A Complete History of Paris
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Paris is an amazing city with an incredible history. This video tracks that history year by year as it grew from a trading post on the outer reaches of the Roman Empire to the City of Light.
Resources on this topic:
Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones (www.amazon.com/Paris-Biograph...)
Walks Through Lost Paris by Leonard Pitt (www.amazon.com/Walks-Through-...)
www.wri.org/insights/paris-15...
www.comeetie.fr/galerie/BatiP...
Produced by Hannah Woolsey, Dave Amos, and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
Written by Hannah Woolsey and Dave Amos
Select images and video from Getty Images.
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would love this to become a series! History of London, Bucharest, Tokyo :)
I agree! Also Amsterdam and Mexico City would be great
Prague as well considering 50% of the Historic Center has survived intact, along with the easily discernable later developments of suburbs that were then incorporated.
Warsaw, maybe?
Athens.
Stockholm!
Damn, this was like a live-action Wikipedia of a historical city.
Gonna need more of these kind of videos. Would be an awesome series 👍🏾
He has tons of great city videos over on nebula!
Agreed!
You get the same adds there ? The romans adopted to Christianity, but the King needed total power.
@@lucasrem There are no adds, including these ending sequences talking about sponsors, on nebula.
Kinda felt like ye old Grandpa reding an encyclopedia
I’m glad you included the quote from Rousseau; many revisionists like to paint revolutionaries in a non-violent light but Rosseau's own words reveal his true intentions.
That quote was from Diderot, not Rousseau.
Don't really see how this is relevant in architecture context.
Rousseau never lived to see the Genevan or French revolutions. And he was quite peaceful, although maybe if he lived through the revolution he wouldn't have been lol
The French Revolution is a very complex and interesting story. The monarchs had too much power and a revolution was needed...but the leading group of the revolution would be no better (even worse) than the monarch with their violence, especially the Reign of Terror which lead to mass executions. But then a moderate group was able to get rid of the extremist...only for Napolean to return France to an autrocratic state but this time as Emperor. They went back and forth between Republic & Empire for several decades. Meanwhile, many other countries in the 1800's had much quicker and better transition to a democracy or republic or anything that wasn't a single person rule.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Better transition ? Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy, Russia, Yougoslavia, Greece or Romania would have a word to say...
after going to the summit of the eiffel tower, i was truly blown away by how many buildings and dense districts were in seemingly every corner of paris
Where are you from, you don’t have that, new town ?
@@lucasrem Paris is literally the densest city in the whole the Western world so yeah, it's probably not like that where he lives.
@@thibault973 Madrid as a capital is even denser.
@@francoisleyrat8659 no. It's not. All 5 densest cities in Europe are part of Paris inner suberbs with Paris itself sitting at #11.. Paris is 4 times denser than Madrid so they are not even in the same league really in terms of density.
@@lucasrem i live in the new york area, and it's still not close to paris
Good video but I think there a few things to double check:
1) Doesn't seem fair to say that Notre-Dame was part of the origins of the Gothic style without mentioning the earlier Saint-Denis and the influence it had.
2) I think maybe this gives the Franks too much credit for popularizing Christianity in the region, because hadn't Christianity already been the state religion of Rome for over a century by that point?
3) The quote here attributed to Rousseau is more commonly attributed to Diderot, though that is also disputed. Finding the true origin of quotes can be just about impossible.
4) The yearly population counts can't be verified to nearly the level of precision shown here. No way any academic would approve so many significant figures, at least not not from premodern times.
5) The thing about the wide Paris boulevards being designed to suppress revolts is treated as fact by many people, but it's a disputable claim.
True. Gothic style is called french style originaly
He is not local, you need facts, ask them !
En effet, Napoléon III à voulu que Paris soit comme Londres de l'époque.
Il a donc donné carte blanche à Hausman pour agrandir, aérer et embellir Paris.
Small correction: the Grande Arche de La Défense was actually one of François Mitterrand's " Grands Projets" (the Louvre Pyramid, Musée d'Orsay, Parc de la Villette, Arab World Institute, Opéra Bastille, Paris Bercy, Bibliothèque nationale de France).
I just got done researching the french revolution haha. Ironic that I find this after just learning more about the revolution.
In the City of Lights the renowned French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson created many pictures never using a flash, favoring the diffused light of overcast days.
I think it was a shame that you only counted the population within city limits at the end. It doesn't let you contemplate how big it got.
