.

Drozdowo, Podlaskie Voivodeship

It was later awarded first prize at similar competitions in Philadelphia in 1876 and Paris in 1878.

Early Modern English Bible translations

They were taken in large part from the work of Stephanus (Robert Estienne of Paris), who had divided the Greek Testament into verses in 1551, during a journey which he was compelled to make between Paris and Lyon.

Édouard Batiste

In 1842, he became the organist at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs church in Paris, where he remained for 12 years, before becoming organist at Saint-Eustache Church.

Émile Masson Jr.

Masson was Belgian road race champion twice, and won important races such as La Flèche Wallonne, Paris–Roubaix and Bordeaux–Paris.

Emma Roberto Steiner

Others recognized her talents early, and even suggested to her father that he send her to Paris to study music, but her parents refused and did not encourage her to develop the talent.

Ferdinand Konščak

Alexander von Humboldt used the maps in his work Carte generale... de la Nouvelle Espagne, (Paris, 1804).

Francis Thomé

Francis Thomé (October 18, 1850, Port Louis, Mauritius - November 16, 1909, Paris), was a French pianist and composer.

Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls

The treaty was signed on 17 May 1994 in Paris, and is drawn up in both a French and Dutch original.

Frederick William von Hessenstein

Frederick William, Prince von Hessenstein (26 November 1735, Panker - 17 April 1808, Paris), was a Swedish soldier and statesman.

Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band

In September 2007, the band was invited to perform at the "Briezh Touch" festival and parade in Paris, France.

Gilles Marchildon

He later lived in Paris and Toronto before moving to Winnipeg, where he established his own communications and marketing firm, People and Ideas, and served on the boards of several community organizations for both the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Franco-Manitoban communities in Winnipeg, including the Reel Pride film festival and the Festival du Voyageur.

H.I.G. Capital

The firm was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco in the U.S., as well as affiliate offices in London, Madrid, Paris, and Hamburg in Europe.

Henri François Xavier Gresley

Henri François Xavier Gresley (9 February 1819, Wassy – 2 May 1890, Paris) was a French Minister of War.

Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford

Leonard died ca 1693, in Paris very likely, and Anne remarried in the Church of St Eustace, Paris, in 1693 with the knight Bertrand Chohan de Coetcandec, son of Francois and Xillone de Kermeno, originated from Brittany.

Hoàng Xuân Hãn

Hoàng Xuân Hãn (Đức Thọ, 1908 – Paris, 10 March 1996) was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist.

Horace Günzburg

Baron Horace Günzburg (Baron Goratsii Evzelevich Gintsburg, Барон Гораций Евзелевич Гинцбург, (Naftali-Gerts Evzelevich Gintsburg) February 8, 1833 Zvenigorodka, government (guberniya) of Kiev, Russia – March 2, 1909, St. Petersburg, buried in Paris) was a Russian philanthropist.

James Herring

James Herring (born in London, 12 January 1794; died in Paris, October 1867) was a United States portrait painter.

Jeon Soo-il

He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France.

Jim Kendrick

Kendrick also played for the 36th Division in the 1919 American Expeditionary Force championship game in Paris.

Johann Georg von Dillis

The next year, in Paris, he saw oil sketches by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, and with Ludwig, the crown prince visited the Musée Napoleon; he would later advise the prince on collecting and other matters artistic, remaining in this capacity for the rest of his life.

John Bower Lewis

He was born in Paris, France in 1817 and came to Canada with his family in 1820.

Joseph-Étienne Giraud

Joseph-Étienne Giraud (31 January 1808, Briançon - 28 May 1877, Paris) was a French doctor and entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera with an additional interest in Coleoptera.

Kaleidoscope

It proved to be a massive success with two hundred thousand kaleidoscopes sold in London and Paris in just three months.

Katinka Kendeffy

She married Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka in Paris, on 9 July 1856, when Andrássy lived in emigration after defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Lack of outside support during the Warsaw Uprising

This basic scenario of an uprising against the Germans launched a few days before the arrival of Allied forces played out successfully in a number of European capitals, notably Paris and Prague.

