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la Défense isn't in Paris, it's in les Hauts de Seine (92)

Most international flights arrive at Roissy Charles-De-Gaulle (CDG). It is a very busy airport, and is a 30-50 minutes ride to Paris (depending on traffic) in the northern area, or slightly more than an hour using public transit (regional train RER, or Roissybus)

Orly (ORY) is smaller and closer (~ 25 minutes ride) south of Paris, and is mostly domestic (but I think Easyjet flies there too). There is no direct train to Paris, but the Orlybus will take you downtown in about 45 minutes. I tend to prefer Orly to Roissy because it is less crowded and closer, but it looks kind of old.

Ryanair will get you to Beauvais, which is much further away from Paris, and you will have to take a Ryanair bus (a taxi ride would probably cost you at least 100€). I wouldn't particularily recommend this airport, but you might find much cheaper tickets with Ryanair that will be worth it.

The price of airplane ticket depends on many different factors. It is best to talk to the airlines about your trip.

you look great on this picture...

The famous slogan in France is Liberte, egalite, Fraternite. In English, this means Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood. This slogan began popular at the end of the 17th century.

312 km.

A ziggurat.

Alexandre Boenickhausen, 1795-1879

A shallow tunnel - like the Paris metro - is dug, and then roofed over. A deep tunnel is bored.

No it is not, the tallest building is in Chicago and the tallest tower in the world is the CN tower inToronto, Canada.

309 meters

7 feet

It's not on the metro. RER line C to Versailles Rive Gauche is most convenient. The station is 800 metres from the palace. There are also SNCF trains from Gare Montparnasse to Versailles Rive Gauche, and from Gare Saint-Lazare to Versailles Rive Droite. There's even a train to Versailles Chantiers, but that's even further away. The 171 bus from metro Pont de Sèvres goes to the palace itself.

there are five RER lines in Paris (ABCDE) - They are operated by the public transportation service RATP - (interactive maps in link)

Underground lines are referred to as numbers or terminus stations which are signposted in other stations to direct the public. The station "la Défense" is on the line 1 ("La défense" to "Château de Vincennes").

There is also a connected RER station (RER is regional railway network, faster than the underground, but having fewer stations) on the same site.

a sea route to Asia

== == In 1893, two cousins, Theophile Bader and Alphonse Kahn, decided to open a novelty store at the corner of Lafayette and Chausee d"Antin in the shopping district near the Opera. The store expanded within 3 years and 1 rue Lafayette was purchased in its entirety and in 1905, 38, 40 and 42 Boulevard Haussman were purchased as well as 15 rue Chausee d'Antin. In 1906, Theophile Bader commissioned the Roman award-winning architect George Chedanne and later his student Ferdinand Chanut to design the new layout of the Haussman store. The block of buildings delimited by Haussmann boulevard, Chausee d'Antin, Mogador and Provence streets was redesigned according to Chanut's predilection for oriental bazaars, where the hodgepodge of merchandise and departments was intended to drive customers into a buying frenzy.

No. It's engineering design rather than architecture.

The game of rugby is highly favored in the southern area of France. Rugby was first introduced to France in the early 1870's.

It was the name of a royal estate created around Paris in the tenth century by the Capétien dynasty of the French Kings.

Yes. The oldest parts of the city were originally those on Ile de la cite, which is exclusively surrounded by the Seine River. However, the city quickly expanded to riverbanks.

mad-m-oo-a-zell d-uh pa-ri

mad like the word "mad" but with an more open "a" like in "my"

oo like in fool but as fast as you can

a like in "my"

zell like the game Zelda

uh like "a" in "a girl"

pa like pasta but don't pronounce this kind of "h" that English speaker say after a "p" or a "t"

ri like in creep (but with a short ee) en with a french "r"

Basically, on the island which is now Ile de la Cité.

Many towns start on hills because they are fortresses, the homes of warlike aristocrats round whom the common folk huddle for protection. But Paris was from the start commercial, a trading town whose ways were essentially opposed to the aristocratic principle. For traders, the site was ideal; a comparatively easy crossing-point on the great river that was the principal highway of the region, on an easily defensible island midway between the confluences of the Oise and the Marne.

To the North, a former branch of the Seine had left a marsh, with a sort of natural causeway across it about where the Boulevard de Sebastopol is now, leading to the hills of Montmartre, Ménilmontant and the Buttes Chaumont. To the South, more hills, now the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Buttes aux Cailles and Montparnasse. Two streams entered the Seine among the numerous little islands; the Bièvre in the South, and in the North the Grange Batelière, which still runs in a tunnel below the Opéra, factual home of the imaginary Phantom.

The Parisii arrived with the great Gaulish invasions of 300 BC, and soon built a flourishing town with two wooden bridges whose sites are now marked by the Pont Notre Dame and the Petit Pont. By the time the Romans came, Lutetia (the name means marshy was big enough to send an army of 8,000 men to help Vercingetorix against Julius Caesar. Unfortunately, Caesar simultaneously sent Labienus to capture Lutetia, which the absence of its warriors rendered comparatively painless. The inhabitants, however, burnt the place down rather than surrender it to the Romans.

That was in 52 BC. Over the next 300 years Lutetia developed into a city of some importance. Reserving the Island for administration and religion, the romanised Parisii spread onto the Left Bank to the South of the river. The Right Bank at this stage was mostly marsh.

For the rest of the history, see http://www.hgbservices.com/parihist.htm