Let's Go Paris, Amsterdam & Brussels by Harvard Student Agencies Inc

Author:Harvard Student Agencies, Inc.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Let's Go, Inc
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

250 CE. St. Denis picks up his freshly severed head from the ground and proceeds to march 10km while preaching a sermon (just your everyday post-beheading stuff).

Huns Hate Paris in the Springtime (250-1000)

In the fourth century, the city was renamed Paris after those first eager tourists cum founders. In spring of 451, yet another conqueror came to town: Attila the Hun. In response to the imminent attack, the recently christened Parisians did what they’d been taught—they prayed. Remarkably, the story goes, the prayers and works of penance led by Sainte Geneviève repelled Attila and his men from their city and on to Orléans (where they ultimately had the Roman and Visigoth armies to thank for their defeat). Geneviève was then named a patron saint of the city.

1163-1345. Notre Dame Cathedral is constructed. After years of househunting, Quasimodo finds a home.

In 508, Clovis, King of the Franks, named Paris his kingdom’s capital; in the 700s, the title was stripped from the city as the capital was moved northeast to Aachen. In 800, the Pope crowned Charlemagne, King of the Frankish people, as Holy Roman Emperor after expanding the empire to cover nearly all of central and western Europe. In 987, Hugh Capet, the Count of Paris and no relation to the Hugo Cabret of recent cinematic fame, became King of France, and Paris once again became the country’s capital.

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