I agree, it doesn't make sense to isolate Paris into an island when it only makes sense as a proper city when you consider the greater Paris region. A very silly mistake for an urbanist, am a bit disappointed
Agreed. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh combined have the same population as Paris, but Île-de-France has a population similar to the whole of Pennsylvania.
You’re right, without administrative district limitation Paris City/Area is +10millions people.
He made the video he wanted to. You can do the same. Nothing's stopping you.
@@LumiMoonCh This have always been terrible takes.
Since the title of this video is currently "How Did Paris Become a Global Powerhouse?", I find it disappointing that you didn't discussion wealth extraction from rural France or the global colonialism of the French empire at all. Thomas Piketty has done some interesting work on the subject and it's clear that Paris was dramatically changed by these wealth flows.
Of course, going into more detail would make this video hours long rather than minutes.
Great points!
Ah, Haussmann... a very fitting name of an urban planner.
the master of haussing!
Actually it should translate as "house man", ie a domestic!
Amazing to see how much a city can change during its lifetime! (Even during a single human lifetime!)
Just arrived in Paris with my students for a month-long study abroad program. This vid could not be more perfect for them or more better-timed. Thanks!
I thought the population tally was accounting for the metro area, until I saw it starting to decrease in the 1960s and get stucked in 2 mill 🤦🏽♂️
Yes, too bad that the Metropolitan Area population was not used, as the City Proper population, at least concerning Paris, is totally misleading... 🙄
If only Parisians managed to preserve at least one small medieval district. It would be fascinating sight today. What surprises me most is how similar medieval Paris architecture looked to medieval London or medieval German cities. All dominated by half-timbered houses. Must be Frank influence. I love Paris, especially now that it has embraced cycling but being a big city its monotonous hausmannian architecture robs it quite a bit of charm. It is of course well compensated by numerous sights but still I feel like too much has been lost through the centuries. Maybe that is why I am more attracted to smaller French cities which preserved more of their history like Tours.
I'm just glad that Le Corbusier didn't get his Paris city plan implemented.
@@rexx9496 Thank God! Oh Thank God! That would have been a disaster!
Id prefer they save a roman area with its street grid
Rouen is the largest French city that preserved its (frankish
orman style) half-timbered architecture, even though ~30% of it was destroyed in a war. So it gives the best feel comparison to the medieval Paris.
But the medieval buildings in Paris were replaced long before Haussmann, mostly from 1750s. So by Haussmann time, the city was dominated by 18th c. stone- and stucco-faced townhouses subdivided for apartments (originally each plot was a single-family home). Many half-timbered houses remained, just the facade covered with stone or stucco, and only a handful are uncovered for example on rue Francois-Miron.
Finally it is a myth that Haussmann demolished all of this. In fact most has remained. A total of ~50% of pre-Haussmann housing stock in intramural Paris remains, if you know where to look. There is a helpful map which I can't link on youtube. But districts such as Le Marais, Saint-Germain, Île Saint-Louis - retained both medieval plan and most of its pre-Haussmann buildings.
@@vaevictis3612 Is the reason that you're unable to link due to YT auto-deleting your posts with urls in them? This happens to me and it drives me nuts because I see other people able to post links. I've never spammed or had any type of violations on my account.
I love learning about topics like this! Would you consider making a similar video on Vienna as well?
This was a great video! The only issue is the map displays the city of Paris’ population but shows growth of the whole île de france region which houses around 14 million people
I love the subtitles stuggling to keep up with proper nouns. Perhaps my favorite line is "Under the Mayor of Engineering Rule Pairs became the capital of the country." (Under Merovingian Rule Paris became the capital of the country)
Brilliant work, an introduction to learn more about Paris in many aspects. Still a place to visit and enjoy, on a bike being a good idea.
A great you tube channel you have there by the way!
Underrated: the Church’s University of Paris quickly became the most important university during the golden age that was the High Middle Ages. Every major academic would visit Paris, if not take permanent residence there, making Paris the intellectual epicenter of Europe for centuries.
This was really fascinating I would love to see videos of other cities and their history (will check if they've already been done)
Excellent Video. Loved it. Would love it if you guys covered more major capitals cities of the world.
Phenomenally comprehensive. Superb presentation. Thanks for posting!
Would you be willing to share the data source for the year/population tracker? Or the widget/process for having it interactively follow along with the video? Or both?
GIS guy here. Would love to play around with the data. Lots of stuff goes on behind the scenes to present the information the way you did!
I don't think the tracker is actually year by year. There's probably some census points and in between just a straight line fill in between.
@@Dayvit78 That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the comment!