Maria Anna Thekla Mozart

After Mozart’s return from Paris, Marianne accepted an invitation (given in the letter just quoted) to visit Mozart and his family in Salzburg.

Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis

Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746, Marcei – 29 March 1825, Paris) was a French composer, pianist, and salonnière.

Michail Melas

He studied law in Paris and became involved with commerce at an early age, importing Russian wheat to London and Marseilles.

Mr. lab!

Mr lab! is a French rock group, founded in Paris in 2002, by a French musician Yves Labbe, in whose honor and named group.

Nicole Valéry Grossu

Nicole Valéry Grossu (born Nicoleta Valeria Bruteanu, July 4, 1919, Turnu Măgurele, Romania - December 14, 1996, Paris, France) was a Romanian Christian writer, journalist and anti-communist activist.

Nikolai Novosjolov

Nikolai Novosjolov (born 9 June 1980) is an Estonian fencer, a two-time world champion in men's épée, winning gold at the 2010 World Championships in Paris and the 2013 World Championships in Budapest.

Nomina Anatomica

The IANC’s revision of the BNA was approved in 1955 at the Sixth Congress, meeting in Paris.

Octroi

But such a drastic measure meant the stoppage of all municipal activities, and in 1798 Paris was allowed to re-establish its octroi.

Open city

Paris in 1940, from which the French Government fled after it became apparent that they could not defend it

Order of the Christian Charity

François Frédéric Steenackers, "Histoire des ordres de chevalerie et des distinctions honorifiques en France", Librairie Internationale, Paris, 1868, p.

Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

On 6 December 2009, PSUAD moved into its permanent campus on Al Reem Island.

Pariser Einzugsmarsch

On 31 March 1814, it was played in presence by Emperor Francis II, Tsar Alexander I, and King Friedrich Wilhelm III during the expedition of the allied troops in Paris at the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition.

Peggy Connelly

The Jazzberries played extensively in Paris and throughout Europe until they disbanded in 2000.

Pierre Brasdor

He took his degree in Paris as master of surgery in 1752, and was appointed regius professor of anatomy and director of the Academy of Surgery.

Pioneers, a Volunteer Network

After landing at Quebec City on 1 August 1870, the Bells boarded a train to Montreal and later to Paris, Ontario, to stay at the parsonage of the Reverend Thomas Philip Henderson, a Baptist minister and close family friend who likely went to school with Melville in Scotland.

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory

It is part of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, a French governmental, non-profit research and higher education establishment located in Paris.

Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

The academy was one of several Thomist foundations in places such as Bologna, Fribourg (Switzerland), Paris and Lowden.

Primum Entertainment Group

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009, Primum Entertainment Group acquired the license to produce Rio, Eu Te Amo the next film in the series of Cities of Love motion pictures following Paris, je t'aime and New York, I Love You.

Prost AP01

With these problems allied with the relocation of the team's factory nearer Paris, the year turned into an exercise in damage limitation.

Pyotr Chikhachyov

Getting home education in Tsarskoye Selo, under the direction of lyceum professors, Chikhachyov finished his education abroad, attending the lectures of famous geologists and mineralogists, and then worked in Paris.

Rafael Barrett

In Madrid, he lived rebel boy, going from casino to casino and from woman to woman, alternating with visits to important literary gatherings in Paris and Madrid.

Rochester, Victoria

There is a museum dedicated to Oppy in Moore street, and a statue of him winning the 24-hour Bol D'Or race in Paris in 1928.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow

In 1560, eight years after his nomination, he was forced to retire to France, where he acted as confidential agent of Mary, Queen of Scots, and later openly as ambassador for James VI, until his death in Paris, 25 April 1603.

Roman Tokarczyk

He spent research stays as a Fulbright fellow inter alia at the International Research and Exchange Board in New York, at the University of Notre Dame, Harvard, University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and under the NATO Foundation in Paris, Rome, Vienna, and Copenhagen.

