A Brief History of Paris

Paris: city of love, food and fashion.

Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas.

Paris: a modern metropolis.

Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time.

There is a unique fusion of past and present in this purposefully grand and well-planned city. The Triumphal Way, which runs straight from the Louvre through the Tuileries Gardens, across the Place de la Concorde - where the guillotine once stood - through the Arc de Triomphe towards the Arche de la Déf...