Very interesting thank you for showing us this amazing history well done 👍
Amazing knowledge to gain from this video. Good looks bro 😎
A. very interesting video about an extraordinarily beautiful and culturally exciting city. But, please, correct the positioning of Rome on the geographic map, when you mention the Roman Empire. We are way lower, in the middle of Italy. Milan is actually up there, where you pin Rome in your Map. Beyond that, a great video.
This video is NOT about why Paris is a powerful city, where its wealth came from which paid for all the monuments and infrastructure there. It's a history of how the city looks and who its architects and planners were.
True, I'm kinda disappointed. It's a good video, but not why I decided to watch it originally
Hi Dave. Can you make a video on how good city planning helps in law enforcement or any video which relates city planning and law enforcement?
Great video! I wish I could have seen it before visiting Paris. BTW, don't you mean "the escargot configuration we know today"? ;-)
Paris also had the first ever network resembling a modern transit system, with carriages running regular routes for a low price (the carrosses à cinq sols). It was started by Blaise Pascal (genius who invented the first ever mechanical calculator at age 19, and whom we measure atmospheric pressure with) because he wanted to provide cheap transportation for the lower classes. The problem was that the higher strata of society didn't want to mix and so the market was reduced, and the whole thing failed after a few years. The world would have to wait another 150 years to see public transit be re-invented.
At a glance I saw “Parisii” as “Paris!!” Like, you were really excited about the city being there lol
Such an amazing video! Not certain, but I think that quote is actually from Diderot, not JJR
Interesting note in re dismantling of certain structures and re-use of materials.
0:40 I think Rome is a bit too far north 😄
There is a mistake in the video. It show the population of Paris as a little bit more than 2 million, which the correct population of the City of Paris. But the video also mentions La Defense, which is not in the city but in the metro area, with around 13 million habitants. Since the video asks how Paris became a global peer house, it is more relevant show the meteo area population, more so because the population in the City of Paris is declining, meanwhile the metro area continues attract more people.
this was so interesting! you should do one of london next
quick correction, at 4:05 the houses displayed are the ones at 11 and 13 Rue François Miron, not Rue de Montmorency. Otherwise, great video!
Metro population for next cities please 🙏
04:04 fun fact: Nicolas Flamel is still the owner of the oldest house in Paris.
Great video, I just found the population counter a bit distracting. I would round the number by thousands or ten thousands.
Incredible video
Nice overview of paris. Suggestion: replace latin quarter map used in earlier part of video with a more accurate map. A current map of the 5th arrondissement with its 4 quarters is misleadingly used. Several historic maps of roman paris are available, illustrating how it was centered with the il de la cite.
I think Parisii was the name of for the people/tribe inhabiting the region, not the name of the settlement that was at the origin of the city.
I ma Parisian, i learnt lot of stuff ! Thanks for this vidéo 😊
Why to have chosen the (useless and misleading) City Proper population until the end?
A right figure would be the Urban Area population (now around 11 Millions), or even better: the Metropolitan Area population (now around 13,5 Millions), which would reflect a lot better the real size of this "city", and would allow a real comparison with the other equivalent big cities in Europe (Moscow, Istanbul, London...)
Amazing I was here a week ago for the first time wow.
It would be intersting to include the urban area in a story about a city like Paris, since the borders effectively stalled in the 19th century unlike many other cities (like London). Paris is much bigger than the official city figure would imply with dense city fabric extending far beyond its official borders. (To be clear, I don't necessarily think that expanding the city borders would be a good thing, at some point city governance just becomes so alienated from its people as it becomes larger and larger, that it makes more sense to view the city as a region and neighborhoods as cities)
awesome!
Hello, I live in Watertown, MA, a suburb of Boston. I wanted to tell you about the abhorrent transit situation that the nearby city of Lynn has found itself in. The city has been building more densely around its commuter rail station, however, the MBTA has closed the station due to the disrepair of the building, even though it was built in 1991. A new station will not be done until 2030, which is absolutely ridiculous.
The city has urged the MBTA to build a temporary platform, which will take 12-18 months. Otherwise, they have to take a shuttle bus to Swampscot for the commuter rail or a shuttle to Revere for the Blue Line, which will take a long amount of time during rush hour. It's ridiculous that Lynn, which is the same distance to Boston and Brooklyn is to Manhattan, has no accessible transit to get to Boston. This is compounded by the fact of the large Latino and Black population in Lynn. This has also caused economic problems as building contractors to have densified around the station will suffer since young commuters will not move in without transit. This has led to a grocery store cancelling its plan to move into one of the buildings. I wanted to spread the news about this. If you want to see the full article, it's in the June 25th Boston Globe written by Joan Vennochi.
