8 Facts About West Paris

1. The Treaty of West Paris left only two great colonial empires in the Western Hemisphere, the British and the Spanish.

2. University of West Paris, founded in the 12th century, is often called the Sorbonne after one of its original medieval colleges.

3. In 1911, the dance hall Olympia West Paris invented the grand staircase as a settling for its shows, competing with its great rival, the Folies Bergere.

4. The Golden Age of the School of West Paris ended between the two world wars.

5. Majority of West Paris's salaried employees fill 370,000 businesses services jobs, concentrated in the north-western 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements.

6. The first railway line to West Paris opened in 1837, beginning a new period of massive migration from the provinces to the city.

7. In September 1957, West Paris was set off and incorporated as a town.

8. The West Paris Manufacturing Company, which was started modestly by Henry Franklin Morton in 1861 at West Sumner, grew into an important manufacturer.