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Paris' British midfielder David Beckham celebrates after Paris Saint-Germain won the French L1 title on May 12, 2013 at the Gerland stadium in Lyon, France.
Charles Platiau / REUTERS
Francois Hollande holds a glass of wine at the 49th Paris International Farm Show at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris February 28, 2012.
Christian Hartmann / Reuters
Paris St Germain's David Beckham reacts during their Champions League quarter-final first leg soccer match against Barcelona at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris, April 2, 2013.
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Paris Saint-Germain's forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic gives a press conference at the Parc-des-Princes stadium in Paris on April 1, 2013.
Paris, 1963.
Paris, 1963.
Paris street scene, 1963.
Paris street scene, 1963.
Paris street scene, 1963.
Paris street scene, 1963.
Children, Paris, 1963.
Children, Paris, 1963.
Children, Paris, 1963.
Children, Paris, 1963.
Little girl, Paris, 1963.
Little girl, Paris, 1963.
Ballerinas at the Paris Opera, 1963.
Ballerinas at the Paris Opera, 1963.
Children at play, Paris, 1963.
Children at play, Paris, 1963.
Director Tony Scott poses during a photocall to promote his lastest film "The Taking of Pelham 123" in Paris July 20, 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE ENTERTAINMENT)
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Caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "In Paris to be photographed by Vogue, in a jaguar suit she designed herself, Barbra Streisand watches Chanel spring collection opening in stony silence. At far right are [actress and model] Elsa Martinelli and Marlene Dietrich."
Michel Euler, AP, File
In this May, 17, 2012 file photo, French President Francois Hollande, second right, and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, center, pose with women of the cabinet after the first weekly cabinet meeting, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has asked the French equality ministry to set up a series of 45 minute workshops, where politicians are given examples of sexism in daily life and with the aid of slide-shows taught how to avoid sexist stereotypes in political communication.
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"LIFE re-opened its Paris bureau after the second World War ended, in the same offices we rented before the war" Morse recalls. "One day we get a message from New York about some cave that people have been talking about. We do a little research, and find out that even though the cave was discovered a few years before, no one's ever photographed the paintings. In fact, hardly anyone has ever been down there, except some guys who climb around in caves for fun. We know that the first thing we need is a generator to power our lights, but getting a generator anywhere after the war was almost impossible. We had to have people in London ship one over. Once it arrived, we were ready to go." Above: A never-published Ralph Morse photo of photography gear arriving prior to the descent into the cave at Lascaux.
Caption from LIFE. “In Paris hospital, where he awaited a plane for U.S., Lott is carried to ward by German army medical corps prisoners.”
Caption from LIFE. "In Paris hospital, where he awaited a plane for U.S., Lott is carried to ward by German army medical corps prisoners."
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves a Paris courthouse after attending a hearing regarding his seizure request of the new book by Argentinian-born Marcela Iacub detailing their liaison, Feb. 26, 2013.
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"All the civilized world loves France and Paris. Americans share this love with a special intimacy born in the kinship of our revolutions, our ideas and our alliances in two great wars." — LIFE on the relationship between the U.S. and its longtime European ally.
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"Paris is like a magic sword in a fairy tale— a shining power in those hands to which it rightly belongs, in other hands tinsel and lead. Whenever the City of Light changes hands, Western Civilization shifts its political balance. So it has been for seven centuries; so it was in 1940; so it was last week." — LIFE after the French capital was liberated in August 1944.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Private boxes beneath the balcony at the Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
Not originally published in LIFE. Private boxes beneath the balcony at the Grand Guignol, Paris, 1947.
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Riots in Paris in 2006. The French Government wants to avoid a repeat
Jerome Delay / AP
Paris, France: Police prepare to take away the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, died in on August 31, 1997. The crash also killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the chauffeur.
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Paris Saint-Germain football club's newly recruited Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (C), poses with his new jersey next to the football club's chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi (L) and Brazilian sporting director Leonardo during a press conference as part of Ibrahimovic's official presentation at the Parc des Princes on July 18, 2012 in Paris.
