Paris: Stories from the City

PBS America

3:15 PM to 4:15 PM

Thursday 13 November

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A look at the French capital's architectural journey, from its Roman roots and its construction on an island in the Seine, where the magnificent medieval churches Notre Dame and Saint Chapelle were built, to the secular policies of today. Despite ongoing violence, protests, invasion and a civil war, Napoleon and his nephew Napoleon the third were great builders who set about re-inventing the city in the 19th Century, creating a model city copied thoughout Europe and the world