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Paris

Parigi

Parisii

Lutetia

Lutetia Parisiorum

Lutetia Parisii

Parisius

parisien

parisienne

Parisian

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Paris is the city and capital of France, located in the north-central part of the country. It was founded more than 2,000 years ago on an island in the Seine River. The City of Paris itself covers an area of 41 square miles (105 square kilometers). It occupies a central position in the productive agricultural region known as the Paris Basin. It is the nation's most important center of commerce and culture. It was captured and fortified by the Romans in 52 BCE and ruled by various other groups such as the Clovis, Northmen, English, and Germans.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995); Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's French Dictionary (1981); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1990); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979); Times Atlas of the World (1994)...

Born

Balthus (French, 1908-2001)

Bernard Baron (French, active England, 1696-ca. 1766)

Thomas Blanchet (French, 1614-1689)

Jean Charlot (French, active Mexico and United States, 1898-1979)

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)

Elliott Erwitt (American, born France, born 1928)

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)

Pola Gauguin (French, 1883-1961)

Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835)

Paul Burty Haviland (French, active United States, 1880-1950)

George Inness, Jr. (American, 1853-1926)

Eugène Isabey (French, 1803-1886)

Paul Jacoulet (French, active Japan, 1902-1960)

Alain Kirili (French, born 1946)

Gaston Lachaise (American, born France, 1882-1935)

Marianne Loir (French, ca. 1715-after 1769)

Marisol (American, 1930-2016)

Reginald Marsh (American, born France, 1898-1954)

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Antoine Monnoyer (French, 1670-1747)

Simon Francis Ravenet the elder (French, active England, 1706 or 1721-1774)

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)

Theodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)

Alfred Sisley (French and British, 1839-1899)

Jean François de Troy (French, 1679-1752)

Maurice Utrillo (French, 1883-1955)

Active

Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006)

Araki Tetsuo (Japanese, active Japan and France, 1937-1984)

Eugene Berman (American, born Russia, 1899-1972)

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)

Auguste Delâtre (French, 1822-1907)

Edmond Desjobert (French, active 20th century)

Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, born 1948)

Juan Dolívar (Spanish, active France, 1641-1701)

Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968)

Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)

Charles Théodore Frère (French, 1814-1888)

Otto Fried (American, born Germany, 1922-2020)

Philippe Halsman (American, born Latvia, 1906-1979)

Hamaguchi Yôzô (Japanese, active France, United States, and Japan, 1909-2000)

Hans Hofmann (American, born Germany, 1880-1966)

Willem Kalf (Dutch, 1619-1693)

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (German, 1881-1919)

Jacques Lipchitz (French, 1891-1973)

Paula Luttringer (Argentinian, active France, born 1955)

Mercure de France (French, established 1890)

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer I (French, 1636-1699)

Elizabeth Nourse (American, active United States and France, 1859-1938)

Paul Outerbridge (American, 1896-1958)

Krishna Reddy (Indian, active India, France, and United States, 1925–2018)

Edda Renouf (American, born Mexico, born 1943)

Jaroslav Rössler (Czech, 1902-1990)

Edmond Sagot (French, 1857-1917)

Raghubir Singh (Indian, 1942-1999)

Sugai Kumi (Japanese, active Japan and France, 1919-1996)

Trianon Press (French, active 20th century)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, active England and France, 1834-1903)

Wou-ki Zao (Chinese, active France, 1921-2013)

Died

Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)

Hyacinthe-Louis-Victor-Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte (French, 1787-1858)

Mario Avati (French, 1921-2009)

Lewis Baltz (American, 1945-2014)

Jean Bérain I (French, 1640-1711)

Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616-1671)

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876-1957)

Félix Hilaire Buhot (French, 1847-1898)

Léon François Comerre (French, 1850-1916)

Michel Corneille the elder (French, 1601/1603-1664)

Jules Dupré (French, 1811-1889)

Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière (French, 1831-1900)

Eugène Grasset (French, born Switzerland, 1841-1917)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)

Henri Hayden (Polish, 1883-1970)

Jean-Jacques Henner (French, 1829-1905)

Hilaire Hiler (American, 1898-1966)

Philippe Hosiasson (French, 1898-1978)

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855)

Stanislas Lépine (French, 1835-1892)

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)

Albert Marquet (French, 1875-1947)

Gregory Masurovsky (American, active France, 1929-2009)

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)

Achille Emile Othon-Friesz (French, 1879-1949)

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (French, 1695-1736)

Camille Pissarro (French, born Danish West Indies, 1830-1903)

Paul Elie Ranson (French, 1862-1909)

Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)

Claude Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851-1934)

Gino Severini (Italian, 1883-1966)

Chaim Soutine (Russian, 1893-1943)

Huguette Sponenburgh (American, died 1961)

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859-1923)

Jacques Stella (French, 1596-1657)

Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865)

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865-1938)

Johann Georg Wille (German, active France, 1715-1808)

Félix Ziem (French, 1821-1911)

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