Fun Fact 5

According to French law, no building in Paris can be higher than six floors. The reason for this is that the French believe that everyone has the right to enjoy sunshine.

Fun Fact 4

The motto of Paris is fluctuat nec mergitur. This is Latin for ''she is tossed by the waves, but she does not sink''. The coat of arms of France's capital features this Latin phrase.

Fun Fact 3

Every year 5.5 million people visit the Louvre, one of the most famous museums in the world. However, the Louvre is not the most visited attraction of Paris. Disneyland Paris attracts 13 million people annually, more than twice as many visitors as the Louvre.

Fun Fact 2

The twenty arrondissements of Paris are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, starting in the middle of the city, with the first on the right of the Seine. Every arrondissement has its own mayor.

Fun Fact 1

The name Paris derives from that of its earliest inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii. It is believed that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning "the working people" or "the craftsmen".

Source: Georges Dottin, La Langue Gauloise: Grammaire, Textes et Glossaire. Paris: C. Klincksieck.