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Paris is the capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region (also known as the "Paris Region"; French: Région parisienne).
An important settlement for more than two millennia, Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centres, and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.
Paris is located in the north-bending arc of the river Seine and includes two islands, the Île Saint-Louis and the larger Île de la Cité, which form the oldest part of the city. Overall, the city is relatively flat, and the lowest elevation is 35 m above sea level. Paris has several prominent hills, of which the highest is Montmartre at 130 m.
Paris, excluding the outlying parks of Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, covers an oval measuring 86.928 km2 (34 sq mi) in area.[citation needed] The city's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 not only gave it its modern form, but created the twenty clockwise-spiralling arrondissements (municipal boroughs). From the 1860 area of 78 km2 the city limits were expanded marginally to 86.9 km2 (34 sq mi) in the 1920s. In 1929 the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes forest parks were officially annexed to the city.
The Bois de Boulogne is a park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.
These "Boulogne Woods" are a remnant of the ancient oak forest of Rouvray, which was first mentioned in 717, in the charter of Compiègne. The lands were given by Childeric II to the powerful Abbey of Saint-Denis, which founded a number of monasteries in the woodlands. Philip Augustus bought back the main part of the forest from the monks of St Denis to create a royal hunting reserve on Crown lands. In 1256, Isabelle de France, sister of Saint-Louis, founded Longchamp.
During
the Hundred Years' War, the forest became the haunt of robbers; in 1416-17 troops
of the Duke of Burgundy burned part of Rouvroy Forest; Under Louis XI, the estate,
now called the Bois de Boulogne, was reforested and two roads were opened through
it.
Inside the Jardin d'Acclimatation After François I built the Château
de Madrid (completed 1526) in the Bois de Boulogne, the woodlands became a site
of festivities, though highwaymen could make the roads that led through it dangerous:
the intrepid voyager Pierre Belon was murdered by thieves in the Bois de Boulogne
in 1564.[2] The hunting park was enclosed by walls under Henri II and Henri III,
with eight gates. Henri IV planted 15000 mulberry trees, with the hope of instigating
a local silk industry. His repudiated wife Marguerite de Valois retired to her
refuge in the Château de la Muette, in the Bois. In November 1783, from
the grounds of the Château de la Muette, Pilâtre de Rozier and the
Marquis d'Arlandes made the first successful manned flight in a hot-air balloon
built by the Montgolfier brothers.
In the Bois the Comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's brother,built the Château de Bagatelle. The site was made into a park by Napoleon III in 1852, and, financed by selling building lots along the north end of the Bois, in Neuilly, it was landscaped under the direction of the Baron Haussmann; in the following years it was informally landscaped with open lawns and woodlands of hornbeam, beech, linden, cedar, chestnut and elm trees and hardy exotic species, like redwoods. Some aspects of the transformations were clearly the result of Louis Napoléon's exile in London: '"we must have a stream here, as in Hyde Park," he observed while driving through the Bois, "to give life to this arid promenade".All the formal allées, with the exceptions of the Allée Reine Marguerite and the Avenue Longchamp were made serpentine: there are thirty-five kilometres of footpaths, eight kilometres of cycle paths and twenty-nine kilometres of riding tracks. The upper and lower lakes, connected by a waterfall, were created; the excavated earth was used to create the Butte Mortemart. Between 1855 and 1858, the Hippodrome de Longchamp was built on the plain of the same name. The Bois de Boulogne was officially annexed by the city of Paris in 1929 and incorporated into the 16th arrondissement. (Like the Bois de Vincennes, it is however generally not counted as part of Paris proper, since it only consists of public land with no population except for custodians.)
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