The Musée du Quai Branly opened on June 23, 2006. It features non-Western art and artifacts from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, ranging from the Neolithic period to the twentieth-century. Like many other educational institutions, the…

Hotel Lutetia was built by French entrepreneurial family, the Boucicauts. Patriarch, Aristide Boucicaut, was born in Bellême, France, about 100 miles West of Paris, in 1810. He found himself in Paris in 1835, working as an apprentice for a traveling…