Paris Guide

History  



The history of the Paris is about 2,500 year old. Around the 500 AD, Paris was the capital of the Frankish King Clovis I. When the Clovis I, died h Frankish kingdom was divided and the Paris becoms the capital of the smaller state. In 987 AD, Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, was elected as the King of France, founding the Capetian dynasty which would raise Paris to become France's capital.
During Wars of Religion in the France, Paris was in a hold of the Catholic party, culminating in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572). After the king Henry IV saved the city from the Catholic party, he again established the royal court in Paris in 1594. The French Second Empire and the Belle Époque brought Paris the greatest Industrial Revolution and development in its history. In the year 1840s, rail transport had been started in the Paris and an extraordinary flow of migrants attracted towards the city because of the new employment sectors in the new industries in the various parts of the city.

In 1832 and 1849 the Cholera very much affected the population of Paris — in the year 1832 contagion alone claimed 20,000 of the population of 650,000. In the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Paris suffered much and also the ensuing civil war Commune of Paris (1871) killed thousands of the people from Paris and in this war many of the paris's main adminstrative centers got burned by the opponent.

After all these events the city rapidly recovered. To host the most famous Universal trade fairs of the late nineteenth century. After that the worlds most famous Eiffel Tower was buil up he city as a symbol of french revolution in he year 1889. This tower remained the world's tallest building untill 1930 and even today it is known as the most famous monument of the world.

During the first world war the Paris was a the head of the war market. Paris face the economic and the financial crisis during the war in which many poliitions try to regain the political power. In the second world war France surrendered and in the year 1940 the German forces taken the charge in their hand. After that the city have to face many problems like bombarments for the four years. It was a really tough time for Paris as well as for the France.

Under the Napoleon's rule, Paris became the capital of an empire and a large military force. He reward himself Emperor in a ceremony held in Notre-Dame on 18 May 1804.
Like his grand precursors, he saw Paris as a new Rome and set about building public monuments appropriate the capital of an empire. Some of these were intentional copies of great Roman buildings, such as the Église de la Madeleine. Napoleon's military movement against the British, Austrians and Russians initially met with great success plan but hubris, brazenness and poor planning reason the obliteration of his army in 1813 in the depths of a Russian winter. Russian and Austrian armies foray France in 1814 and on 31 March 1814, Paris fell to the Russians—the first time in 400 years that the city had been defeat by a foreign power.