These pages are intended to give a year by year look at Paris from 1860 - 1899. These were the years that Paris was rebuilt as the beautiful city we know today, the years it was restructured to support a growing middle class and the years the Impressionists flourished. Entries are a combination of art, some simple chronologies (factoids one might say) and some discussion, on occasion, of events. The emphasis is on culture and technology rather than political events. The pages are minimally numismatic, in spite of being linked to a numismatic site.

Coin images are courtesy of CGB and many, but not all the art images, are from Mark Harden's Artchive. The two main chronologies used are Almanach des Francais (AF) and Chronologie de l'Histoire de France (CHF). There is often a one year inconsistency in dates between the two annals, and I have generally used the first appearance of an event.
 
 

1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833

1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900