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This course investigates Paris’s oversized status as a global capital by looking at the events, transformations, cultures, and arts for which the city is known to help us better understand Paris and its place in French and global cultures today. Taught in French.

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Images of the Paris, Las Vegas hotel tower, Eiffel tower, and the Tokyo and Paris, Texas towers.
This course looks at Paris as well as its myths, dreamt of and reconstructed around the world. The four images are Paris, Las Vegas; Paris, France; the Tokyo tower; and Paris, Texas. (Courtesy of Elvin 7 mil. Views on Flickr, License CC BY-NC; Adit Chandra on Flicker, License CC BY-NC; Eugene Flores on Flickr, License CC BY; Joseph Novak on Flicker, License CC BY.)
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