Alessandra Tarantino / AP
A cleaner sweeps the entrance of the Cafe de Paris in Rome's Via Veneto on July 22, 2009. Italian authorities seized some $284 million in assets of the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, including this cafe of La Dolce Vita movie fame
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
A customer looks in the doll section for a gift in the Village of Paris JoueClub toy shop during the holiday season in Paris November 30, 2011.
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not published in original story. merlin caption: Director Gene Kelly rehearsing for the Paris Opera.
Thomas Dworzak / Magnum for TIME
A Sarkozy campaign poster reflected in a Paris window. The Gaullist drew support from young and old voters to win the presidency.
Pascal Le Segretain / Getty
Men smoke cigarettes in the street in Paris, January 31, 2007. France has introduced a smoking ban in public places.
Christophe Ena / AP
The 17th century Hotel Lambert, which belongs to the Emir of Qatar, on the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris. The Emir plans a multimillion-dollar renovation which has been approved by French Culture Minister Christine Albanel
Toshihiko Sato, File / AP
Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off on July 25, 2000, with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground.
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HISTORY: Thousands marched through Paris in 1999 to protest giving legal status to unmarried partners. Tens of thousands of couples — gay and heterosexual — subsequently registered their unions.
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Unpublished. Dior fashion show, Paris, 1948.
Mark Kauffman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Dior fashion show, Paris, 1948.
Mark Kauffman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Dior fashion show, Paris, 1948.
Mark Kauffman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Dior fashion show, Paris, 1948.
Mark Kauffman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Dior fashion show, Paris, 1948.
Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
People cool off in a fine mist of water as "Paris Plages" (Paris Beach) opens along the banks of the River Seine in Paris July 20, 2010.
Marine photo / Sgt. Pete Thibodeau
A soldier pets Paris, a military working dog, during a security patrol in Khak-E-Safed, Farah province, Oct. 30.
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Unpublished. A young man watches liberation celebrations from atop a Parisian light pole, Paris, August 1944.
Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Thousands of Parisians — and untold numbers of refugees from other countries, trapped in Paris since the Germans captured the capital in 1940 — pour into the streets on August 25, 1944.
AP
Liz Claiborne waves, in this Aug. 30, 1949 file photo, as she arrives at Penn Station in New York en route to Paris for a ten-day trip after winning the Harper's Bazaar Design contest. Claiborne died Tuesday, June 26, 2007.
Benoit Tessier / Reuters
People enjoy the sun as "Paris Plages" (Paris Beaches) opens along the banks of River Seine in Paris July 21, 2008.
Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jean-Paul Sartre at his home in Paris in 1946. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but famously declined to accept it.
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People watch clothes left on the ground after a demonstration by Algerian protesters against the curfew for French Muslims ordered by the Paris chief of police Maurice Papon in Paris on Oct. 17 1961, during the Algerian Independence War.
Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Designer Christian Dior in his Paris salon, 1948.
Original caption for this photograph, from the March 1, 1948, issue of LIFE: “Paris seamstresses mobbed their boss, Dior, on St. Catherine’s Day (Nov 23), the traditional spinsters holiday. Dior is rich, kind and unmarried.”
Original caption for this photograph, from the March 1, 1948, issue of LIFE: "Paris seamstresses mobbed their boss, Dior, on St. Catherine's Day (Nov 23), the traditional spinsters holiday. Dior is rich, kind and unmarried."
Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
French writer Albert Camus smokes a cigarette on the balcony outside his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard's office in Paris, 1955. Camus won the Nobel in 1957; in 1960, when he was 46 years old, he was killed in a car crash along with Gallimard, who was driving.
Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A "Free French" soldier races to aid a Resistance fighter firing at a German sniper, Paris, August 1944. The sniper had opened fire during a tour of the city by Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
Former French President Jacques Chirac leaves his office in Paris, March 7, 2011, a few hours before the start of his corruption trial in Paris, which will be the first time a former head of state has been called on to appear before the courts in France.
