A Brief History of ParisParis: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a modern metropolis. Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time. There is a unique fusion of past and present in this purposefully grand and well planned city. The Triumphal Way, which runs straight from the Louvre through the Tuileries Gardens, across the Place de la Concordewhere the guillotine once stoodthrough the Arc de