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The Paris Opera was the centrepiece of Napoleon IIIs new Paris. The architect, Charles Garnier, described the style simply as Napoleon the Third.
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In the 1860s, Paris streets and monuments were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, giving it the name The City of Light.
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The Eiffel Tower, under construction in November 1888, startled Parisians and the world with its modernity.
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The Centre Georges Pompidou, a museum of modern art (1977), put all its internal plumbing and infrastructure on the outside.
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Tourists from around the world make the Louvre the most visited art museum in the world.
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The former main building of the University of Paris is now used by classes from Paris-Sorbonne University and other autonomous campuses
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