Thibault Camus—AP
Protesting cost-cutting measures at Paris' Place de la Bastille.
Eric Ryan / Getty Images
Chef Alain Ducasse poses at the Season Market held at the Hotel Paris Plaza Athenee on April 13, 2010 in Paris, France.
Pierre Andrieu / AP
The famed Lascaux cave drawings in southwest France. Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened in Paris Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 for a conference on how to stop the spread of fungus stains
Jacques Brinon / AP
French Labor Minister Eric Woerth presents his pension reform plan in Paris, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 in Paris.
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In Paris, Tour d'Argent head chef Laurent Delarbre, left, and head pastry cook Guillaume Caron prepare a honey dessert on Sept. 24, 2010
Reuters
Protesters set the Tricolor alight in Qingdao. Anti-French feelings have run high since the Olympic-torch relay in Paris was interrupted by pro-Tibet activists.
Loic Venance / AFP / Getty Images
This picture taken in Paris shows a MP3 music file being downloaded through a peer to peer website
Mark J. Terrill / AP
Paris Jackson is supported by family members after speaking about her father during the memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009
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Les halles forum in Paris on October 4, 2010.
Bob Edme / AP
People leave Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport through a special door for family and friends, awaiting news on Air France Flight 447, which went missing over the Atlantic on June 1, 2009
Meigneux / Chamussy / SIPA
Paris Mayor, Bertrand Delanoe is cheered by supporters as he passes in the second round municipal elections.
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Paris Hilton arrives at the Los Angeles Municipal Court Metropolitan branch.
Mal Langsdon / Reuters
Paris commuters cycle to work during a continuing transport strike against pension reforms
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From left: Paris Jackson, Katherine Jackson, Prince Michael Jackson II and Prince Michael Jackson at the Michael Jackson's memorial service in Los Angeles on July 7
Andrew Gombert / EPA
Paris Hilton is released from jail.
Kyle Christy / CNN / AP
Paris Hilton on "Larry King Live", June 27, 2007
Kevork Djansezian / AP
Paris Hilton walks out of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., June 26, 2007.
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Paris Hilton
Chris Pizzello / Reuters
Paris Hilton is driven from her West Hollywood, California home in a Los Angeles County Sheriff's car, June 8, 2007.
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Demonstrators in Paris protest against the extradition of former Red Brigades member, Marina Petrella in June.
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Montmartre, Paris, France.
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Ballot Inspector Rita Paris helps voters as they enter the voting booth at the Parker Varney School polling location on Election Day, January 8, 2008, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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(l.to r.): Chris Moore / Catwalking / Getty; Judith White / Bloomberg / Landov
Models from the Paris Spring/Summer 2008 collections of Giambattista Valli (left) and Stella McCartney
(l.to r.): Karl Prouse / Catwalking / Getty; Firstview
Models from the Paris Spring/Summer 2008 collections of Christian Lacroix (left) and Dries Van Noten
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM/AFP PHOTO
"Paris Society," 1931, by Max Beckmann
Claude Paris / AP
Striking transport workers in Paris voted to return to work.
© Frank Horvat, Courtesy Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
'Paris' (1974) by Frank Horvat, from Elton John's collection
PAUL COOPER FOR TIME
Diners in Paris' Galeries Lafayette
MICHEL SPINGLER/AP
Thousands in Paris protested against anti-Semitism
DANILO SCHIAVELA/AFP-GETTY NEWS
Iranian militants in Paris immolated themselves to protest arrests
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A lesbian couple kisses each other on the Bastille square, in Paris, on Dec. 16, 2012 during a demonstration for the legalisation of gay marriage and LGBT parenting.
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Tourists take pictures in the district of Montmartre in Paris, on May 20, 2013.
Thibault Camus / AP
Police officers stand guard in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
Francois Mori / AP
Canadian singer Justin Bieber performing during a concert at Bercy arena in Paris on March 19, 2013.
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The soda water fountain in Paris
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