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Also Known As Lutetia (Lutetia Parisiorum), the Roman-era name
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Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated city population of 2.04 million in an area of 105.4 square kilometers, and a metropolitan population of 13.2 million as of January 2026. Located on the river Seine in the centre of the Ile-de-France region, it is the largest metropolitan area and fourth most populous city in the European Union. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Population
2,047,602 1
As of January 2026, city proper.
Area (sq km)
105.4 1
Founding Year
250 BCE 1
Circa; the Parisii inhabited the area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC, ahead of the later Roman-era settlement of Lutetia.
Population Estimate Year
2026 1
Elevation (m)
78 1
The infobox's own plain elevation figure; the same field also shows the underlying 28-131 m range this average is drawn from.
Latitude
48.8567 degrees north 1
Longitude
2.3522 degrees east 1
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Paris is the capital of France.

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Saint-Saëns was born in Paris

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Born: Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

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Born: Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

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Born: Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

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Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; French: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017.

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Paris, France

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Paris, France

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After attending the Lycée Joffre and then the University of Montpellier, Comte was admitted to École Polytechnique in Paris.

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In 1631, five years after the death of his wife, Étienne Pascal moved with his children to Paris.

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He entered the Franciscan Order in 1243 and studied at the University of Paris, possibly under Alexander of Hales, and certainly under Alexander's successor, John of Rochelle.

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He studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris (graduating at the age of 16), and at the Paris Conservatoire.

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Paris, First French Empire

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He spent most of his career at Tours, although he assisted at the council of Paris in 577.

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Due to civil unrest shortly after his entry to the priory, Hugh's uncle, Reinhard of Blankenburg, who was the local bishop, advised him to transfer to the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris, where he himself had studied theology.

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Grotius then fled to Paris, where the authorities granted him an annual royal pension.

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From 1807 to 1809, Champollion studied in Paris, under Silvestre de Sacy, the first Frenchman to attempt to read the Rosetta stone, and with orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès, and with Raphaël de Monachis who was now in Paris.

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Campbell studied Old French, Provençal, and Sanskrit at the University of Paris and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

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Paris, Île-de-France, France

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The family moved to Paris when she was two years old.

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After his expulsion from the USSR on September 29, 1922, on the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in the Weimar Republic caused him and his wife to move to Paris in 1923.

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His family moved to Paris when he was four years old, and he received his education there.

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Paris, France

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Born at Pallet, near Nantes, he became a popular lecturer in Paris, but his academic career was cut short after his love affair with his student and eventual wife, Héloïse d'Argenteuil.

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Urged on by some of his friends and collaborators, Guénon agreed to establish a new Masonic Lodge in France founded upon his "Traditional ideals", purified of what he saw as the inauthentic accretions which so bedeviled other lodges he had encountered during his early years in Paris.

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Around age 20, he spent about a year in Paris in France, but he did not study canon or civil law at the time, and his Latin remained somewhat rudimentary.

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About a year after he arrived in Metz, Fortunatus travelled to the court of King Charibert, Sigibert's brother, in Paris, and stayed there until Charibert's death in 567 or 568.

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Headquartered in Paris, the Alliance had 850 centers in 137 countries on every inhabited continent in 2014.

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  • Lead section
    Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated city population of 2.04 million in an area of 105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi), and a metropolitan population of 13.2 million as of January 2026.
  • Infobox
    105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi)
  • History section
    The ancient oppidum that corresponds to the modern city of Paris was first mentioned in the mid-1st century BC by Julius Caesar as Lutetia Parisiorum
  • History section, Parisii settlement circa 250 BC
    The Parisii people inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC.
  • Infobox, Elevation
    28-131 m (92-430 ft) (avg. 78 m or 256 ft)
  • Infobox, coordinates
    48°51′24″N 2°21′08″E / 48.8567°N 2.3522°E
  • Infobox, Population
    Population (Jan 2026) 2,047,602
  • On Continent: Europe
  • Associated With: France
  • Capital Of: France, Lead section, capital fact
    Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated city population of 2.04 million in an area of 105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi), and a metropolitan population of 13.2 million as of January 2026.
  • In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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Wikidata Q90, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
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