But experiencing the history of Paris in an orderly fashion is not the cataphiles' style.
The Breton region has a long history of rebellion against Paris.
The exhibit was created by the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris and curated by Christian Delage, a documentary filmmaker and history professor at the University of Paris.
And yet "we only know the tip of the iceberg, " says ecologist Benoit Fontaine of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
He joined a team of researchers sent to Mauritania by the Museum of Natural History in Paris, an institution he was to be associated with all his life.
In 1982, a French scientist named Roger Bour of the Paris Natural History Museum concluded that the Schweigger specimen didn't originate from Aldabra, after all.
But stepping through the front door took you into another world - high ceilings, big bright windows and a sense of history - a third-floor home that would not look out of place in Paris.
Previously the worst accident in aviation history was a Turkish airlines crash near Paris with the loss of 346 lives.
They can point to the fact the revolution was explicitly ruled legal by the Treaty Of Paris of 1783, and that much of British history afterward supports the idea of independence and the dismantling of the colonial empire.
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Filled with enthusiasm following the success of his Paris show, Mr Castelli took graduate courses in art history until he was drafted into the United States Army, where he worked in intelligence.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
"In Paris we happen to have the most important museums covering almost all of art history--from its earliest origins through the Modernist movement, " Pinault says grandly.
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Next week, the leading industrial democracies will gather in Paris to hold what may be one of the most important meetings in the history of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls, a group known best by the acronym COCOM.
History does not record what the tired, humble witness made of de Gaulle's proud claim that a humiliated Paris had found redemption by the act of liberating itself.
From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
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