Our good old capital of Paris is named after the Gallic tribe of the Parisii (a Parisius, Parisii). The word Paris is actually the transformation over time, Latin Civitas Parisiorum (City Parisii), a designation that has prevailed over Lutetia (Lutèce). <span>In 52 BC. BC, when Labienus, lieutenant of Julius Caesar, took Paris, she was called Lutetia (later translated into French by Lutèce) by the Romans. As the capital of Gaul was then vested in Lugdunum (Lyon). </span><span>Paris took its current name in the fourth century and Clovis, and Merovingian king of the Franks, settled there to make it his capital in 508, after his victory over the Romans. </span><span>Kings gradually settled in the capital of Paris from Louis VI (1108-1137), and more of Philippe Auguste (1179-1223). The court there fixing Paris soon became the capital of the kingdom definitively. </span><span>Napoleon, after long </span>hesitation<span> between Paris and Lyon (Lyon, capital of the Gauls against Paris and its "mob"), decided to establish the capital of his empire, not without reluctance. It is the capital of Europe, to Rome, the second city of the Empire, and Amsterdam third.</span>
