Capital of France

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The capital of France is Paris, but the capital's location has sometime changed.

List of capitals of France

  • Paris[1]
  • Orléans (1108)[2]
  • Troyes (1419–1425)
  • Paris (1425–1682)
  • Versailles (1682–1715)[3]
  • Paris (1715–1722)
  • Versailles (1722–1789)
  • Paris (1789–1871)
  • Versailles (1871–1879)[4]
  • Paris (1879–1940)
  • Bordeaux (September 1914)
  • Tours (10–13 June 1940)
  • Bordeaux (June 1940)
  • Vichy (1940-1944)
  • Paris (1944-present)

References

  1. Mackay, Alexander. (1876). Manual of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, and Political, p. 202.
  2. Annandale, Charles et al. (1902). XX Century Cyclopædia, Vol. 6, p. 229.
  3. Goodman, Dena. (1996). The Republic of Letters, p. 24; excerpt, "Even as Louis XIV moved the capital of France to Versailles, Paris was becoming the capital of a new Republic of Letters...."
  4. Alden, Henry Mills. (1872). Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 223; Smith, Benjamin Eli. (1918). The Century Cyclopedia of Names, Vol. 6, p. 1034.