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100 unusual facts about Paris


1985 French Open – Men's Doubles

The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1985 French Open was held from 27 May until 9 June 1985 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1986 French Open – Men's Doubles

The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1986 French Open was held from 26 May until 8 June 1986 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1988 French Open – Men's Doubles

The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1988 French Open was held from 23 May until 5 June 1988 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

2003 Brazilian Grand Prix

Oral arguments and timing evidence were presented to an FIA court in Paris, which, on April 11, awarded victory to Fisichella.

A Bit of Luck for Mabel

Arriving, he meets Tupper, who tells him the friend had to cancel their appointment and had left for Paris the previous evening.

A. Craig Copetas

Craig Copetas is an author and an international correspondent currently based in Paris.

Ain El Fouara Fountain

Two years later in 1896, the mayor of Sétif, M. Aubry, during a trip in Paris, asked the director of “Les Beaux-Arts” to donate a statue that will be used for the decoration of the fountain.

Algeciras Campaign

Troude had shown skill and bravery in the engagement, but his subsequent reputation was largely built on the strength of a report sent to Paris by Dumanoir le Pelley which was based on a letter written by Captain Troude.

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon

She is believed to have studied French, German, and Art while in Paris, France, and Stuttgart, Germany.

Anarchism in China

In Europe, Paris was particularly popular because it was relatively cheap, the French government helped to subsidize the students, and because France was seen as the center of Western civilization.

Ardre

It is crossed by the Paris to Reims motorway, A4/E50 about halfway along the river's length.

Arrival of the Hungarians

In 1891, Árpád Feszty saw a panoramic painting by Detaille and Neuville in Paris.

Auressio

One notable building in Auressio is the Villa Edera, which was built in 1887, for the Paris impresario Paolo Antonio Calzonio.

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

The winner receives A$25,000 and a three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Camille-Marie Stamaty

Stamaty's father died in 1818, which forced the family to move back to France, first to Dijon, later on to Paris.

Centre de liaison de l'enseignement et des médias d'information

Based in Paris, it is led by France Renucci, a lecturer at the Paris-Sorbonne University and its advisory council and development are chaired by Jean-Marie Smith, a former journalist from Le Monde.

Charenton, Louisiana

Frere, a native of Paris, reportedly exclaimed on his deathbed that "anyone choosing to move to that part of Louisiana belonged in Charenton!" Charenton was the name of a notorious insane asylum outside of Paris.

Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken

He was brought up by Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein the brother of his mother, and continued his studies in Tübingen and Paris.

Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun

In 1712, two years after Mohun's Whig party had been heavily defeated in an election, the Duke of Hamilton gained the post of special envoy to Paris.

Chatham Fernbird

Museums specimens can be seen in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, in the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Chicago, Christchurch, in the Natural History Museum, in the World Museum Liverpool, in the American Museum of Natural History, in Paris, in Pittsburgh and in Stockholm.

Christopher Nesham

He was at Vernon, in Normandy, in October 1789, when a furious mob fell upon a corn merchant, Planter by name, who had been charitable to the poor, but who, having sent flour to Paris, was accused of wishing to starve the town.

Chronique romane

The lost manuscript called Joubert, formerly of the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris, contained only the annals for 1088–1264.

Conn-Selmer

Establishing Henri Selmer & Cie. in 1885, Henri began making clarinet reeds and expanded into mouthpieces.

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In the late 1800s, brothers Alexandre and Henri Selmer graduated from the Paris Conservatory as clarinetists.

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex.

Costa neoRomantica

Her decks are named for well-known European cities: Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Verona, Paris, London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Dana Cunningham

Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1961, Dana eventually moved with her family to Texas where she grew up in Amarillo, Dallas, and Paris, Texas.

Domenico da Cortona

Domenico is also credited with designing the Église Saint-Eustache in Paris.

Dust Lane

The album was two years in the making and was largely recorded at Everything's Calm Studio I in Ushant with further parts recorded at Studio II in Paris and in the Philippines.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Édouard Rosset-Granger

In 1900, he was invited to paint Le Train blue on a decorative panel for the Gare de Lyon restaurant in Paris.

