Paris

In 1670, King Louis XIV adopted the plans of Libéral Bruant for the construction of a hospital for invalided soldiers, otherwise condemned to begging or theft. The works, the second most significant, after those of Versailles commenced in 1671. The Soldiers church opened in 1677. However, it was not until 1706 that the consecration of the royal church, celebrated for its gilded dome, marked the end of the work. Today the Dome of the Invalides contains the ashes of Napoleon brought back in 1840.

The musée d'Orsay was redeveloped in the old Gare d'Orsay, built by Victor Laloux and inaugurated in 1900 for the Universal Exhibition. It was registered as a listed building in 1978.
The museum was opened in December 1986 and was dedicated to all artistic production from 1848 to 1914. Paintings, pastels, sculptures, furniture and objets d'art, photography and documentary objects reflect the richness and diversity of this era.

Set up as 1889 by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the World Fair, the speedboat of which she was, the Eiffel Tower, of its 350 metres high, stays the up Paris in the edges of the Seine.

In the 1920's the St Germain quarter was the meeting place for the students, artists and writers of the Left Bank. After the German occupation it was the most fashionable district for jazz musicians, Jean-Paul Sartre and his existentialists, not forgetting Albert Camus and Boris Vian an artist of eclectic talents, a jazz trumpeter, a poet and novelist, who contributed greatly to the image of St Germain. The district became fashionable particularly because of the American Press, flattered at this acknowledgement of jazz, American music, much more appreciated in the City of Light than in the country where it was born.