Paris

South-East; the point in question is in the English channel.

The distance between the above places is 4916 miles. This distance is point to point straight distance as seen on the map. The actual distance covered by a flight may vary according to the flight path chosen. Also this is not the airport to airport distance.

In total, there are thirty-seven. The oldest is about 430 years old while the newest was constructed in the mid 1990s. For between $12-$15 American, visitors to Paris can take a cruise along the river that will take them past between twenty and twenty-three of the bridges. By the way, for those Sex and the City fans looking the bridge used in filming the final episode, it's the Pont Des Arts, which connects The Louvre to the Institut De France.

Chemin de Fer Métropolitain de la Ville de Paris. But everybody calls it Le MÉTRO.

They get along quite well but there's a friendly rivalry between them, particularly when they are competing against each other in team sports.

The city of Paris is divided down the middle by a river known as The Seine. At the very center of Paris is an island in that river known as the Ile de la Cite. At the very center of that island stands the beautiful cathedral known as Notre Dame.

Notre Dame de Paris

The tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.

The architect, Gustave Eiffel, had a permit for the tower to stand for 20 years; it was to be dismantled in 1909, when the City of Paris would take over ownership. The City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower was that it could be easily demolished) but as the tower proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the expiry of the permit.

Paris began on the Ile de la Cité, the island at its centre. This is therefore called le berceau de Paris, the cradle of Paris

The Persian Gulf is located at 50 degrees east and 30 degrees north. It lays just to the southwest of Iran.

the date of the treaty of Paris is September 3, 1783.

24.9 million people visit Germany each year. :D

the underground (which sometimes travels over ground) is called le métro. There also is the RER (regional train) which travels mostly underground within Paris; and the regular suburban train simply called the train.

== == About 7 hours depending on the flight routing and airplane speed. You can get a more specific idea by going to one of the big travel sites like Expedia or Travelocity and entering a query for the flight you're interested in. You don't have to actually book; just cancel out of the session once you have the times. Of course you have to add a few hours to any time you come up with since you'll need to be at BWI 2 or more hours in advance, and CDG is a good half-hour or so train ride away from Paris itself.

Tokyo was once known as E(h)do.

because it is the romantic place in the world.compose of famous landmarks.

The Seine River flows directly in front of the tower under the Iéna Bridge which you can see from the tower. Behind the tower, you can see the Champ de Mars, a large park, with the École Militaire (a military school) at the other end. You can also see the rolling hills with its trees and buldings scattered over them.

Paris is farther north than Madrid or Berlin

The legal driving age in England is 14 for electrically assisted pedal cycles; 16 for mopeds, cars (when speaking of people receiving the mobility component of disability living allowance at the higher level), small agricultural tractors, and small mowing machines or any other small pedestrian controlled vehicle; 17 for motorbikes up to 125cc power, cars, large agricultural tractors and small road rollers; 18 for vans and lorries if you are a member of the young driver's scheme and 21 for large road-rollers and all other vehicles. A provisional or full licence only lasts until your 70th birthday. Once you are 70, you must apply to renew your licence. The licence will then normally be renewed for three years.

Paris, France is located on the banks of the world famous River Seine. Its banks are a World Heritage site.

You would travel in a Northwestern direction, and would go over the English Channel.

The Galic (and later also used by the Romans) name of Paris was Lutetia.

The River Seine runs through Paris, France.

LOUVRE is probably a shortened form of 'La Louverie', the wolf's lair.

It is not known whether this name was the king's boast of his subjects' complaint. Probably, knowing Parisians, the latter.

The first castle here was built in 1200. Its foundations can still be visited since the new entrance tunnels to the Louvre Museum include the basement levels of all the former buildings. François I (1515-1547) knocked it down and built a nice, new, L-shaped palace.

In 1563 Queen Catherine de Médicis pulled down an old tile-factory (Tuilerie) six streets away to the East and built a new palace called the Palais des Tuileries. About 1600, she noticed she was getting wet walking through the streets from her own palace to the King's, so she began the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau to join them together. This meant a new building larger than the other two put together, since it had to be a quarter of a mile long and two stories high to bridge over the streets in between.

Under Louis XIII and XIV - which means from 1610 to 1715 - The Cour Carrée, completing the square started by Francois I.s L-shape, multiplied the size of the original Louvre by four. At this point, Louis XIV decided the Louvre was far too small, and moved out to Versailles. The building became derelict and squatters moved in. At this stage, remember, the buildings of the Louvre were still in among the city streets. During the Revolution (1791) Louis XVI was forced to move back into the Tuileries, and then Napoleon I lived there. He added enormously to the original Art collection of François I. (It's easy to collect Art if you're a conquering Emperor, you just nick all the best stuff as you go along.) He had the Louvre restored to hold all this loot, and began a new gallery along his new main street, Rue de Rivoli.

The job was finished by Napoleon III, who still lived in the Tuileries and let the public into the Louvre to see the Art collection. He also added two extra bits, designed to conceal the fact that the two long galleries aren't parallel. The whole job was finished, and all the streets in the middle demolished, by 1865; just in time for the fall of the Empire in 1870. During the suppression of the Commune in 1871, some twit burned down the Tuileries Palace. Obviously a serendipitous twit, however, because in so doing he opened up one of the most spectacular urban views in the world, La Grande Perspective; three straight miles from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe.

In the middle of the open space between the arms of the Louvre is the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, commemorating Napoleon's Austrian campaigns, with an inscription explaining why he had to go off and take Vienna instead of invading England. Originally it had on its top the four bronze horses from St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, but when Napoleon was finally defeated, the Venetians took them back.

The Louvre continues to develop; the moat at the Eastern end dates from the 1960s, when it was dug to show off the proportions of the colonnade; and at the very heart of the building is the new glass pyramid designed by I.M.Pei to form the entrance to Le Grand Louvre. Until now, the Louvre has not been all one Museum; a third of it, for example, was the Ministry of Finance. The pyramid leads to a series of underground entrances to the whole building. When the thing's finished, there will be ten miles of galleries; not a Museum you can nip round in half an hour. There are actually six sections; Greek & Roman Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Oriental Antiquities; Sculpture; Paintings; and other works of Art and furniture. It also has the mona Lisa in it.

see also http://www.grenfell-banks.com/Pariguid.htm and my PowerPoint presentation on the History of Paris at http://www.grenfell-banks.com/books.htm