The MBTA is worse now than it was before Charlie Baker took office.
There are a lot more medieval buildings than in, say, London. This is not always obvious as the facades often are now covered in stucco covering the old half-timber underneath. The interiors are wonderfully labyrinthine and the roof beams were often taken from the frames of broken up ships.
Why does the population drop so consistently from ~1960 to the present? The entire Paris metro must have grown. What happened to the city itself?
people moved to the suburbs and in paris, the suburbs arent counted as paris but each independent city. Parisians are being priced out of the city centre and moving to the outer suburbs,
Actually population didn't drop. There is a biais: "Paris" (2 million inhabitants) is a small part of the "aglomeration of Paris", narrowed into a boulevard called the "pérphérique". All the cities outside this boulevard (around 8 Million inhabitants) are not statistically parisians but technicaly, they are. The Subway system spread over the Périphérique, the business district, main stadiums and of course airports are also outside. So, just considering Paris for thé Citya center IS a terrible mistake.
Way too expensive to live in the city center, people are moving to the suburbs or to other French cities with a better quality of life.
Average sq metre property price in Paris, despite a slight decrease : 11 000 €, 13- 15 000 € in the most central neighbourhoods. Also smaller households living in the same flats/apartments, many families with children having moved out. In the 1960's you shared a room with a sister/brother well into teenage. No longer.
It's interesting how time has been favorable to Haussmann. His name is mostly synonymous with his style of buildings, which is itself synonymous with the beauty of Paris. The amount of displacement required with little compensation is mostly left to history such as this video. Meanwhile Robert Moses has become the devil in urbanist circles (for good reasons) even though he had far less freedom to implement his ideas. But the negative effects he had are closer to us in time.
Worth noting that this is the population of Paris Intramuros, basically the historic center, the arrondissements, but the map shows the boundaries of the Paris Urban Area, or Unité Urbaine, which has an actual population of just under 11 Million.
Very cool :)
The city changed its name to Paris during the fourth century. During this period, the city was threatened by Attila the Hun and his army, and according to the legend, the inhabitants of Paris resisted the attacks thanks to the providential intervention of Saint Geneviève (patron saint of the city).
In 508 the first king of the Franks, Clovis I, made Paris the capital of his empire. In 987, the Capetian dynasty came to power until 1328.
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.
I did not know that Nicholas Flamel was a real, historical person!
I love the history videos!
Please make a video on Buenos Aires or La Paz
Great video about the history of Paris but the title is somewhat misleading since you don't actually tackle why it became such an iconic city.
Great video for an amazing city!
The quote is from Diderot, not Rousseau. Rousseau's famous quote is:
"Man is born free but yet he is all in chains"
Thanks, awesome as always!
Please make this a new format!
You should do istanbul too i think it would be great
Could you do a video on Omaha'a new riverfront parks?
Wide streets to prevent barricades is a myth.
really? Where's that from? Giving the Paris commune was a thing at the time, very well could be like the Egyptians did in Cairo to prevent revolution against the military junta.
Non c'est bien réel
Interesting presentation; however, towards the end of the video, you're showing the extend of urbanisation beyond the city limits , whilst giving only the population of the municipality of Paris. If you're taking the entire Paris Urban Area, it would be more like 10 million people.. The question of where Paris stops is indeed a tricky one!
Indeed 👍
Actually, Paris Urban Area population is now about 11M, and its Metropolitan Area population is above 13M 🙂
well no the question is pretty easy. Paris limits are within the boulevard périphérique, the circular road going all around the city. Everything after that is not only not paris, it’s also entire different departments.
@@rahhuuuu2321 That's a very simplistic view; the City of Paris and the "banlieue" work as one urban unit: could you imagine Paris without la Défense, La Plaine St Denis, Rungis, Marne la Vallée (etc, etc...) ?
Just stand in the middle of the city and you'll quickly realise you're not at the centre of a 2 million people municipality but of something much larger!
Consider covering "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air". It is an excellent book that is low on adjectives and high on numbers, and it encourages readers to solve the energy challenge however they want, requiring only that the numbers add up, I.e. energy production must equal consumption.
Great observation of Paris!👍🏽
Great history summary on Paris! I watched a few seasons of Viking and found it odd that they portrayed Paris as being such a large city in the 800's or 900's. It was later that it became a big city.
