This guide to Paris offers a complete history of the city and the people who have shaped its destiny, from its earliest settlement as Roman "Lutetia Parisiorum" with a few hundred inhabitants, to the metropolis of 20 centuries later, at the centre of a conurbation with a population exceeding twelve millions. The book includes a chronology of major events in the history of the city, and sections on: Notre Dame and other Paris churches; the parks of Paris; and bridges, cemeteries, museums, the Metro and the suburbs.