-city's historic factories torn to ground due to French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), rebuilt modernly

-thanks to silicon factories city becomes France's tech center

-colossal pyramid constructed during peak of Egyptomania

-at what was then periphery of city

-for 2,000,000 people

-213 m tall

-as clean burial grounds in booming city

-with separate quarters per denomination

-every burial ground same price

-constructed as part of city asserting itself as a great French City

-as it has become second city of France

-during French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), in 1939 top attacked by German bomber

-it being sturdy and meant for the ages means only top damaged

-reconstructed postwar with a memorial to the war at the top

-associated with Charlemagne

-got badly damaged during French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) bombing campaign

-but got reconstructed postwar

-source

-in 1877 labor strike in area, strikers gathered there, got attacked by French military

-hallmark of the French labor movement

-to headquarter the International Forum

-originally constructed after French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5), completed in 1906

-got destroyed after French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41)

-entirely reconstructed postwar in same form albeit with some expansion for its main conference room

-gigantic neoclassical building, very tall and a [skyscraper]

-from a huge civic square, connects to a huge open-air entrance which enters to Forum Assembly Hall

-to store the main section of the International Library