July 19, 1900 remains a memorable date in Parisian history, forever etched in the minds of Parisians. On that day, […]
There once existed immense underground ice houses beneath Paris.What remains today? Long before the refrigerator, the capital stored its ice […]
You might think it’s an Halloween story… but it’s all true. For over a century, Parisians — and even tourists […]
From January 18 to March 8, the capital faced one of the worst floods in its history.The Seine rose to […]
The future Place de la Concorde was packed with people.The marriage of the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, to Marie-Antoinette […]
Following the terrible plague epidemics that devastated Paris in 1605 and 1606, King Henri IV decided to build a hospital […]
On the Île de la Cité, Rue de la Colombe takes its name from a touching love story between two […]