Eduardo Díez de Medina

Over 1,000 blank immigration permits were found for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris.

Emily Coleman

The diaries she kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable for chronicling her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country manor, Hayford Hall.

Ferdinand Konščak

Alexander von Humboldt used the maps in his work Carte generale... de la Nouvelle Espagne, (Paris, 1804).

Fort d'Aubervilliers

The Fort d'Aubervilliers is a former fortification of Paris built for 1842 to 1846 in Aubervilliers to control the "route de Flandre", now Route nationale 2, to the northeast of Paris.

Francis Thomé

Francis Thomé (October 18, 1850, Port Louis, Mauritius - November 16, 1909, Paris), was a French pianist and composer.

Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls

The treaty was signed on 17 May 1994 in Paris, and is drawn up in both a French and Dutch original.

Frederick William von Hessenstein

Frederick William, Prince von Hessenstein (26 November 1735, Panker - 17 April 1808, Paris), was a Swedish soldier and statesman.

Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band

In September 2007, the band was invited to perform at the "Briezh Touch" festival and parade in Paris, France.

Gaël N’Lundulu

By age 16 however he was ready to move on and sign professional terms with a team away from Paris as PSG were only willing to offer a trainee contract.

George Glynn Petre

He moved to Hanover in 1952, Paris in 1853, The Hague in 1855 and Naples in 1856, where he was chargé d'affaires from July 1856 when the ambassador, Sir William Temple, left due to illness, until October of that year when diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were broken off.

Georges Fragerolle

Against the advice of his parents, he tried to devote himself to opera, but failed to obtain admission to the Conservatoire de Paris.

Gregor von Feinaigle

Obligated to flee the monastery with the other monks due to the Napoleonic invasions, he became an itinerant professor in Karlsruhe, Paris, London, Glasgow and Dublin.

Henri Casadesus

Casadesus received his early musical instruction with Albert Lavignac and studied viola with Théophile Laforge at the Conservatoire de Paris, taking first prize in 1899.

Henri Mulet

He served as an organist in several churches in Paris {choirmaster of the basilica of Sacré-Coeur, Paris and titular organist at St Pierre-de-Montrouge (until 1901), St Eustache, Ste Marie des Batignolles (1910), St Roch (1912), and finally St Philippe du Roule in Paris}.

Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford

Leonard died ca 1693, in Paris very likely, and Anne remarried in the Church of St Eustace, Paris, in 1693 with the knight Bertrand Chohan de Coetcandec, son of Francois and Xillone de Kermeno, originated from Brittany.

Hoàng Xuân Hãn

Hoàng Xuân Hãn (Đức Thọ, 1908 – Paris, 10 March 1996) was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist.

Ion Jalea

The final touch of his artistic education was given in Paris at the Académie Julian, with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle.

Isango Portobello

Isango has since performed The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo in Dublin, Chichester, Canterbury, Tokyo, Singapore, Johannesburg, Rotterdam and Paris.

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

Ivan Senin

As a member of USSR delegation, in 1945 Ivan Senin participated in the UN conference in San Francisco, in 1947 in Paris on behalf of USSR Government he signed peace treaties with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.

Jean-Louis Duport

In 1812, Jean-Louis returned to Paris, where he encountered Napoleon, who insisted on trying out Duport's Stradivarius cello, exclaiming, "How the devil do you hold this thing, Monsieur Duport?"

Jeon Soo-il

He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France.

Jim Kendrick

Kendrick also played for the 36th Division in the 1919 American Expeditionary Force championship game in Paris.

John Herrmann

He lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of its famous expatriate American writers' circle, when he met his first wife, Josephine Herbst in 1924.

Katinka Kendeffy

She married Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka in Paris, on 9 July 1856, when Andrássy lived in emigration after defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Lack of outside support during the Warsaw Uprising

This basic scenario of an uprising against the Germans launched a few days before the arrival of Allied forces played out successfully in a number of European capitals, notably Paris and Prague.