Salvador Arango

In 1990 was invited by International Art Connection to represent Colombia in a major exhibition of visual arts International Des Createurs Laura La Chapelle de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Sam Ku West

Sam Ku West (1907–1930) was an American steel guitar player from Honolulu, Hawaii he died in Neuilly sur Seine near Paris, France.

Samothrace

It was discovered in pieces on the island in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, and is now—headless—in the Louvre in Paris.

Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

An electronic version on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the soundtrack of the 1982 film "Liquid Sky".

Sorbet

By the end of the 17th century, sorbet was served in the streets of Paris, and spread to England and the rest of Europe.

SS Paris

A number of steamships have carried the name Paris, after the French capital city.

The Adventure of the Second Stain

Four days after the murder, a newspaper report from Paris connects Madame Henri Fournaye to Lucas's death.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

Tout-Paris

Le Tout-Paris was associated with particular fashionable places in the city, such as the restaurant (Maxim's, the large urban forest the Bois de Boulogne, Deauville, and so on, defining trends, giving an artist or writer their blessing, making or unmaking the reputation of a politician.

Turbigo

The battle is commemorated in the name of rue de Turbigo, a Paris street.

Ukridge and the Home from Home

After a plot to imply the drainage in the house is faulty fails, Ukridge decides to claim the house is infected with Scarlet fever, but receiving a telegram from his aunt saying she will arrive in Paris the following week, and knowing a trip there always takes his aunt a few weeks, decides to delay shutting down his plan to grab a few more weeks rent.

Vijayanagara

In around 1500 Vijaynagar had 500,000 inhabitants, probably making it the second largest city in the world after Peking-Beijing and twice the size of Paris back then.

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

In 1962, Torun designed a stainless steel bangle-style wristwatch for an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman

He died in Paris in December 1744 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son, John.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Zamyatin settled with his wife in Paris, where he collaborated with French film director Jean Renoir.

Zbigniew Bieńkowski

Bieńkowski received a one year scholarship from the Sorbonne and moved to Paris in 1938.


Adrien-François Servais

He is one of the founders of the Modern Cellistic Schools of Paris and Madrid, which began with his friend Auguste Franchomme and his disciple Víctor Mirecki Larramat.

Ahmed Shawqi

After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.

Anatole Andrejew

Now retired, he divides his time between Paris and Honfleur in Normandy, where he paints Post-Impressionist art, mainly views of French cities and landscapes.

André Castaigne

During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.

André Sapir

He is Member of the King Baudouin Foundation’s Board of Trustees and Chairman of its Selection Committee for the King Baudouin International Development Prize; and of the International Scientific Advisory Councils of the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW), of Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) in Paris, and of Fundacion Ideas in Madrid.

Anton Zilzer

He was a pupil of Rauscher, Gregusz, and Székely at the national model school of design, and later studied at the Munich Academy under Raupp, Hackl, Seitz, and Herterich, completing his education at Berlin, Paris, and London.

Arvid Jacobson

Jacobson was arrested in October 1933, along with his wife, and he promptly confessed to his role as an agent and revealed the existence of another Soviet apparatus working in Paris which included Lydia Stahl and Robert Gordon Switz.

Asian French

The 13th arrondissement of Paris hosts Paris' Chinatown, a major community for the city's Asian population, as does the Belleville neighborhood.

Château de Vincennes

The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis.

Clement of Ireland

Though St. Clement is no longer claimed as founder of the University of Paris, the fact remains that this remarkable Scots-Irish scholar planted the seeds of learning at Paris.

Consulate of the Sea

The only known copy of this edition (as of 1911) is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Delphine LaLaurie

LaLaurie's house was subsequently sacked by an outraged mob of New Orleans citizens, and it is thought that she fled to Paris, where she is believed to have died.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Edmund Knowles Muspratt

Muspratt and Holbrook Gaskell went together to Paris to negotiate terms for the manufacturers.

Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff

The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach studied physics and mathematics in Basel (with Rudolf Merian), Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Heinrich Gustav Magnus), Geneva, Paris (with Jules Célestin Jamin) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1855 in Basel.

