The town square in front of the Gare de l’Est, a railway station in the 10th arrondissement, is busy with crowds of people. The Gare de l’Est was completed in 1849 and was called the Strasbourg Platform until 1854.

The Bois de Boulogne is one of Paris’s largest public parks running along the edge of the 16th arrondissement. A staple of the park is the large lake in the center, as seen here, which was given to the city of Paris by the Emperor Napoleon III in 1852.

Construction workers stand with slabs of concrete in front of the Paris Opera House as its being built. After 15 years of construction, the landmark building was completed in 1875 and is still in use today as one of Paris’s premier venues.

Taxi drivers crowd the bridges on the Seine as they strike beneath the Eiffel Tower against a newly passed regulation that favors larger companies over individual drivers.

A Parisian woman enjoys a nice sunny day in the Parc de Bagatelle.

Friends drink coffee as they sit on the terrace of a café. Parisian cafés have long served as the cornerstone of the city’s social and cultural identity since the 17th century.

Founded in 1889, the Moulin Rouge nightclub hosts cabaret and burlesque performances and was Paris’s first electrically operated building. After a devastating fire in 1915 burnt almost the entire structure down, the popular club reopened in 1921.

An aerial view of Paris shows the city’s circular arrondissement system, as well as a view of the Eiffel Tower.

The platforms at the Gare du Nord train station are flush with people as they depart from one of Paris’s six train stations.

A group of tourists look out at the Champs Élysées from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. The arc was erected in 1836 at the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle, which is the junction of 12 different avenues.

A group of classically trained ballerinas take to the barre for Swan Lake rehearsals at the Grand Opera de Paris.

A woman sells flowers from a cart on the streets of Paris.

A local walks down a long stretch of one of the Parisian Arcades by Rue Rivoli.

Rita Hayworth and her daughter, Rebecca, take a stroll through the streets of Paris on a visit in 1950.

A woman, fit for the runway, catches the eyes of onlookers as she crosses the Rue De La Paix.

Paris’s Hôtel de Ville, located in the 4th arrondissement, has been used as the city’s political administrative building, or City Hall, since its completion in 1628. The current building was rebuilt in a Neo-renaissance style in 1892 after it burned during the Paris Commune of 1871.

French writer, Francoise Sagan, poses against a flyer-filled wall on the streets of Paris in 1955.