Fact 1
Paris gained the nickname 'The City of Light' because of its ideas during the Age of Enlightenment, but became literal in the 1860's when Napoleon III had the streets illuminated with 56,000 gas lamps.
Fact 2
In pre-Roman and Roman Gaul, the town was originally called 'Lutetia' and considered the ancestor of present day Paris.
Fact 3
As of 2014, Paris was the third most visited city in the world. It was the only city to lose visitors since the last measurement in 2013.
was the Prefect of the Seine Department in France, who was chosen by the Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive program of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris, commonly called Haussmann's renovation of Paris
Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris
is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri
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is the third largest city in the United States by population, and the eighth most economically important city in the world.
The capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
A Serbian mathematician and inventor.
The capital and largest city of Argentina.
Was a Polish-French physicist and chemist.