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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. With an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents as of 1 January 2023 in an area of more than 105 km2 (41 sq mi), Paris is the fifth-most populated city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its early and extensive system of street lighting, in the 19th century, it became known as the City of Light.The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants on January 1, 2023, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €765 billion (US$1.064 trillion, PPP) in 2021, the highest in the European Union. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, in 2022, Paris was the city with the ninth-highest cost of living in the world.Paris is a major railway, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Charles de Gaulle Airport (the third-busiest airport in Europe) and Orly Airport. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second-busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world and the busiest outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre received 7.8 million visitors in 2022, keeping its position as the most-visited art museum in the world. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art. The Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne, Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso are noted for their collections of modern and contemporary art. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991.Paris hosts several United Nations organizations including UNESCO, and other international organizations such as the OECD, the OECD Development Centre, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the International Energy Agency, the International Federation for Human Rights, along with European bodies such as the European Space Agency, the European Banking Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900 and 1924, and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Narratives set in Paris 200
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The Prague Cemetery
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The Map and the Territory
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The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
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Stone's Fall
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Long Lost
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Au bon roman
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Airman
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The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
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Ritournelle de la faim
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April in Paris
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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In the Cafe of Lost Youth
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Entre les murs
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The Bad Girl
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Dans les bois éternels
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Sous les vents de Neptune
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The Da Vinci Code
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The Devil Wears Prada
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The Book of Illusions
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Austerlitz
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Nodame Cantabile
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99 Francs
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Black Notice
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The Savage Detectives
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Glamorama
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The Parrot's Theorem
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Aux fruits de la passion
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Dora Bruder
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Dans ma chambre
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Des chrétiens et des maures
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Debout les morts
Works about Paris 38
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Notes and Opinions of Mr. Frederick-Graindorge
- Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments
- Jean qui grogne et Jean qui rit
- Paris
- Giovanni's Room
- Histoire du Tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris
- La Capitale des Gaules ou la Nouvelle Babylone
- Les ordres de Paris
- Trente jours de voyage en zigzag de Paris à Venise par huit écoliers en vacances
- Histoire de Paris
- Rapport d'activité Paris Musées 2019
- Luxembourg-Paris-Luxembourg 1871 : migrations au temps de la commune : Victor Hugo sympathisant des communards, lors de son séjour luxembourgeois en 1871? : texte, documents et bibliographie
- Musées de la Ville de Paris
- De Paris à Venise. Notes au crayon ; par M. Charles Blanc, ancien directeur des beaux-arts
- Lutèce : Paris, ville romaine
- Revoir Paris
- Livre du centenaire de la reconstruction de l'Hôtel de Ville 1882-1982
- Fêtes à l'Hôtel de ville de Paris, 1804-1870
- La nuit des constellations
- L'enfer
- L'assassinat de Paris
- Les Cahiers N°9 - Avril 2002
- Le passant visionnaire. Les Paris de Victor Hugo
- Paris pendant la Révolution (1789-1798) ou le nouveau Paris. Tome II
- De Paris à Baden. Voyage d’un étudiant et ses suites variées
- De Paris à Cologne. Guide de l’étranger en Belgique
- Revoir Paris
- Luxembourg - Paris - Luxembourg : migrations au temps de la Commune : études d'histoire économique et sociale accompagnant l'exposition
- Paris
- PARISIENNES CITOYENNES
- Paris pour les nuls
- Promenades d'un naturaliste aux environs de Paris, précédées d'une lettre à l'auteur par Albert Millaud et suivies d'un guide du naturaliste, de notes et de tableau sur la flore et faune parisienne
- Paris par arrondissement
- Articles de Paris - A Book of Essays
- Vie de Bohème - A Patch of Romantic Paris
- Paris Musées : histoire des musées de la Ville de Paris
- Paris romantique, 1815-1848
Editions published in Paris 21
- Excursions daguerriennes
- Le Monde à l'envers
- Histoire Céleste Française
- Livre:Sébillot - Littérature orale de l’Auvergne, 1898.djvu
- Le Premier tome de l'Architecture
- Der andere Joseph
- La tierra de Alvargonzález
- La Venue à l'écriture
- Voyage au Bresil, dans les annees 1815, 1816 et 1817, par s. a. s. Maximilien, prince de Wied-Neuwied
- الفتنة: جدلية الدين والسياسة في الإسلام المبكر
- Noughts and Crosses
- Notitia utriusque Vasconiæ, tum Ibericæ, tum Aquitanicæ
- Les Vases athéniens à figures noires
- Le Pays Basque, sa population, sa langue, ses moeurs, sa littérature et sa musique
- Mémoires de Garibaldi
- Les grands architectes français de la Renaissance
- Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae
- Baudelaire
- Les églises de Constantinople
- Les Bronzes du XIXe Siecle
- Hier
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