Landsbanki

In 2005, Landsbanki acquired three European securities houses: Teather & Greenwood, located in London and Edinburgh; Kepler Capital Markets, headquartered in Paris; and Merrion Capital Group in Dublin.

Le Méridien

The first Le Méridien property was a 1,000-room hotel in Paris — Le Méridien Etoile.

Lit de Justice

He made one more winless start in France before being sold on July 17, 1994, to Carol and Cornelius Ray's Evergreen Farm located near Paris, Kentucky.

Looptopia

Billed as "Chicago's White Night", Looptopia was modeled after Nuit Blanche held annually in Paris.

Maria Anna Thekla Mozart

After Mozart’s return from Paris, Marianne accepted an invitation (given in the letter just quoted) to visit Mozart and his family in Salzburg.

Maria Jolas

Maria Jolas (January 12, 1893 – March 4, 1987), born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of transition in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas.

Mauricio Buraglia

Mauricio Buraglia (born in 1954 in Bogotà) is a Colombian composer, recording-artist, musician-lutenist and theorbist of Italian descent, active in Paris, France.

Néstor Almendros

But after two of his shorts (Gente en la playa and La tumba francesa) were banned, he moved to Paris.

Niyazi

Niyazi conducted many of the major symphony orchestras in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, New York, Paris, Istanbul, London, Tehran, Beijing and Ulan-Bator and played an important role in making the Azeri classical music known to the world.

Nomina Anatomica

The IANC’s revision of the BNA was approved in 1955 at the Sixth Congress, meeting in Paris.

Octroi

But such a drastic measure meant the stoppage of all municipal activities, and in 1798 Paris was allowed to re-establish its octroi.

Paris-Sorbonne University

Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in French literature, French language, Latin, Ancient Greek and Musicology take their classes at the Malesherbes center.

Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

The establishment of the university demonstrates the keenness of Abu Dhabi to create an international hub in culture and education as the establishment of the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum in 2007 shows as well.

Paris, Kentucky

The next year, though, it was renamed Paris after the French capital to match its county and honor the French assistance during the American Revolution.

Peace Through Superior Firepower

The DVD contains a full concert filmed on 2 April 2005 at Elysée Montmartre, Paris.

Pierre Brasdor

He took his degree in Paris as master of surgery in 1752, and was appointed regius professor of anatomy and director of the Academy of Surgery.

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory

It is part of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, a French governmental, non-profit research and higher education establishment located in Paris.

Prost AP01

With these problems allied with the relocation of the team's factory nearer Paris, the year turned into an exercise in damage limitation.

Pyotr Chikhachyov

Getting home education in Tsarskoye Selo, under the direction of lyceum professors, Chikhachyov finished his education abroad, attending the lectures of famous geologists and mineralogists, and then worked in Paris.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow

In 1560, eight years after his nomination, he was forced to retire to France, where he acted as confidential agent of Mary, Queen of Scots, and later openly as ambassador for James VI, until his death in Paris, 25 April 1603.

Rue Montorgueil

At the southernmost tip of rue Montorgueil is Saint-Eustache Church, and Les Halles, containing the largest indoor (mostly underground) shopping mall in central Paris; and to the north is the area known as the Grand Boulevards.

Sam Ku West

Sam Ku West (1907–1930) was an American steel guitar player from Honolulu, Hawaii he died in Neuilly sur Seine near Paris, France.

Second Battle of Algeciras

In France the battle was represented as a victory, largely based on a report sent to Paris by Dumanoir le Pelley on the strength of a letter written by Captain Troude, which claimed that he had fought not only Venerable and Thames, but also Caesar and Spencer (misidentified in the report as Superb).

Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet

He entered the British diplomatic service in 1906 and served in junior capacities in Constantinople, Tokyo, Paris and Tehran.

Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

An electronic version on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the soundtrack of the 1982 film "Liquid Sky".

Sorbet

By the end of the 17th century, sorbet was served in the streets of Paris, and spread to England and the rest of Europe.

Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora

In only 10 years, "Little Jaffna", located at the last stretch of the winding street of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, between metros Gare de Nord and La Chapelle, has sprung to life and begun to truly flourish.

Suttukeni

Jewellery from Suttukeny, dated to the 2nd century BCE, is on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris.

The Adventure of the Second Stain

Four days after the murder, a newspaper report from Paris connects Madame Henri Fournaye to Lucas's death.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The New Islander

Among some of the magazine's more personal pieces is a young man's recollection of the lessons learned while growing up in a Hispanic immigrant household, a young woman's reflection on an internship experience at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a young man's first-hand account of a Muslim protest in the streets of Paris, and an intoxicated student's unstable stream of consciousness.

Théâtre des Vampires

Before they make the agreement, Nicolas de Lenfent, an old friend of Lestat's who had moved to Paris with him, demands that Lestat give the Theatre to him, but Lestat refuses.

Tout-Paris

Le Tout-Paris was associated with particular fashionable places in the city, such as the restaurant (Maxim's, the large urban forest the Bois de Boulogne, Deauville, and so on, defining trends, giving an artist or writer their blessing, making or unmaking the reputation of a politician.

Turbigo

The battle is commemorated in the name of rue de Turbigo, a Paris street.

Udi Hrant Kenkulian

He toured internationally again in 1963, playing in Paris, Beirut, Greece, the United States, and Yerevan, then the capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Ukridge and the Home from Home

After a plot to imply the drainage in the house is faulty fails, Ukridge decides to claim the house is infected with Scarlet fever, but receiving a telegram from his aunt saying she will arrive in Paris the following week, and knowing a trip there always takes his aunt a few weeks, decides to delay shutting down his plan to grab a few more weeks rent.

Vijayanagara

In around 1500 Vijaynagar had 500,000 inhabitants, probably making it the second largest city in the world after Peking-Beijing and twice the size of Paris back then.

Ville de Paris

See French ship Ville de Paris

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

In 1962, Torun designed a stainless steel bangle-style wristwatch for an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna

To eliminate the problem, in cooperation with the French Military Mission to Poland and the Paris-based Ecole Superieure de Guerre, a Szkoła Wojenna Sztabu Generalnego (War School of the General Staff) was formed in mid-1919.

X-Corps

Together, they are able to free the minds of the villainous X-Corps members, as well as control several duplicates of Multiple Man, and use them in an assault on Paris.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Zamyatin settled with his wife in Paris, where he collaborated with French film director Jean Renoir.

Zografeion Lyceum

Christakis Zografos, who was living in Paris at the time, made the largest contribution, of 10,000 gold liras.


Ahmed Shawqi

After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.

Anatole Andrejew

Now retired, he divides his time between Paris and Honfleur in Normandy, where he paints Post-Impressionist art, mainly views of French cities and landscapes.

Antoine Cormery

Antoine Cormery graduated from Centre de formation des journalistes (the national centre for education in journalism) in Paris, 1991, then worked for AFP and RFI, before being hired by Europe 1 radio station by winning the bourse Lauga competition.

Bal du moulin de la Galette

The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Carolingian Schools

Through the influence of Alcuin, Theodulf, Lupus and others, the Carolingian revival spread to Reims, Auxerre, Laon and Chartres, where even before the schools of Paris had come into prominence, the foundations of scholastic theology and philosophy were laid.

Château de Vincennes

The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis.

Dan D. Yang

In 1991, Yang began her career teaching Optics and Photonics at the École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers in Paris, a historic school built by Napoleon that was mainly used for adult education programs.

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

Delphine LaLaurie

LaLaurie's house was subsequently sacked by an outraged mob of New Orleans citizens, and it is thought that she fled to Paris, where she is believed to have died.

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff

The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach studied physics and mathematics in Basel (with Rudolf Merian), Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Heinrich Gustav Magnus), Geneva, Paris (with Jules Célestin Jamin) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1855 in Basel.