Elias Gaucher

Elias Gaucher was a prolific printer and publisher of clandestine erotica who worked out of the Malakoff and Vanves communes in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, about 3 miles from the centre of the City.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Everglades Club

Singer's father, Isaac Singer (1811-1875), had invented the sewing machine and Paris Singer had an income of one million dollars a year at this time.

Florence Mills

Mills became well-known as a result of her role in the successful Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (barely on Broadway), one of the events credited with beginning the Harlem Renaissance, as well acclaimed reviews in London, Paris, Ostend, Liverpool, and other European venues.

Gare de Pierrelaye

Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Hippolyte Louis Gory

Hippolyte Louis Gory was born in Paris, 5th arrondissement the 27 (or the 28) September 1800 (the exact date is 5 vendémiaire an IX in the republican calendar).

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

Jacques-Philippe Lallemant

Lallemant is also the author of “Le Sens propre et littéral des Psaumes de David” (Paris. 1709) and of “L’Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction nouvelle” (Paris, 1740), of which there have been countless editions and translations.

Jean Crespin

In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend François Baudouin under the leading jurist and advocate Charles Du Moulin, and became himself advocate at the Parlement of Paris.

Jean-Jacques Ampère

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France.

Leonaert Bramer

In 1614, at the age of 18, he left on a long trip eventually reaching Rome in 1616, via Atrecht, Amiens, Paris, Aix (February 1616), Marseille, Genoa, and Livorno.

Loomis Dean

In 1956, while sailing to Paris to take a job in the magazine's bureau there, Dean photographed the sinking and the rescue of passengers from the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria.

Louis Ritman

He took a drawing class at Hull House, then attended the Art Institute’s school, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1909 moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the advice of Parker to continue his studies.

Marcel Gromaire

Marcel Gromaire, whose father was an educator in Paris, was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France.

Marcelo Grassmann

His works figure, among others, in the collections of the MoMA in New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas and the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo.

María Luisa Reid

Her work has appeared in collective exhibitions in France, Spain, Japan and Cuba with the most important of these being 300 Latino-americans dans l’espace in Paris, the IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mujeres en el Arte in Alcalá de Henares, Spain and the Viva la vida Frida in Havana.

Marie Dominique Bouix

Monsignor Fornari, the papal nuncio at Paris, desiring to further the restoration of provincial councils, held a conference with Bouix and the Bollandist Van Hecke, at which it was decided that the best means of influencing public opinion aright would be the preparation of a book explaining the law of the Church on provincial councils.

Mary Borden

Journey Down a Blind Alley, published on her return to Paris in 1946, records the history of the unit and her disillusion with the French failure to put up an effective resistance to the German invasion and occupation.

Mina Minovici

In 1885 he started his forensic training in Paris with Professor Paul Brouardel and soon after he became his assistant.

Morris Engines

The Hotchkiss company of France, who were makers of the famous machine gun, hurriedly transferred production to England during World War I when it looked as if their St. Denis factory near Paris was going to be overrun by the Germans.

Norman's Awesome Experience

The Parisian locale of the film is about to be annexed by the Roman Empire at the time the protagonists arrive (during the reign of the Emperor Nero).

Overseas Vietnamese

Most Vietnamese in France live in Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France area, but a sizeable number also reside in the major urban centers in the south-east of the country, primarily Marseille and Lyon.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Pierre Sancan

Pierre Sancan (October 24, 1916 in Mazamet – October 20, 2008 in Paris) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor.

Robert Demachy

He was buried two days later in the family tomb at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Sibour

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, (1792–1857) Catholic Archbishop of Paris, assassinated by a priest

Talbot Tagora

Fewer than 20,000 Tagora models were ever built, all of them at the former Simca factory in Poissy, near Paris, France.

The Gay Parisienne

The piece toured internationally, playing in New York as The Girl from Paris, opening on 8 December 1896, at the Herald Square Theatre and running for 266 or 281 performances (sources differ) and then touring.

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

Vanora Bennett

She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at Le Centre d'Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin, a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.

Vedat Dalokay

Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.