The film shows what Paris was like approximately a decade before the motor car arrived on its streets. We see many famous points of interest like bridges across the river Seine, The Opera, Place de la Concorde, the Dome des Invalides with the monumental grave of Napolean, the Sacre Coeur, the Notre Dame and much more.
00:00 Paris, Hotel de Ville (townhall)
00:09 Pantheon with its splendid dome
00:19 Madeleine church
00:34 Basilica of the Sacre Coeur at Mont Martre
00:44 Bridge over the river Seine, Pont-Neuf, the oldest bridge of Paris built in 1578
01:01 Conciergerie, former prison but now law courts
01:10 Road and metro bridge (line 6) over the river Seine: Pont de Passy
01:31 Old Trocadero building (demolished in the 1930s), seen through the Eifel tower
01:43 The Eifel tower, seen from Trocadero
01:56 Pont Alexandre III, leading to the Grand and the Petit Palais
02:05 An early "bateau mouche" passing under the bridge
02:10 Lion statue on the bridge
02:21 View of the Petit Palais, seen from the perspective of the Grand Palais
02:33 Visitors leaving Les Invalides
02:46 Dome des Invalides
02:56 Napoleons grave inside the Dome des Invalides
03:00 Portrait of Napoleon
03:15 Arc de Triomph, seen from the Champs Elisées
03:22 Place de la Concorde
03:35 Fountains near the Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde
03:46 Madeleine church
04:03 Opera Garnier, built in 1875
04:12 Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle
04:31 Jardin du Luxembourg, The building seen is the Senate
04:46 Famous fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg
04:58 Fountain at the Avenue de l'Observatoire, at the very South end of the Jardin du Luxembourg
05:12 The Louvre museum
05:27 Also the Louvre museum, near where the new piramid now is located.
05:35 Jardin du Luxembourg (?)
05:38 Arc de Triomphe du Caroussel, in the Louvre
05:50 The Arch, close up
06:00 Monument à Léon Gambetta, seen at the Tuilleries
06:06 It was destroyed, and the remaining parts were relocated in the 20th district
06:13 Park at Parc des Buttes Chaumont
06:25 Same park from a different angle
06:41 Still Parc des Buttes Chaumont
06:53 Parc Monceau
07:11 Parc Monceau from a different angle
07:27 The Notre Dame
07:38 Ditto, seen from the river Seine
07:49 Statues on top of the Notre Dame
07:57 Ditto, close up
08:01 Barges on the river Seine with Notre Dame in the distance
08:17 The End.
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