Fact: Paris is the European capital that saw the greatest number of foreign armies marching through its streets.
There's not a single major european country that did not conquer Paris at some point.
No foreign army controlled Paris between 1435 and 1814 though?
Surely some Eastern European city had it worse? Warsaw maybe?
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 9:48:28 AM
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>>17773461
>>17773298
>No foreign army controlled Paris between 1435 and 1814 though?
There absolutely was.
>Warsaw
I don't think so. Poland before the 18th century was not so much inclined to be #raped
>>17773298
It fell to the king of Navarre in that period lmao
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:42:30 AM
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>>17773461
>>17773339
Henry IV was French, it does not count. Besides he did not even conquer Paris, the city surrendered itself after his conversion to Catholicism.
>>17773288 (OP)
I count 6, England, Spain, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Germany.
I'm sure there are other capitals with higher numbers, Bruxelles for instance.
Paris was conquered in 885, 1420, 1814, 1815, 1871, 1940. That's 6 times, of which 2 very close to each other.
Warsaw changed hands more often than that, between Swedes, Russians, French and German, although in a couple of cases (1806, 1915) this involved capturing a city that was a Russian-controlled regional capital, not the centre of an independent Polish state
>>17773461
>After repeated failures to take the capital of Paris, Henry IV converted to Catholicism in 1593, reportedly declaring that "Paris is well worth a mass".
Read your own links, rart
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:09:28 PM
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>>17773509
>>17773466
>>17773475
>>17773476
You're retarded lads. 1590 was the Spanish troops entering Paris.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:17:57 PM
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>>17773466
>>17773475
>>17773476
>>17773488
But on a related note the navarrese did sack Paris in 1358 and occupied the city for several months from June to August
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A8ge_de_Paris_(1358)
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:29:50 PM
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>>17773534
I can't read OP's mind, but I'm fairly sure that an army that is half foreign half local troops isn't quite the same as completely foreign troops, per the pic he posted
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:31:35 PM
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>>17773531
If said locals work for the foreign power it definitely is.
Or by that logic Caesar didn't conquer Gauls because he had auxiliaries.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 2:53:27 PM
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according to ai
52BC - Roman conquest
486 - Frankish conquest
(those 2 don't really count)
845 - (Brief) Viking occupation
885 - Viking occupation
1358 - Navarrese occupation
1420 - English occupation
1590 - Spanish occupation
1814 - Russian, Prussian and Austrian occupation
1815 - British, Prussian and Austrian occupation
1871 - Prussian occupation
1940 - German occupation
So that's a grand total of 9 occupation
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 9:37:34 PM
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>>17775210
It's obviously Belgrade and it isn't close. Anyway this is a bait thread and OP is a faggot.