Emma de Caunes

De Caunes was born in Paris, the daughter of the actor and director Antoine de Caunes and the director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Gare de Pierrelaye

Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Gilles de Roye

He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at Asnières-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes (Ten Duinen) at Koksijde, near Veurne, and devoting his time to study.

Hans Gissinger

His work has been featured in several individual exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and in France, including the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris in 2000 and the Musée de la Citadelle in 2004, as well as in numerous group exhibitions in France and around the world.

Harold Ambellan

After living several years in Montparnasse, one of the principal artistic communities of Paris, Ambellan decided to settle in the Greek-Roman enclave town of Antibes on the Côte d'Azur.

Hôtel Drouot

In 2008 Hôtel Drouot was ranked fifth by sales amongst Paris auction houses, after Sotheby's, Christie's, Artcurial, and Tajan.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

Jean-Jacques Ampère

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France.

Jean-Louis Jaley

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.

L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est...

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the second in a trilogy of films based on the children's animated television series Rugrats, which features the adventures of a group of toddlers.

Léo Marjane

The couple moved to the village of Barbizon, outside Paris, where they devoted themselves to horse breeding.

Léon Germain Pelouse

He moved to Britanny, there, inspired by nature around Pont-Aven and Rochefort-en-Terre, Pelouse realised landscapes which were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in the following years.

Loomis Dean

In 1956, while sailing to Paris to take a job in the magazine's bureau there, Dean photographed the sinking and the rescue of passengers from the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria.

Marcel Gromaire

Marcel Gromaire, whose father was an educator in Paris, was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France.

Marie Dominique Bouix

Monsignor Fornari, the papal nuncio at Paris, desiring to further the restoration of provincial councils, held a conference with Bouix and the Bollandist Van Hecke, at which it was decided that the best means of influencing public opinion aright would be the preparation of a book explaining the law of the Church on provincial councils.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Morris Engines

The Hotchkiss company of France, who were makers of the famous machine gun, hurriedly transferred production to England during World War I when it looked as if their St. Denis factory near Paris was going to be overrun by the Germans.

Norman's Awesome Experience

The Parisian locale of the film is about to be annexed by the Roman Empire at the time the protagonists arrive (during the reign of the Emperor Nero).

Pierre Hermé

In 1998, he started his own brand name Pierre Hermé Paris with a pastry boutique in Tokyo's New Otani Hotel, followed in July 2000 by a Salon de Thé in the Tokyo Disney shopping area Ikspiari.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Pierre Sancan

Pierre Sancan (October 24, 1916 in Mazamet – October 20, 2008 in Paris) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor.

Prinsenbeek

The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (Rotterdam - Antwerp) and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris.

Rainer Kuhlmey

He has won several national titles (including the 1968 German Team Championships with Eintracht Frankfurt), took part in several international tournaments, such as Beaulieu and Cannes Championships, and represented Germany in the main draw of the 1971 French Open – Men's Singles competition at Roland Garros, Paris.

Revaz Gabashvili

Briefly fleeing police persecution to Paris, he returned in 1907 and enrolled in the University of St. Petersburg, from where he was excluded on charges of being involved in students’ disorders in 1910.

Rick Lewis

The first of these were created by Marc Sautet in Paris, and by the late 1990s they numbered in the hundreds.

Robert Marteau

Robert Marteau (February 8, 1925 Virollet, Poitou – May 16, 2011 Paris) was a French poet, novelist, translator, essayist, diarist.

Ryan Max Riley

According to his Yale biography, Riley has a pet polish dwarf rabbit named Thibault after a character (Tybalt) in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and the pet lobster of the French poet Gérard de Nerval, a pet lobster that Nerval used to walk around Paris with a blue ribbon.

Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet

After leaving Paris they visited the major cities of Italy, including Rome and Florence, where Fitzherbert commissioned portraits of himself and his companion from Thomas Patch and Pompeo Batoni respectively.

Talbot Tagora

Fewer than 20,000 Tagora models were ever built, all of them at the former Simca factory in Poissy, near Paris, France.

Vedat Dalokay

Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.