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![The Judgement of Paris (Detail)](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2121.jpg?v=1716066187)
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The Judgement of Paris (Detail)
A detail from a fragmentary marble relief depicting the Judgement of Paris, one of the preliminaries in the Trojan War story. Paris wears his typical oriental cap and on the left is his companion, the shepherdess Oenone, who holds a syrinx...
![Adolf Hitler in Paris](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18902.png?v=1714052906-1714052968)
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Adolf Hitler in Paris
A photograph showing Adolf Hitler in Paris after the Fall of France in 1940. On the left is Albert Speer (Hitler's favourite architect and future Armaments Minister) and on the right is Arno Breker (architect and sculptor). Taken on 23 June...
![Return of Louis XVI to Paris After Varennes](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16240.png?v=1717626011-1660029078)
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Return of Louis XVI to Paris After Varennes
Depicts the return of Louis XVI and his family to Paris after their failed escape, 25 June 1791. By Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, c. 1791.
![Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris), West Façade](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13178.jpg?v=1725590464)
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Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris), West Façade
Like most Gothic cathedrals, the west façade of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris is tri-portaled, meaning it has three entranceways. Above each door is an elaborately carved tympanum depicting a story through sculpture, an accessible...
![View of Paris from the Trocadéro by Morisot](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15531.png?v=1723829586)
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View of Paris from the Trocadéro by Morisot
An 1872 oil on canvas painting, View of Paris from the Trocadéro, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California)
![Arrival of Napoleon at the Notre-Dame de Paris for his Coronation](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17570.jpg?v=1689221463-1688378373)
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Arrival of Napoleon at the Notre-Dame de Paris for his Coronation
Napoleon I (1769-1821) arrives at the Notre-Dame de Paris for his coronation ceremony, 2 December 1804. By Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, 19th century.
![Two Couples - Paris & Helen, Tristan & Iseult](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/10356.jpg?v=1723862584)
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Two Couples - Paris & Helen, Tristan & Iseult
Two couples - Paris & Helen, Tristan & Iseult by Giovanni dal Ponte (1385–1438 CE)
Czartoryski Museum
![A Lit de Justice at the Parlement of Paris, 1715](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15499.jpg?v=1647958552)
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A Lit de Justice at the Parlement of Paris, 1715
A lit de justice on 12 September 1715 in the presence of King Louis XV of France, against the Parlement of Paris. Power struggles between royal and parlement authority would continue up until the French Revolution abolished both monarchy...
![Isabella of France Arrives in Paris](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17338.jpg?v=1682582786-1682582818)
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Isabella of France Arrives in Paris
Meeting between Isabella of France, Queen of England, and her brother, Charles IV of France, in 1325, illustration from Froissart's Chronicles, c. 1475.
National Library of France, Paris.
![Head of a Statue of Paris](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16097.jpg?v=1656509399)
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Head of a Statue of Paris
Paris, son of Troy's King Priam and Hecuba, is wearing a Phrygian cap, the characteristic headgear of shepherds. According to the myth, an interpreter of dreams foretold that the child of Hecuba would bring the destruction of Troy and must...