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Rome gave berth the name of city and put it on the world map. Julius Caesar’s armies arrived here in 52 BC, they found a Celtic settlement confined to an island in the Seine - the Île de la Cité. Under the rule of Lutetia, it was the Roman colony for the next three hundred years, prosperous commercially because of its commanding position on the Seine trade route, but insignificant politically. The Romans established their administrative centre on the Île de la Cité, and their town on the Left Bank on the slopes of the Montagne Ste-Geneviève. Aound the 275 AD, the Roman rule were disintegrated by the invasion of Germanic, and Paris held out until it fell to Clovis the Frank in 486, whose conversion to Christianity hastened the Christianization of the whole country. Under his successors, Paris saw the foundation of several rich and influential monasteries, especially on the Left Bank. With the election of King Hugues Capet in 987, fate of the city was inextricably identified with that of the Monarchy. The rebellion was open with the recurrent political tension between the classes and crown in 1356, when Étienne Marcel, a wealthy cloth merchant, demanded greater autonomy for the city. Further rebellions, fuelled by the hopeless poverty of the lower classes, led to the king and court abandoning the capital in 1418, not to return for more than a hundred years.

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