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  Paris
Paris was preserved from the invasion of Attila through the prayers and activity of St. Genevieve, who prevailed on the Parisians not to abandon their city.
The bishop placed the royal domain under interdict, whereupon the king confiscated the temporalities of the diocese, but the intervention of the pope and of St. Bernard put an end to the difference, and to seal the reconciliation, the king invited the bishop to the coronation of his son, Louis VII.
Maurice de Sully, Bishop of Paris, having accompanied the pope to the ceremony, was invited by the abbot to withdraw, and Alexander III declared in a sermon, afterwards confirmed by a Bull, thenceforth the Church of St-Germain-des-Prés was dependent only on the Roman pontiff, and subsequently conferred on the abbot a number of episcopal prerogatives.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/paris.html   (13582 words)

  
 Archbishop of Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The archbishop of Paris is one of twenty-three archbishops in France.
Its headquarters are at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Diocese of Paris was elevated to the rank of archdiocese on October 20, 1622
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bishop_of_Paris   (139 words)

  
 Paris, city, France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Characteristic of Paris are the tree-lined quays along the Seine (famed, on the left bank, for their open-air bookstalls), the historic bridges that span the Seine, and the vast tree-lined boulevards that replaced the city walls.
Paris and its suburbs together make up the eight departments of the Île-de-France administrative region, which is governed by an elected assembly, chairman, and supervisor and overseen by a prefect appointed by the state.
Paris acquired further glory as the scene of many of France’s greatest cultural achievements: the plays of Molière, Racine, and Corneille; the music of Lully, Rameau, and Gluck; the paintings of Watteau, Fragonard, and Boucher; and the salons where many of the philosophes of the Enlightenment gathered.
www.bartleby.com /65/pa/ParisFr.html   (1977 words)

  
 The City of PARIS
After a revolt of the Parisians (1418), the Burgundians occupied Paris; the Anglo-Burgundian Alliance (1419) was followed by the installation of John Plantagenet, duke of Bedford, as regent of France for the English king Henry VI (1422).
Paris had nearly 600,000 people, and from the Left Bank new suburbs were advancing toward the villages on the surrounding hills.
Although the wall of the farmers-general remained the administrative boundary of Paris until 1859, it was decided in 1840 to refortify the capital with a longer military wall.
www.nenadiricanin.com /Cities/niBioParis.htm   (3669 words)

  
 Paris - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Paris is sometimes called the City of Light in tribute to its intellectual preeminence as well as to its beautiful appearance.
Paris is the center of many major newspapers and periodicals, as well as all the major French radio and television stations.
Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements (districts or boroughs), each of which has a local council and a mayor, but most of the power is held by the mayor of the City of Paris who is chosen by the city's council.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-parisfr.html   (2113 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Germain, Bishop of Paris
As he happened to be in Paris, in 555, when Bishop Eusebius died, Childebert kept him, and with the unanimous consent of the clergy and people he was consecrated to the vacant see.
In his new state the bishop continued to practise the virtues and austerities of his monastic life and laboured hard to diminish the evils caused by the incessant wars and the licence of the nobles.
When he came back to Paris, the king caused a church to be erected in the suburbs in honour of the martyr to receive the relic.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06473a.htm   (669 words)

  
 Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Medieval Paris was dominated by the cathedral of Notre Dame on the Ile de la Cite, the island in the Seine that formed the heart of the city.
The significant impact on the University of Paris was the decree issued by the Pope Gregory IX in 1231 to end the the impasse between the French crown and the masters of Paris.
Statutes of Gregory IX for the University of Paris 1231
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/paris.htm   (2713 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bishop who hid sexual abuse convicted in France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
PARIS (AP) — A bishop was convicted Tuesday of keeping quiet about a priest who sexually abused children, marking the first time in more than 150 years that a high-ranking French clergyman has been found guilty of a crime.
Bishop Pierre Pican, 66, received a three-month suspended sentence for hiding knowledge that a priest in his diocese had raped and molested boys from 1996 to 1998.
Defense lawyers argued the bishop's silence was motivated by respect for "professional secrecy," which gives priests and bishops the right to speak confidentially to one another.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/09/04/france-bishop.htm   (790 words)

  
 St. Germanus
Agrippinus bishop of Autun, he was made abbot of St. Symphorian's in the suburbs of that city, a house since converted into a priory of regular canons.
King Childebert was moved with their devotion, and desiring to speak with the bishop of the city, promised to withdraw his army, on condition he might obtain some portion of the relics of St.
That of Paris was given to Charibert or Aribert, Gontran was king of Orleans and Burgundy, Sigebert of Austrasia, and Chilperic of Soissons.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/GERMANUS.htm   (2110 words)

  
 Statutes of Gregory IX for the University of Paris 1231
Gregory, the bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his beloved sons, all the masters and students of Paris - greeting and apostolic benediction.
Paris, the mother of the sciences, like another Cariath Sepher, a city of letters, shines forth illustrious, great indeed, but concerning herself she causes greater things to be desired, full of favor for teaching and students...
We command, moreover, that the bishop of Paris shall so chastise the excesses of the guilty, that the honor of the students shall be preserved and evil deeds shall not remain unpunished.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/UParis-stats1231.html   (904 words)

