Paris

French capital city · founded antiquity; major events 1789–2015 · north-central France
Paris is the capital of France, site of the 1789 Bastille storming and repeated revolutionary upheavals through modern terrorism.
The kit
- Revolution — Paris saw citizens storm the Bastille in 1789 and thousands killed in the September Massacres.
- Urban redesign — Paris underwent Baron Haussmann's renovations widening streets to prevent barricade construction and ease troop movement.
- Commune — Paris was seized by the 1871 socialist Commune, suppressed during Bloody Week with a massacre at Père-Lachaise Cemetery.
- Modern attacks — Paris suffered ISIS-claimed attacks on November 13, 2015, including the Bataclan theater, following the January Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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The ladder · 15 clues
In 1871, government forces reclaimed this city during the “Bloody Week” after it was seized by a namesake commune.
The patron saint of this city is said to have picked up his head after being martyred and walked for 6 miles, That man names a suburb of this city, St. Denis.
In this city, Adolphe Thiers clashed with a namesake commune during an 1871 uprising.
The European Coal and Steel community was established by a treaty in this city, in which an 1856 treaty demilitarised the Black Sea.
Four days after a series of events in this city, a similar event was avoided in Hanover thanks to the findings of a paramedic. After the events in this city, a grey Volkswagen Polo with foreign license plates was recovered which served as evidence that led to a raid on the Molenbeek [moh-lun-bek] area of Brussels.
During a siege of this city, National Guard troops bivouacked in a partially-built opera house designed by Charles Garnier.
The European capital where the treaty ending the war was signed?
City where an 1871 socialist “Commune” was suppressed following its country’s loss to Prussia.
The Bataclan theater was attacked in this city, the site of the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting and a November 13th attack claimed by ISIS.
Its namesake university was founded in 1150 and is sometimes called the Sorbonne.
Baron Hausmann oversaw a set of renovations in this city, which was the site of a massacre at Père- Lachaise [PAIR luh-SHAYS] Cemetery in 1871.
The events in this city occurred despite heightened security following an attack earlier that year in this city at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
In converting to Catholicism, Henry IV claimed that this city was “well worth a mass.” name this capital city, the site of much strife during the French Wars of Religion.
Baron Haussmann led a renovation of this city during which he widened the streets to prevent the construction of barricades.
10 more clues from the record
That attack targeted a stadium where Francois Hollande was watching a sports match. name this city that was targeted in a series of 2015 attacks.
A 1229 student strike at a university in this city began on Shrove Tuesday and ended when Gregory IX issued the bull Parens scientiarum [[PAH-rens see-en-TAH-room]].
Controversy of this city’s placement of 400 bronze cannons in Belleville and other working-class neighborhoods led to riots.
Thousands of prisoners were killed in this city during the September Massacres.
A woman nicknamed the “Red Virgin” of a neighbourhood in this city is credited with the first use of the anarchist black flag.
An “infernal machine” used in this city targeted a king overthrown in February 1848.
The wildcat strike took to the streets in the Latin Quarter of this capital city.
During a siege of this city, two zoo elephants were eaten by a crowd and Leon Gambetta fled in a balloon.
Jules Ferry blasted the 19th-century redesign of this city as “triumphant vulgarity,” while other critics noted that wider streets could be used in this city to more easily maneuver troops to counter uprisings.
A college in this city was the origin of the slogan "Under the paving stones, the beach." A medieval school in this city had four "nations" with a set number of students from Pignerol [[pee-neh-ROHL]] and Flanders.

















































































































































































































