The Parisii - Before Paris Was Paris

Part One of the History of Paris

Transcript:

Picture the Seine. Not the Seine you know today - no stone bridges, no grand boulevards, no Eiffel Tower piercing the sky. Go back further. Much further. To a time before Paris was Paris, before the very word “Paris” existed.

It’s the third century before the Common Era. The river flows through dense forests of oak and beech. Mist rises from the water at dawn. And on the banks, in clearings carved from the wilderness, a people are building their world. They call themselves the Parisii.

This is their story.

Welcome to the Chicano In Paris Podcast, I’m [Host Name], and today we begin our journey on the history of Paris. Over the course of the next several episodes, we’re going to explore every chapter of this city’s extraordinary journey - from Celtic hillfort to Roman city, from medieval capital to modern metropolis. But every story has to start somewhere. And ours begins with a people who lived, loved, fought, and died along these riverbanks more than two thousand years ago.

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