  
 Condemnation of 1277 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
On March 7, 1277, the Bishop of Paris, Stephen Tempier, prohibited the teaching of 219 philosophical and theological theses that were being discussed and disputed in the faculty of arts under his jurisdiction.
In addition, it is one of the few censures in which a bishop was involved right from the start, and not, for instance, at a later stage of the proceedings as judge of an appeal.
Evidence of the presence of rationalist tendencies at the University of Paris was found in certain articles of Tempier's syllabus, or in the prefatory letter in which Tempier expounded his notion of double truth.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/condemnation   (3768 words)

  
 The Bishop
A Bishop captures diagonally, either forward or backwards and the range extends on unobstructed cells to the extent of the diagonal line of cells on which the Bishop travels.
The weakness of a Bishop is in the defencelessness of the cells of opposite colour, its main strength in its long-striding ability.
This was seen as a Bishops mitre in Europe and a recognition of the status of the church of the period.
www.chess-poster.com /english/chesmayne/the_bishop.htm   (3397 words)

  
 Paris - free maps, posters and pictures. Art, history, music, museums, architecture, fashion and monuments in France's ...
The Palais Garnier is the thirteenth theatre to house the Paris Opera since it was founded by Louis XIV in 1669.
Paris first saw the light on that ancient island in the Seine, the Cité, which has, in fact, the form of a cradle.
For several centuries Paris remained an island, with two bridges, one north, the other south, and two bridge heads, which were at once its gates and its fortresses: the Grand-Châtelet on the right bank, the Petit-Châtelet on the left.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215
Almeric of Bene was one of the most renowned teachers at Paris at the beginning of the 13th century.
We decide concerning the theologians, that no one shall lecture at Paris before he is thirty-five years old, and not unless he has studied at least eight years, [later prolonged to 14 years] and has heard the books faithfully and in the schools.
No one is to be received at Paris for the important lectures or sermons unless he is of approved character and learning.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/courcon1.html   (1075 words)

  
 Pictures of Notre Dame of Paris in Paris, France
Notre Dame de Paris (French for "Our Lady of Paris", meaning the church in Paris dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus), often known simply as Notre Dame in English, is a gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west.
In 1160, having become the "parish church of the kings of Europe", Bishop Maurice de Sully deemed the building unworthy of its lofty role, and had it demolished shortly after he assumed the title of Bishop of Paris.
Joan of Arc is beatified in 1909 in Notre Dame.
vinc3nt.com /paris/placesofinterest/notredame/index.htm   (1558 words)

  
 Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The University of Paris is founded, boasting scholars like Guillaume de Champeaux and Abélard; the Latin Quarter is born on the Left Bank.
At the height of the Hundred Years' War, Paris is occupied by English forces led by Henry V. Joan of Arc besieges Paris in 1429 but fails to dislodge the English.
The oldest house in Paris still in existence after Philippe-Auguste's time was probably at the end of the 13th century.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/paris1.htm   (3302 words)

  
 Beaubourg - Les Halles , Paris
Despite her exile and banishment from Paris, Marie's palace remained the property of the royal family until the Revolution.
At the very heart of Paris, it is one of the most symbolic places in the city, representative of its spirit and glory.
The end of the 19th century saw Montmartre to be the center of artistic life in Paris and the model of a free, bohemian existence.
www.pariserve.com /area-description/page-index.htm   (2246 words)

  
 THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1215
The house was suppressed by Jean du Bellay, bishop of Paris, on January 25, 1541.
We order, moreover, that the bishop of Paris so punish the excesses do not remain unpunished; but because of delinquents the innocent shall not suffer, nay, if probable suspicion shall arise against anyone, after honorable detention on furnishing suitable bail he shall be dismissed and exactions of the jailers cease.
The official of the court of Paris to all the rectors of churches, masters and scholars residing in the city and suburb of Paris, to whom the present letters may come, greeting in the Lord.
medieval.ucdavis.edu /120B/Paris.html   (6984 words)

  
 Froissart: Paris Rebels against the King
But this he was not desirous of doing; for the king much loved the town of Paris, because he had been born in it, and also from its being the capital of his kingdom: he was therefore unwilling to destroy its well-intentioned inhabitants.
He told them, his reasons for coming to Paris were to endeavor to make up matters between them, and that he would entreat the king and his uncles mercifully to pardon them their evil deeds.
The lord de Coucy returned to Paris, and brought with him the king's pardon to the Parisians, on condition of their observing the propositions they had made.
www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/muhlberger/froissart/parisrev.htm   (807 words)

