From the Parisii to Paris-Plage
From the Gallic village of the Parisii to the metropolis of the 21st century, more than 2000 years of life and history have passed on the banks of the Seine. Follow the development, the transformation of a capital through the great dates of its history, go back to the origin of all the constructions, monuments, museums and urban works which have modelled the look of today’s Paris.
From one empire to another
1804: Napoleon is crowned emperor in Notre Dame. The First Empire (1804-1815) sees the creation of the cemeteries of Montparnasse, Montmartre and Père Lachaise. The construction of the Louvre continues, the first stone is laid of the Arch of Triumph and the Vendôme column is raised.
1821 - 1825: Completion of the canals of Ourcq, Saint Denis and Saint Martin. Gas lighting of public streets appears. Louis XVIII died in 1824.
1830: The July Revolution brings down Charles X.
1836: Under Louis-Philippe, the works on the Arch of Triumph are completed and the Obelisk, brought from Louxor at the time of the Napoleonic campaigns in Egypt, is erected in the middle of the Place de la Concorde.
1844: The Place de la Concorde is given the first electrical lighting.
1848: The Revolution concludes with the proclamation of the Third Republic.
1852 - 1870: The Second Empire transforms the capital. The prefect Haussmann modernises it with gigantic sanitation works: he cuts wide arteries ended with large buildings, develops the sewer sytem, has new train stations built as well as hospitals, and creates the great parks: the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Buttes-Chaumont, the Parc Montsouris. The Louvre is completed and Charles Garnier begins construction of the Opera. Paris is divided into twenty “arrondissements”.
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