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Lutetia, Paname, Pampeluche – here are other names, and nicknames of “the most beautiful city in the world”-Paris

September 16, 2024
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Paris /pa.ʁi/ is the capital city of France. The city is divided into twenty arrondissements, it is the capital of the Île-de-France region (IDF also called the région parisienne or Paris region) and the seat of the métropole du Grand Paris or Great Paris Metropolis (a metropolis bringing together the city of Paris and 130 municipalities, including all the municipalities of the departments of the inner suburbs -la petite couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne) as well as seven municipalities of the greater suburbs– la grande couronne (six of Essonne and one of Val-d’Oise). The neighbouring departments are Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val de Marne.

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The city of Paris is a CSP (collectivity with a special status). Pursuant to Article 72 of the Constitution, a CSP does not fall into the three categories of municipalities, departments and regions. However, a CSP is not an overseas collectivity governed by Article 74 of the Constitution. The area of the city of Paris is 105.40 km2

Paris with its 20 arrondissements

Paris is part of Île-de-France region

The Greater Paris metropolis within the Île-de-France region

With an area of 12,012 km2, Île-de-France is one of the smallest French regions (the smallest in metropolitan France after la Corse), but by far the largest in terms of population with about 12 million inhabitants in 2015, i.e. just under 18% of the French population.

The municipal boundaries of Paris and those of its adjacent communes in the Paris Region.

Paris

The Zero Point (more precisely the Zero Kilometre Point) of the Routes de France is materialized by a four-quarter slab in the center of which is placed an octagonal medallion representing a compass rose. It is from this point that the road differences between Paris and other cities in France are calculated, in kilometres. This Point Zero is located on the square in front of Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, France

The city of Paris referred to by different names and nicknames

(1) Lutetia

It is the oldest of the names of Paris. The Romans called Lutetia Parisiorum the Gallo-Roman city known today as Paris. The inhabitants of Lutetia Parisiorum (or Frenchized Lutèce) were called the “civitas Parisiorum” or “urbs Parisiorum”. It was around 310 AD that Lutetia took the name of Paris, by abbreviation of the Latin words “civitas Parisiorum” or “urbs Parisiorum” from the name of the Gallic people who had occupied the site since the third century BC. A.D.: the Parisii.

Paris under the Romans in the General Atlas of History and Geography by Vidal de La Blache.

(2) Paname

Paname is a slang name given to Paris from the twentieth century (more precisely from the end of the First World War). In his Dictionnaire de l’argot, Jean-Paul Colin gives the etymology of Paname (or Panam): “enormous city”. The adjective panama means according to the same dictionary “huge, confounding” in old slang. Paname means the city of the elegant

(3) Other nicknames for Paris

  • Pantruche (slang of Pantin that can be heard in the songs of Aristide Bruant, from the end of the First World War. Jehan-Rictus, Complainte des petits déménagements parisiens)
  • Beriz (in Arabic)
  • Saturn
  • Pantin in the nineteenth century, used by Victor Hugo
  • The capital (La capitale)
  • The Grand’Ville (La Grand’Ville)

(4) The names of Paris in periphrasis

  • La Ville Lumière (The City of Light)
  • La ville aux cent villages (The city of a hundred villages)
  • La cité de l’amour (The City of Love)
  • La plus belle ville du monde (The most beautiful city in the world)
  • La capitale de la mode, la capitale européenne de la mode ou la capitale mondiale de la mode (The fashion capital, the European fashion capital or the fashion capital of the world)
  • La capitale de la création (The capital of creation)
  • La capitale de la gastronomie (The capital of gastronomy)
  • La capitale de l’art de vivre (The capital of the art of living)

Lutetia, Paris, Pampeluche-in short “the City of Light”-Paris in pictures

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Tour Eiffel : Champ de Mars, 5, Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris

Montmartre et le Sacré-Cœur: 35, Rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 75018 Paris

Le parc de Belleville: 47, Rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris

La tour Montparnasse: 33, Avenue du Maine, 75015 Paris

Le ballon du parc André Citroën: Parc André Citroën, 75015 Paris

L’Arc de Triomphe: 27, Rue Vernet, 75008 Paris

L’Arc de Triomphe: 27, Rue Vernet, 75008 Paris

La tour Saint-Jacques: Square de la tour Saint-Jacques, 75004 Paris

L’horloge du musée d’Orsay: 1, Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007 Paris

La Grande Arche de la Défense :1, Parvis de la Défense, 92800 Puteaux

Le pont Bir-Hakeim :2, Quai de Grenelle, 75015 Paris

Le mont Valérien: Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 92150 Suresnes

The Alexandre-III bridge was inaugurated for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition. Since then, its golden cherubs have watched over the many passengers who use it every day.

The Place du Trocadéro is convincing. And if it is regularly (over)populated, it is nevertheless an essential place in Parisian life.

On the Seine, seen from the Eiffel Tower, “the iron lady”!

Paris,La cité de l’amour

It is from the top of the Arc de Triomphe that you become most aware of the grandeur and excesses of one of the most beautiful avenues in the world.

An open-air boulevard lined with trees, the Champs-Élysées is undoubtedly the central artery that makes the heart of the city of Paris beat.

The Sacré-Coeur basilica is now one of Paris’ flagship monuments, under which tourists, street vendors and other film lovers mingle in a joyful cacophony as they come to walk in the footsteps of Amélie Poulain.

La basilique du Sacré-Cœur la beauté parisienne

The Musée d’Orsay has been the symbol of this former train station transformed into a cultural hotspot for years, it is also worth looking up a little more to appreciate the incredible glass roof of the Musée d’Orsay.

The Tuileries Gardens. Summer or winter, the Tuileries are a beautiful moment of escape in the heart of Paris.

The Louvre Pyramid is undoubtedly one of the major monuments of the City of Light.

Day and night, the Louvre pyramid attracts and fascinates, and remains, over time, one of the most beautiful places in the capital.

At dawn or dusk, summer or winter, whether it’s raining, snowing, windy or the sun shimmering on its surface, the Seine remains a Parisian must-see.

Whether you are walking along the banks of the Seine, sailing on a chic cruise or flying over it on your way to another destination, the Seine fascinates and attracts.

The building of the Centre Pompidou is recognizable among thousands.

The cultural venue of Paris, the Parc de la Villette with its linear architecture is full of buildings that catch the eye. The Philharmonie de Paris is one of them.

Paris, Tour Montparnasse- le soleil et les fleurs reviennent on est prêts pour profiter sur Paris!

This world,

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