Paris

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Transport

Subway

• Paris Metro (Metro de Paris)

2025: Closure plan for cars of another 500 streets of the city

In March 2025, Paris voters approved a referendum to close another 500 city streets to cars to make way for pedestrians, cyclists and green spaces, as well as eliminate 10% of existing parking spaces.

The plan aims to make five to eight streets in each district pedestrian, with a budget of €500,000 per street, and continue to change the look and character of the city.

The plan has raised concerns among some traders and locals who believe it will make daily life more difficult.

2023

The ubiquity of bedbugs on trains, subways and airports

The widespread detection of bedbugs in France by October 2023 is causing fear among travellers and becoming a sore spot for the government as Paris prepares to host next year's Olympics.

Users social networks post personnel showing insects crawling on high-speed trains and the Paris Metro, and there are plenty of bedbug articles online in cinemas and even Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Banning electric scooters

In early April 2023, it became known that the rental of electric scooters would be banned in Paris. This is explained by the desire of local authorities to improve safety on the streets and roads of the French capital. Read more here.

Video surveillance

2022:4 cameras per 1,000 residents

Data for 2022

Real estate

2021: Average monthly rent for a one-room apartment in central Paris - $1,422

Средняя стоимость месячной аренды однокомнатной квартиры в центре столиц countries Europe, October 2021

Religion

Temples

• Notre Dame de Paris

Culture and art

Museums

• Louvre Museum

Cinema

1895: First Public Film Show

The first public film show of Auguste and Louis Lumiere in 1895 at the Grand Cafe in Paris on Boulevard Capuchinoc (yes, it is Capuchinoc)

Tourism

2022: Paris leads cities in tourism revenue

On January 18, 2023, the World Tourism and Travel Council (WTTC) published the results of a study according to which Paris in 2022 ranked first in the world in terms of tourism's contribution to the country's economy. It's more like this here.

Ecology

2018: Tree cover - 20%

Data for 2018

History

2023: BlackRock office seized by protesters. Video

The office of the world's largest investment fund BlackRock in April 2023 was seized by protesters in Paris.

2022: King Mohamed VI of Morocco filmed drunk on video

In August 2022, a video appeared in the media in which the Moroccan king Mohammed VI is completely drunk, in Paris in the company of his friends, the Azaytar brothers and under the protection of his bodyguards.

1971

Philippe Petit's "Walk" Between the Spires of Notre Dame, Paris, 1971.

1969

Salvador Dali walks with an anteater through the streets of Paris. 1969.

1968

A street in the Latin Quarter after overnight clashes between students and police. Paris, France, May 1968.

1966

In one of the Paris cafes. France, 1966.

1963

An original approach in one of the Paris nightclubs: visitors themselves choose to which music they want to dance and it is she who sounds in their headphones. Paris, 1963

1960: Final of the European Football Championship with the participation of the USSR national team

Goalkeeper of the USSR national team Lev Yashin. The photo was taken in the tunnel of the Parc des Princes stadium before the start of the final match of the European Championship. Paris, 1960

1958

People waiting for a bus, Paris, 1958. Photo by Eduard Boob.

1953

Two dogs perform acrobatic stunts, Paris, 1953.

Paris bread, 1950s.

1950

Garbage truck. 1950 Paris.

1949

1946: First Bikini Show

The first official bikini show. Paris. France. 03.06.1946.

1940: German occupation

Adolf Hitler gives honors at Napoleon's grave, Paris, 1940.

Eiffel Tower during the German occupation. The caption: "Germany wins on all fronts."

Gliding on Ice Bars, Paris, Place de la Concorde, 1940.

1937: World's Fair

Pavilion of the USSR at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937

Pavilion of Germany at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937

1933

Lamppost in Paris, 1933.

1932

Workers paint the Eiffel Tower, 1932.

Men dressed in Mickey Mouse costume. Bet

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Women at the competition "The most elegant style of smoking" in Paris. 1932.

A lesbian couple in Le Monocle, Paris. 1932.

1929

Newspaper salesman, Paris, 1929.

1923

1914

Dr. Maxime Menard conducts a chest fluoroscopy in the radiology department of the Hospital Cochin in Paris, 1914.

1912

Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt began developing a suit that allowed the aviator to escape in the event of leaving the plane in July 1910. Several early experiments with mannequins seemed successful, but the successful result was unstable. Reichelt believed that the small height of his balcony on the fifth floor was to blame. In 1912, after repeated petitions, he finally managed to get permission from the authorities to experiment on the Eiffel Tower.

February 4, 1912 he appeared for the experiment. Those present were shocked to learn that he was not going to use the dummy, but would jump himself. It was not possible to dissuade Reichelt; he went out on the parapet and jumped. The parachute did not open, the inventor died.

The latest photo of tailor Franz Reichelt before the deadly jump from the Eiffel Tower in Paris wearing a parachute cloak.

It is sad that although parachutes did not yet exist at the beginning of Reichelt's work, at the time of the fatal experiment, Russian Gleb Kotelnikov had already invented a parachute-pack, and successful jumps had already been made in the United States with the help of dome parachutes.

1910

Disposal of urban garbage in the river Seine, 1910, Paris.

One of the first limousines, Paris, 1910.

Flood

Pedestrian bridges during floods in Paris, 1910

Paris Metro station during a flood, 1910

Flooding in Paris washed away the library. France. 1910

1908

Cigarette butt collector, Paris, 1900s.

1900: World's Fair

World Exhibition in Paris, 1900.

1898

Attractions at the Fair of Paris, 1898

Sweepers on the streets of Paris, late 19th century

1895

Train wreck at Montparnasse station in Paris, 1895.

Montparnasse station crash, 1895.

1890

Montmartre. Paris. 1890

Paris, 1890

1889: Completion of the Eiffel Tower

Paris, 1889

Engineer Alexander Gustav Eiffel poses on the completed Eiffel Tower in 1889

1887: Construction of the Eiffel Tower begins

Construction of the Eiffel Tower. Paris. France. 1880s.

The Eiffel Tower was built for two years, two months and five days - this was a record for that time and this kind of building. It was officially opened on March 31, 1889.

Groundbreaking of the Eiffel Tower, 1887.

1884

Statue of Liberty in Paris before being shipped to the United States. 1884.

1880

Workshop in Paris. Making the Statue of Liberty. 1880

1878

Balloon in central Paris, 1878.

1875

Construction of the Statue of Liberty hand in the studio. 1875 Paris. France.

Public toilet in Paris, France, 1875

1868: The first ever cycling race

The first ever cycling race was held on May 31, 1868 in the Parc Saint-Cloud, Paris, at a distance of 1200 meters.

1686: Le Procope Cafe opens

Paris's oldest cafe for 2022, Le Procope. It has been operating since 1686. At various times, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Napoleon I Bonaparte came here for a cup of coffee.