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

-officially: Department of Paris

-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

-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

-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 French Wars > First French War (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