  
 Golden Legend, vol. 7 | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
We read in the catalogue that is made and written of the succession, and of the number of bishops in Paris, how S. Denis was received by S. Clement, the which S. Denis waited ever for to go thereas he wist the error of the paynims reigned most.
God that guided him brought him to Paris and there he was the first bishop, and there he ordained clerks and officers for to serve the church.
After S. Denis was the ninth bishop S. Marcel, after S. Marcel the ninth was S. Germain, and S. Landry was the ninth bishop after S. Germain and thus it appeareth that he was the twenty-seventh bishop after S. Denis.
www.ccel.org /ccel/voragine/goldleg7.xxviii.html   (237 words)

  
 Germain of Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
496; died in Paris, May 28, 576), was a bishop of Paris, who was canonized in 754.
As he happened to be in Paris, in 555, when Eusebius, bishop of Paris, died, King Childebert detained him and he was consecrated bishop of Paris.
When Childebert came back to Paris, the king caused a church to be erected where he could see it across the fields to receive the relic.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germain_of_Paris   (613 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bowling In Paris: Music: Stephen Bishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Prior to "Bowling In Paris" in 1989, Stephen Bishop hadn't had a bonafide studio album put out since 1980's "Red Cab To Manhattan", unless you count "Sleeping With Girls" which allegedly was released in Asia, albeit in extremely limited quantity.
It seems pretty obvious Bishop was simply aiming for the stars commercially with this album, & left almost any artistic considerations in the dust, especially since on the whole he returned to much more tasteful, often acoustic-laden territory on 1996's "Blue Guitars".
Granted, Bishop admitted in an interview from around this time that he was under a lot of pressure to have some hit singles, which helps to explain why he was writing with Peter Rafelson on the cloying, though admittedly somewhat catchy "Mr.
www.amazon.com /Bowling-Paris-Stephen-Bishop/dp/B0001J0LD6   (1261 words)

  
 Paris Voice October 2001 Closeups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Graciously, we’ve been showered with genuine expressions of sympathy and solidarity from non-American friends, colleagues and neighbors, many of whom we might otherwise have spoken to rarely or with whom the daily cloisson of reserved Parisian behavior remained a barrier.
An American neighbor here in Paris tells me that her family reports of candle vigils in Seattle in front of a local Mosque.
These acts of kindness bring us closer to a consensus: there is an abundance of good will and love in the world, and yet a fear that our country may have been provoked into spoiling the future as we attempt to save it.
www.parisvoice.com /01/oct/html/tips1.cfm   (1067 words)

  
 Gator Travels: Traveling in Europe
The cathedral's construction was started in 1163 by Maurice de Sully the Bishop of Paris.
A cathedral is the principal church of a province or diocese in which the Bishop's throne (Latin cathedra) is placed.
All cathedrals face west towards the setting sun, and the altar is at the east end of the building.
www.gatortravels.com /photos/paris01_photos_1.html   (150 words)

  
 Catholic World News : New Paris archbishop chosen
The selection of a prelate to replace Cardinal Lustiger-- who at 78 is well beyond the ordinary retirement age for a diocesan bishop-- has been the subject of heavy discussion at the Vatican for several months.
In naming a former auxiliary bishop of Paris, and a "spiritual son" of the current cardinal, the Vatican has made a clear choice for continuity in the Church leadership in Paris.
Born in Paris on November 7, 1942, André Vingt-Trois entered the St. Sulpice seminary in 1962, and was ordained to the priesthood in Paris by Cardinal Francois Marty in June 1969.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=35169   (562 words)

  
 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Paris (F)
It was the King Henri IV (crowned 1589) who returned to Paris after havig converted to the Catholic faith in 1572.
The banks of the river Seine, the historic centre of Paris, were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1991 (see also list of other UNESCO heritage sites).
The site chosen for the construction is the butte Montmartre, by tradition the place of martyrdom of St. Denis, the first bishop of Paris.
www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-1029.htm   (458 words)

  
 Parler Paris Newsletter
Montmartre was first a sacred hill from the Roman Temples, whose name comes from the roman words "mount of martyrs" -- "mons martirium" because it was the place of martydom of Saint Denis, the first bishop of Paris (late 3rd century) and his companions.
One of the smallest in France, it covers 1,500 square meters off the Rue des Saules and was planted during the 1930’s, encouraged by the artist Poulbot, in conjunction with the township of Montmartre and even the intervention of the French President, to preserve a small patch of land from encroaching developers.
P.S. Properties here are still very affordable -- 2786 Euro per square meter average (reported by the Chambre de Notaires de Paris for second quarter 2002 - second quarter 2003 as the second lowest in the city) but with an appreciation of 16.1% that same period (the 4th highest in the city).
www.parlerparis.com /issues/pparis30-1-04.html   (945 words)

  
 Paris - Ile de la cite - Notre Dame
The first stone was lain by the bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, in 1163.
The construction and design were done by the best artisans and directed by Jean de Chelles and Pierre de Montreuil, and the church was completed around 1345.
The central nave where churchgoers come to service is surrounded by 29 choirs.
www.pariserve.tm.fr /English/paris/ileCite/Notre-Dame.htm   (370 words)

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