A Complete History of Paris 

would love this to become a series! History of London, Bucharest, Tokyo :)

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 👍🏾

Ah, Haussmann... a very fitting name of an urban planner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Amazing to see how much a city can change during its lifetime! (Even during a single human lifetime!)

I love learning about topics like this! Would you consider making a similar video on Vienna as well?

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 🤦🏽‍♂️

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!

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!

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.

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

Excellent Video. Loved it. Would love it if you guys covered more major capitals cities of the world.

This was really fascinating I would love to see videos of other cities and their history (will check if they've already been done)

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.

Very interesting thank you for showing us this amazing history well done 👍

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.

Amazing knowledge to gain from this video. Good looks bro 😎

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)

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!

Incredible video

awesome!

Interesting note in re dismantling of certain structures and re-use of materials.

Very cool :)

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.

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.

Amazing I was here a week ago for the first time wow.

I love the history videos!

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?

Thanks, awesome as always!

I ma Parisian, i learnt lot of stuff ! Thanks for this vidéo 😊

this was so interesting! you should do one of london next

Such an amazing video! Not certain, but I think that quote is actually from Diderot, not JJR

Great video! I wish I could have seen it before visiting Paris. BTW, don't you mean "the escargot configuration we know today"? ;-)

At a glance I saw “Parisii” as “Paris!!” Like, you were really excited about the city being there lol

Great video, I just found the population counter a bit distracting. I would round the number by thousands or ten thousands.

Metro population for next cities please 🙏

Great video for an amazing city!

0:40 I think Rome is a bit too far north 😄

04:04 fun fact: Nicolas Flamel is still the owner of the oldest house in Paris.

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...)

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!

Central Paris is absolutely glorious. Stunning architecture. If you avoid the modern stuff and if they keep trimming the cars it will remain a gem

Please make a video on Buenos Aires or La Paz

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.

Great observation of Paris!👍🏽

Ma ville préféré!!

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.

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)

You should do istanbul too i think it would be great

please do more videos like this

A little disappointed you didnt mention paris commune, one of the most interesting moments in parisian history, and one of the most important events in modern history

I did not know that Nicholas Flamel was a real, historical person!

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.

Wow

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.

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.

Berlin be an interesting one of this

There is no year zero. Never was. After BC1, AD1 comes.

Please make this a new format!

Could you do a video on Omaha'a new riverfront parks?

Wide streets to prevent barricades is a myth.

make video on history of Delhi

I pulled my hair out when you pointed "Rome" to be where Milan is.

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.

Best kind of video

Great Rousseau quote! It's still true!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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.

7:55 the original robert moses

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City Beautiful… 0:44… on your map, Rome is on Mantua’s settlement.

Hello ! Thanks for the video, but you placed Rome in Mantova 🙂 Rome is in the Latium.

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 found the bottom counter to be distracting from the main video.

No. This video is about 33% wrong.

The quote is from Diderot, not Rousseau. Rousseau's famous quote is: "Man is born free but yet he is all in chains"

The history of Finland's capital Helsinki would be interesting

Parisii was the tribe that inhabited the area. The roman name for the city was Lutetia.

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.

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

8:40 huge help for Pokémon legends Z-A

Make it series!

It's not a Rousseau's quote but Diderot's

crazy how when this was uploaded Paris was peaceful and beautiful, now just a few days later it is engulfed in flames.

Your map has the changes made by Napolean III in the 1860's. Earlier maps would have been nice.

Can you do the history of Mexico City 🇲🇽

Paris or Lutetia Is " invented" Founded by the Roman's the Gallia Conquer...

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

at 0:40 I think Rome is way more south than this

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