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Birthplace of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, Paris is the capital of France and its largest city. It was settled by a Gaulish tribe, the Parisii, over 2,000 years ago.
In the 18th century, pre-revolutionary Paris was a metropolis of vast extremes in terms of wealth and poverty.
Plomb du Cantal - Credit:
Bnavez
Plomb du Cantal is the highest peak of the Cantal mountain range, which is largely made up of eroded volcano peaks. Plomb du Cantal is itself 6,000 feet high. This is where Grenouille retreats for seven years in a fit of misanthropy.
Grasse - Credit:
Christophe Jacquet
Grasse is a French Riviera town and international capital of perfume. The industry has thrived there since the 18th century, when the novel is set. It is also the birthplace of Édith Piaf and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Rue Saint-Honore and plaques - Credit:
PHGCOM
The Rue Saint-Honoré is an ancient Parisian street, named for a church that once occupied the site within the cloisters of Saint-Honoré.
Hotel-Dieu, Paris 2007 - Credit:
David Monniaux
The Hôtel-Dieu is the oldest hospital in Paris. It was founded circa 651 on the Île de la Cité. Until the Renaissance, it was the only hospital in the city. having survived centuries of tumult, revolution and several fires, it remains in operation today.
Les Halles is an area of central Paris, for many years the site of a huge market.
les Halles today - Credit:
Aaron Ferguson
Structures were first erected there for merchants in 1183. In the 1850s, a glass and iron structure was built to house the stall holders selling their wares. It was for a time known as 'the belly of Paris'. In 1971 the market was replaced with an open-air shopping centre.
Red rocks of Esterel - Credit:
Jddmano
Huguenots were known as French Calvinists from the 16th to 18th centuries. Since then, they have been commonly known as French Protestants. By the close of the 17th century, around 200,000 of them had been driven from Catholic France in religious persecution drives.
The Esterel Massif is a mountain range in Provence, south-east France. The terrain is characterised by red, volcanic rock, ravines and vast oak forests.
Pont Royal, toward Left Bank - Credit:
Lazulilasher
The Pont-Royal is the third oldest bridge in Paris.
Versailles 1772
Versailles is a vast, ornate royal chateau. Expansion of the royal hunting lodge there began in 1661 at the behest of Louis XIV when Versailles was a country village; it is now an outer suburb of Paris. It was the centre of political power in France between 1682 and 1789, the eve of the Revolution.
Montpellier is a southern French town, made capital of the Bas Languedoc region by Louis XIV. After the Revolution, it was demoted to captital of the much smaller Hérault department.
Marseille (once Massalia) is France's largest commercial port and the oldest city in France. After Paris, it is the second most populous city in the country.
Lyon is located in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region. It is the French capital of gastronomy and birthplace of the cinematic pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière.
Vence is a commune town set in the hills of the Alps-Maritimes department. Vence has famous springs, a medieval walled village and a chapel featuring a Chagall mosaic, dating from 1911.
Tanneron is a commune in the Var Department. The surrounding area is vertiginous, and before roads were built into the hillsides it was treacherous.
Chateau de la Napoule - Credit:
Sebastien Bertrand
Mandelieu-la-Napoule is an Alpes-Maritimes commune famous for its 14th-century fortress, Chateâu de la Napoule.