Paris
History's Greatest Cities
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The Early History of Paris
For the first 400 years of its existence it's just a not terribly fabulously great provincial city within greater Gaul. The Romans arrived under Julius Caesar and that was around 52 BC is that right? That's right. Basically it becomes a city in the Roman Empire. After year one thousand Paris has this sudden appearance on the stage and it sort of takes off like a rocket. Takes offlike a rocket in the twelfth and thirteenth century and it's very soon the biggest city in the western, you know, it's a world,. On world scale as well, it's pretty large. But as well as size, it's always had this grandeur. It's always been a
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