-has 24.6 million people in its metro area, 9.7 million in city proper

-officially: Department of Paris

Name - Département de Paris (French)

Country - French Republic

Prefecture - Paris

Head of state and government - Prefect --------

Legislature - General Council

President of the General Council - --------

Judiciary - Tribunal of the Department of Paris, Court of Assizes of Paris

President of the Tribunal of the Department - --------

President of the Court of Assizes - --------

Form of government - Department of the French Republic

Demonym - Parisian

Area - 504.78 km^2

Largest city - Paris

Time zone - TMP+00:00

Language - French

Population - 9,715,000

Density - 19,246.01 /km^2

Anthem -

Motto - Fluctuat nec mergitur

-giant, sprawling city

-former Bastille area made into grand public square, Place de la Liberte

-at center, colossal and wide 7 meter granite rock, miniature model of Bastille at its top of it, and on top colossal 53 m stone Colonne de la Liberte, informally called Bastille Column

-at top of column, bronze Marianne with an olive branch

-miniature model of Bastille made of bricks of Bastille (from Pont des Neuves) as its base

-erected in 1889 during World Expo > 1889 Exposition de la Revolution (Paris) at Champ de Mars

-blown up during French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41)

-becomes national cause, rebuilt

-colossal bronze Marianne statue seated on throne

-in one hand, tablet with Declaration of Rights of Man

-and in other, rod with French flag

-colossal, replaced every once in a while

-Phrygian cap on head

-historic cathedral entirely torn down in 1842 due to total state of disrepair

-replaced with a Hiberno-Romanesque church

-in keeping with a wave of Celtomania

-mother church of the Gallican Independent Catholic Church (French Republic > Religion)

-where the Primate of France sits

-named after Joan of Arc

-who the church turns into not only a saint, but its chief saint, on basis that she fought for French Catholicism

-and was killed by the foreign Catholic Church establishment

-thus, is the quintessential icon of French Catholicism and symbol of its independence

-grand and opulent basilica

-because French government refuses it claims to existing cathedrals

-and therefore it has to make a beautiful show-stopping cathedral itself to give itself a sense of ancient history

-neoclassical as part of keeping with French national style

-located at Montmartre, where in OTL there is Sacre-Coeur

-which means it directly looks out to main part of Paris altogether

-constructed in 1928 in newly expanding city center of Nanterre to serve as flagship of company

-modernist avant-garde design

-height of 450 m, making it tallest building in the world

-bombed badly during Croatian War, reconstructed by 1946

-France's national museum

-combined with Tuileries

-Tuileries contains chamber for meeting of College of Conservators when it meets

-modern, pretty tall building

-influential in that it's made by unadorned concrete

-old palace basically destroyed in interior by reconstruction

-museum of French schools of painting

-formerly Palais Bourbon

-where Legislative Assembly meets

-where Council of State and ministers meet

-also keeps residence of Consuls

-formerly Palais-Royal

-where Tribunate meets

-with Paris getting bigger with more industry, sees rapid rise of tenements in 1820s

-urbanization in wake of War of the French Revolution (1792-1804)

-no Haussmann treatment, but people talk about it, medieval city cut with large roads rises, and new parts of city very much Haussmanized

-from before 1850, Paris quickly eating into suburbs at unprecedented pace

-cholera is major issue

-discovery of cholera caused by water in 1840s Paris

-rise of Railways > Pneumatic rail in 1850s, also Velocipede > Crank velos, allow for expansion into banlieues (akin to streetcar suburbs)

-rise of skyscrapers in Nanterre, other suburbs lacking catacombs and other stuff

-by 1870, the entire Department de la Seine fused with city of Paris to establish a greater city with some room to expand

-wars in 1880s, 1890s make Paris boom further with production

-along with railroad electrification allowing for even more suburbanization

-by 1920s, Paris starting to exceed department limits, still expanding further

-during Croatian War (1937-41), very primitive state of radar means Paris gets bombed by Germans a great deal, but less then Flanders-Roer industrial region

-postwar, Paris is somewhat sluggish compared to Flanders-Roer because less destroyed infrastructure to be rebuilt as modern

-but eventually, money pumped in to modernize, and new postwar migration of Eastern Europeans to France allows for labor boom

-oil crisis of 50s and 60s adversely effects Paris less than Flanders-Roer region because less auto manufacturing

-by modern day Paris is world's fifth largest city, sprawling and huge

-multiple downtowns probably, with its centers defined by old pneumatic railway stops

-more skyscrapers in old city, but still not that many

-but nonetheless less Haussmanization of old Paris means more openness to new concrete buildings and all

-and as diverse as you'd expect from such a huge city