When was paris built

In , the Capetian dynasty came to power until During the eleventh century, Paris gradually became more prosper thanks to its trade in silver and because it was a strategic route for pilgrims and traders. At the beginning of the twelfth century , the first university in France was founded thanks to the uprisings of students and professors. Louis IX appointed the chaplain, Robert de Sorbon, to establish the College, which was later named after him, the Sorbonne. The second was a tax riot known as the Maillot uprising in , and the third was the Cabochien revolt in Additionally, the capital of France, which was the most populated city in Europe in , was struck by the Bubonic plague, killing thousands of Parisians.

The city kept on growing during the following centuries, although monarchs preferred to live in the Loire Valley. On 24 August, , the royal council decided to assassinate the leaders of the Protestants Hugonotes , which lead to Catholic mobs butchering protestants in Paris.

Known as St. In , the second Day of the Barricades took place when the Parisians opposed the King due to the deplorable level of poverty.

This was the beginning of a long uprising called the Fronde parlementaire, a serie of civil wars that took place in France between and As a consequence of the Fronde, poverty spread throughout Paris. During this period, there was an explosion of the Enlightenment philosophical movement, whose principles are based on reason, equality and freedom.

Philosophers and authors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and Montesquieu fostered the Enlightenment, creating a need for a socio-economic equality that led to the revolution and the decline of the divine right monarchy. On the 14 July , the Parisians stormed the Bastille , symbol of the royal authority and on the 3 September , the first written Constitution was created and approved by King Louis XVI. However, Roman Paris was not a particularly large or important town.

It had a population of not more than 10, In the late 3rd century Paris and the surrounding region were converted to Christianity. However, by then the Roman Empire was in decline. In a race called the Franks captured Paris. Under the Franks Paris flourished. In the Vikings raided Paris. The French king paid them 7, pounds of silver to leave. But from the 11th century onward Paris prospered again. In the Middle Ages, Paris grew rapidly and it became one of the largest towns in Europe.

Its population probably reached , that might seem small to us but it was huge by Medieval standards. King Philippe-Auguste built a wall around Paris. He also built the Louvre fortress.

Medieval Paris was also a busy inland port with goods being brought to and from its wharves along the Seine. Paris was also noted for its scholars. Paris University became famous. Meanwhile, from the late 12th century onward the most famous cathedral in Paris, the Cathedral de Notre Dame was built. In the mayor of Paris Etienne Marcel led a rebellion in Paris to try and gain more rights for Parisian merchants. However, Royalist forces captured Paris in , and Marcel and his followers were executed.

In the English captured Paris. However, the French recaptured the town in Once again Paris flourished. Meanwhile, in the 16th century, the Reformation swept France. French Protestants were persecuted.

About 2, Protestants in Paris were murdered by Catholics. Many Catholics refused to accept Henri, however, and he had to fight for his throne. Yet in he converted to Catholicism and in he entered Paris. He found time to write three volumes of self-serving memoirs. These might be largely unread today, yet his memory lives on powerfully today in the new Paris he shaped — and in cities like Barcelona that followed his lead — if not in the narrow, but much-loved streets of the Marais.

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Concrete Ideas Architecture. The man who created Paris. Share using Email. By Jonathan Glancey 26th January Jonathan Glancey describes how the city of today was born. Haussmann turned Paris into a titanic building site for 20 years. Demolition man A public administrator with no training in architecture or urban planning, Haussmann turned Paris into a titanic building site for 20 years. Rip it up and start again No other major city, before or since, has been transformed so radically during peacetime.

No other city has been transformed so radically during peacetime.