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the Brunswick Manifesto French Revolution to intimidate Paris , backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?
the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin Paris , Rome , and Istanbul ?
the English ambassador to Paris , Edward Stafford Spain before the Spanish Armada in 1588?
the Cabinet des Médailles Paris , and houses the largest gold coin of Antiquity , a 20-stater of Eucratides I (pictured )?
the Château de Bellevue château built near Paris in 1750 as an intimate meeting place for Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour , was named for its spectacular views over the Seine ?
the Château de Saint-Cloud Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 artillery fire during the siege of Paris ?
the Château de Madrid Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the mid-1500s, was known as the "Château de Faïence" due to its richly ornamented façades , covered in majolica and high relief , but was almost completely destroyed in the 1790s?
the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird L'Oiseau Blanc ), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York , is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation ?
the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis Paris , other than the Seine ?
meetings of the Committee of Public Safety , the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution , were convened at the Pavillon de Flore Paris ' Palais du Louvre ?
in 1944, the Lyon to Paris rail line was blown up 22 times by the Special Air Service during Operation Houndsworth
one of the outstanding Parisian Louis XV ébénistes BVRB
stadiums such as Sydney 's Telstra Stadium and Paris ' Stade de France use movable seating
the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris Lewis Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French capital ?
the 108.1-kilometre (67.2 mi) Canal de l'Ourcq (pictured) provides over half of the 380,000 cubic metres (500,000 cu yd) of water used daily by the city of Paris for cleaning public works?
the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye Paris was the home of King James II for 13 years after his exile from Great Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
the Daguin machine cancelling machine first used in post offices in Paris in 1884?
the mayors of six Parisian suburbs took part in founding the Socialist-Communist Union
the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros , the home of the French Open in Paris , was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
the last execution by firing squad in France took place in 1963 at Fort d'Ivry Ivry-sur-Seine , Paris ?
the names of French generals Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova Frédéric Henri Walther inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe (pictured) in Paris ?
the treasure of Tillia tepe Afghanistan , was re-discovered after it was thought to have been destroyed by the Taleban , and is now on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris ?
unlike many of the Bee Gees ' singles , which were recorded in Miami, Florida , "Stayin' Alive Paris ?
under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand Paris 's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
the famous Wallace fountains Paris were provided by English philanthropist Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor?
the Carte Orange public transportation system in Paris and the surrounding region ?
the Neo-Renaissance architectural style encompasses such dissimilar structures as the Opera Garnier and Hôtel de Ville in Paris , the National Theatre in Prague , the Reichstag in Berlin , Mentmore Towers near London , Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg , and the Public Library in Boston ?
the Museum of Cretan Ethnology Georges Henri Rivière , creator of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris ?
the 1534 Ottoman embassy to France janissaries who travelled to Châtellerault and Paris to meet King Francis I ?
the Parc de Belleville Paris and also contains the city's longest cascading water fountain?
the Printemps Boulevard Haussmann in Paris is home to a Jugendstil stained glass cupola ?
the Petit Pont Paris , France has been destroyed at least 13 times since its construction in the Roman era?
in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston Laura Ingalls Wilder 's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane , drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
in 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps Russia to deliver reports from the La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris ?
Verdi is said to have referred to the Salle Ventadour (pictured) as his favorite opera house in Paris ?
trash cans in France are known as poubelles because Eugène Poubelle Paris ?
Philippe Égalité 's Château du Raincy Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
Democrats Abroad London and Paris in 1965 , and has grown to be a large international organization?
Etta Palm d'Aelders salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat , François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution , might have been an agent for the Dutch government?
Guillaume Beneman Parisian ébénistes German extraction , including the royal cabinetmaker Jean Henri Riesener ?
Gavroche (pictured) , a character from the novel Les Misérables Victor Hugo , lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris ?
Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings Marie de' Medici 's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris ?
Paris -based Naye Prese Yiddish -language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java " (Parijs van Java ) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street French anarchist Theodule Meunier Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard ?
Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin Montmartre "?
Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid Paris ?
Paris has held six BIE -sanctioned world's expositions Paris currently has more than 360 working fountains Fontaine des Innocents (pictured) , in use since the 16th century?
Henri Blowitz Paris correspondent of the Times French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875 ?
Jesse Lee Kercheval Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris ?
a bridge has existed at the site of the Pont Notre-Dame (pictured) in Paris , France since antiquity?
General Valerian Madatov pictured ) was called the Russian Joachim Murat by Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch during the Russian occupation of Paris in 1814 ?
Shakespeare and Company English-language bookstore in left bank Paris , first published James Joyce’s Ulysses 1922 , but the book was subsequently banned in the United States , United Kingdom and the author's home country Ireland ?
at Cirque d'hiver Paris , the idea of stylish evening circus performances for fashionable audiences was invented by Louis Dejean?
before becoming King of the United Kingdom , Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais Paris and had himself built a special "love seat" there?
during its construction, Voltaire complained that the massive Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons (pictured) in Paris had only two faucets ?
before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
Rue de l'Abbaye Paris takes its name from an abbey where the Merovingian kings of France used to be interred ?
Operation Resurrection Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel fine artist in Paris before becoming a children's book illustrator (example pictured) ?
Ladurée macarons (pictured) per day, opened a tea house in its Parisian pastry shop in the 1930s, to cater for society ladies, who at that time were not admitted to cafés ?
Louis Cordier Muséum national d'histoire naturelle Paris from 1,500 specimens in 1819 to 200,000 specimens in 1861?
Louis Réard bikini , chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris ?
Moseley Wanderers Great Britain and Ireland at Rugby Union in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris , winning the Silver medal despite losing their only game?
Maria Yakunchikova (pictured) was a Russian painter who lived in Paris and was active primarily in western Europe ?
16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan Paris ?
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