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The 215 pages that link to Paris, each with the reason it gives.

• NeoplasticismRelated: Mondrian encountered Cubism there and developed increasingly abstract work.

• Serge KoussevitzkyRelated: Koussevitzky lived in Paris after leaving Russia and led the Concerts Koussevitzky there.

• Tabu Ley RochereauRelated: The city's African diaspora and venues helped expand the audiences for Congolese music.

• Catholic League (France)Related: Parisian clergy, officials, and crowds helped the League seize control of the city in 1588.

• Elsa SchiaparelliRelated: She established her couture house in Paris and built her career there.

• Frederick DeliusRelated: Delius settled near Paris, where he composed and encountered contemporary artistic life.

• Henri RousseauRelated: Rousseau lived and painted there, exhibiting in the city’s independent Salon des Indépendants.

• Julio CortázarRelated: Cortázar settled there in 1951; Paris anchors much of Hopscotch.

• Philip I of FranceRelated: Its position within Philip’s core lands helped anchor the dynasty’s authority.

• Prosper MériméeRelated: Mérimée was born and educated in Paris, where he entered elite literary and political circles.

• PsychogeographyRelated: Postwar Paris provided the streets and districts where early Situationist psychogeography took shape.

• Sadegh HedayatRelated: Hedayat spent time in Paris, where he encountered European literature and later died in 1951.

• Salah al-Din al-BitarRelated: Bitar lived in exile in Paris, where he was assassinated.

• Akseli Gallen-KallelaRelated: Gallen-Kallela studied and worked there, encountering contemporary artistic movements.

• Alphonse DaudetRelated: Daudet moved to Paris as a young man and made its society a setting for several novels.

• BoulevardRelated: Its rebuilt street network became a widely imitated example of monumental urban boulevards.

• Carlo GoldoniRelated: Goldoni moved there late in life and wrote for the Comédie-Italienne and the French court.

• Cristóbal BalenciagaRelated: He established his Paris couture house in 1937.

• Isaac AlbénizRelated: Albéniz’s later career there brought him into contact with modern French musical circles.

• James Gordon Bennett Jr.Related: Bennett spent much of his adult life in Paris, where he became a prominent expatriate figure.

• Les Fleurs du malRelated: Its streets, crowds, and transformations supply the collection’s urban world.

• Louis VuittonRelated: The brand began in Paris amid the city’s expanding travel and luxury trades.

• Max BeckmannRelated: A 1903 stay in Paris brought Beckmann into contact with modern French painting.

• Menachem Mendel SchneersonRelated: His prewar years in Paris preceded his flight from Europe and arrival in the United States.

• RouenRelated: The river corridor links Rouen to France’s national capital.

• The Gates of HellRelated: The French state commissioned the portal for a planned decorative arts museum in Paris.

• Alberto GiacomettiRelated: Giacometti lived and worked in Paris for most of his adult life.

• Alejo CarpentierRelated: Carpentier lived in Paris and encountered European artistic movements that informed his early writing.

• Ba JinRelated: Ba Jin’s stay in Paris exposed him to anarchist ideas that influenced his early writing.

• Charles TrenetRelated: Trenet moved into Parisian entertainment circles as his career began to grow.

• David GuettaRelated: Guetta began DJing in Paris clubs before building an international career.

• Édouard-Léon Scott de MartinvilleRelated: Scott worked and developed his sound-recording ideas in Paris.

• Finnegans WakeRelated: Joyce wrote much of the novel in Paris amid an international modernist literary community.

• FlâneurRelated: Its boulevards and arcades became the flâneur’s defining landscape.

• Juan GrisRelated: Gris settled in Paris in 1906 and developed his career there.

• Loie FullerRelated: Fuller found a lasting artistic home and influential audience in Paris.

• Michel ButorRelated: Butor was born and educated in Paris before beginning an international teaching career.

• Nancy MitfordRelated: Mitford settled in Paris after the war, where French society became central to her later life and writing.

• Nellie MelbaRelated: Melba trained in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi before her major operatic engagements.

• NeustriaRelated: Its position near Neustria’s eastern border made control of the city strategically consequential.

• The Two FridasRelated: Kahlo presented the painting in Paris in 1939 during her first solo exhibition there.

• VangelisRelated: After leaving Greece amid the 1967 military coup, Vangelis settled in Paris and formed Aphrodite’s Child.

• Abolhassan BanisadrRelated: Banisadr lived in Paris in exile and became part of the opposition around Khomeini.

• Adah Isaacs MenkenRelated: Menken spent her final years in Paris among expatriate literary and artistic circles.

• Amrita Sher-GilRelated: Sher-Gil studied and worked there before returning to India.

• Anaïs NinRelated: Nin lived in Paris in the 1930s and entered its modernist literary circles.

• Augusta SavageRelated: Savage pursued further sculpture training there after winning fellowship support.

• Breyten BreytenbachRelated: He settled there in exile after opposing apartheid and married a French woman.

• Ernesto SábatoRelated: Sábato’s time in Paris brought him into contact with intellectual currents beyond Argentina.

• Eugène SchuellerRelated: Schueller founded his hair-dye business in Paris.