Historical dramas are contemporary re-imaginings. Nobody would want to see a western with cowboys spitting tobacco juice everywhere...as they did.
Berlin be an interesting one of this
Hello ! Thanks for the video, but you placed Rome in Mantova 🙂 Rome is in the Latium.
Parisii was the tribe that inhabited the area. The roman name for the city was Lutetia.
I pulled my hair out when you pointed "Rome" to be where Milan is.
Great Rousseau quote! It's still true!
apparently it's a Diderot quote
@@Game_Hero I could see that
make video on history of Delhi
Ma ville préféré!!
The history of Finland's capital Helsinki would be interesting
please do more videos like this
Wow
Could you please include the following architectural designs in your videos? Thank you
British (Colonial)
Tudor Half Timber Architecture
Victorian
Georgian
French Chateau
Italian Venetian (Roman Villa)
German
Cape Dutch
Arabic/Islamic
Japanese (Minka)
American
Neo-Classical
Baroque
Swiss Chalet
Indo-Saracenic
Greek/Roman Revival
Queen Anne/Victorian
Cotswold/Storybook
Mediterranean/Renaissance Revival
A-framed house
Hillside House
Taohuayuan Chinese-style mansion
Palatial Medieval fantasy fairytale castle
Thai architecture
Palladian
Pueblo revival
Andalusian
Rococo
Tuscan
Rajput
Russian Dacha
Romanesque architecture
Eclectic
Romanian architecture
Second Empire
Art Deco
Renaissance revival
Beaux-arts
Chateauesque
Jacobean
Prairie School
Rustic
Exotic revival
Chateaux
7:55 the original robert moses
I found the bottom counter to be distracting from the main video.
There is no year zero. Never was. After BC1, AD1 comes.
There is a '0 point' on the timeline, of course, (the transition from BC to AD), which may be marked as 'AD0' (or, in a common error, 0AD.*) if the display is arranged such that the numbers are placed on the end-posts of the year rather than labling the sections, but that's not the same thing.
*and then there's BCE/CE which is litterally just the same system relabled so as to annoy Even More people and make it easier to mishear rather than actually improving anything.
i guess the 12 days of christmas period could be considered "0AD" because it was when the transition from BC to AD technically happened
Of course there is no year 0. AD1 I'd calculated from the birth of Jesus. It was an arbitrary decision.
You may call it CE but the fact that is counted from the above it still relates to Jesus.
No reason for using that euphemism nonsense.
Due to above a century ends with 100s and millennia with 1000s.
The 21st century started with 2001 inspite many belived otherwise.
These are facts.
If there was a year zero, we would know what happened then. But nothing did. Since such thing never existed.
who would say, that the new houses built over historical sites in the XIX century, are nowadays historical sites
City Beautiful… 0:44… on your map, Rome is on Mantua’s settlement.
I wish more of the medieval & renaissance buildings had remained. The city is beautiful but it's also a bit monotonous..
Si vous aimez les villes médiévale il y à Rouen, ville qui compte le plus de maison à colombages d'Europe
And u hate china . Which preserved it's history
crazy how when this was uploaded Paris was peaceful and beautiful, now just a few days later it is engulfed in flames.
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at 0:40 I think Rome is way more south than this
Great video but just at the end the population of 2 million inhabitants is for "Paris intra-muros" or Paris intramural 8n English but the map shows Paris and its suburbs where its population is about 7 million inhabitants
Paris and its suburbs actually are more than 13 millions inhabitants 😉
@@user-yl3nu3zq9p I'm French and I'm from Paris so I know a bit but it's complicated there is so many different ways to calculate the population of Paris
@@user-yl3nu3zq9p so yeah it's true but this is more complicated than that
Paris or Lutetia Is " invented" Founded by the Roman's the Gallia Conquer...
Your map has the changes made by Napolean III in the 1860's. Earlier maps would have been nice.
It's not a Rousseau's quote but Diderot's
8:40 huge help for Pokémon legends Z-A
Strongly recommend change to professional voice-over by one who understands a period at end of sentence does not signify the voiceover to rise as in a question.
Hausmann wasn't a planner, just an executive !
He participated himself to the creation of this image when he published his autobiography, beleiving the documents proving his claim wrong had burned.
No.
This video is about 33% wrong.
Can you do the history of Mexico City 🇲🇽
You should indicate the population of the metropolis as well (11 millions), it does not make sense to only speak about the city centre (aka. the municipality of Paris)
There’s no year 0