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Paris Metro Line 14

Paris Metro Line 14, known as Météor, is a fully automated driverless line of the Paris Métro that opened in 1998 and links Saint-Denis Pleyel to Orly Airport.

Paris Métro rolling stock

Paris Métro rolling stock is the train fleets operated by RATP on the Paris Métro, in steel-wheeled MF and rubber-tyred MP families, with the first MF 19 entering service in 2025.

Paris Motor Show

The Paris Motor Show, or Mondial de l'Auto, is a biennial automobile exhibition in Paris, first held in 1898 and staged at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

Paris Mountain State Park

Paris Mountain State Park is a 1,700-acre South Carolina state park six miles north of Greenville, built by the CCC in the 1930s on former Greenville watershed land with Lake Placid, and listed on the National Register in 1998.

Paris ni Saku Étoile (パリに咲くエトワール)

Paris ni Saku Étoile (パリに咲くエトワール), aka Samurai Ballerina, is a 2026 Japanese original theatrical anime directed by Goro Taniguchi, with character planning by Katsuya Kondo, about Fujiko and Chizuru, two Japanese girls chasing painter and ballet dreams in 1912 Paris.

Paris Opera

The Paris Opera, or Opéra national de Paris, is France's principal opera company, founded in 1669 under Louis XIV and performing at the Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille.

Paris Opera Ballet

Paris Opera Ballet (Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris), the ballet company of the Paris Opera, is the world's oldest national ballet company, founded under Louis XIV, with its famed Nanterre school, a quadrille-to-etoile rank system, and directors including Nureyev.

Paris Opera Ballet School

The Paris Opera Ballet School (École de danse de l'Opéra de Paris) is a ballet school in Nanterre, tracing its founding to a 1713 decree of Louis XIV.

Paris Paloma

Paris Paloma is an English singer-songwriter from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, whose 2023 viral single "labour" led to the albums Cacophony (2024) and The Fatal Flaw (2026) on Nettwerk.

Paris Paris

Paris Paris names two films: a 2026 Belgian drama by Isabelle Tollenaere about three men occupying an evacuated Paris apartment, and an unreleased Tamil remake of Queen starring Kajal Aggarwal, blocked by CBFC cut demands.

Paris Peace Accords

The Paris Peace Accords (Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring the Peace in Vietnam), initialed by Kissinger and Le Duc Tho January 23, 1973 and signed January 27 by four parties, ended direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, provided for POW release and a sixty-day U.S. withdrawal, and collapsed by 1975.

Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

The Paris Peace Conference, also known as the Versailles Peace Conference, was the 1919–1920 diplomatic gathering of Allied victors of World War I that drafted the Treaty of Versailles.

Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

Paris Peace Treaties, 1947: five peace treaties signed in Paris on 10 February 1947 with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland after the 21-nation Paris Peace Conference of 1946; drafted by the Council of Foreign Ministers and in force from 15 September 1947.

Paris Psalter

The Paris Psalter is a tenth-century Byzantine psalter in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, famed for classically styled miniatures and as key evidence of the Macedonian Renaissance.

Paris Review Interviews

The Paris Review interviews are a series of long-form conversations with writers published in The Paris Review since 1953, known collectively as "Writers at Work" and treated as a defining model of the literary interview.

Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG), French football club founded 12 August 1970 from the Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germanois merger; based at the Parc des Princes, QSI-owned since 2011, France's most decorated club with 61 trophies and back-to-back Champions League titles in 2025 and 2026.

Paris Saint-Germain Handball

Paris Saint-Germain Handball, formerly Paris Handball and Asnières Sports (founded 1941), is a QSI-owned French handball club with 13 league titles, 12 consecutive, and six EHF Final4 appearances without a European crown.

Paris sewer system

The Paris sewer system is a network of about 2,600 kilometers of underground conduits that collects and evacuates the wastewater and rainwater of the French capital.

Paris sewers

The Paris sewers are the underground network collecting Paris's wastewater and rainwater in some 2,500 km of galleries, rebuilt by Eugène Belgrand from 1854 and partly open as a museum.

Paris syndrome

Paris syndrome (Syndrome de Paris; パリ症候群, Pari shōkōgun) is a transient culture-shock disorder mainly in Japanese tourists in Paris, with delusions, hallucinations, persecution feelings, and psychosomatic symptoms; coined by Hiroaki Ōta, not in diagnostic manuals.

Paris Themmen

Paris Themmen (born 1959, Boston) is the American former child actor who played Mike Teevee in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), later a Broadway replacement in Mame and The Rothschilds, NYU BFA holder, Walt Disney Imagineer, and Access International founder.

PARIS trial

PARIS (Prospective Aerobic Reconditioning Intervention Study, NCT01113840) was a Wake Forest randomized, attention-controlled, single-blind trial of 16 weeks of supervised exercise in 53 elderly HFpEF patients; peak VO2 rose 2.3 mL/kg/min without vascular improvement. Distinct from the PARIS quinapril restenosis trial.

Paris water supply system

The Paris water supply system delivers drinking water to Paris, operated since 2010 by the public company Eau de Paris, drawing equally on groundwater and the Seine and Marne.

Paris-aligned Benchmark

The Paris-aligned Benchmark (PAB) is an EU climate benchmark category whose portfolios cut carbon intensity 50% below the market and 7% yearly toward the Paris Agreement's 1.5 °C goal.

Paris-Saclay University

Paris-Saclay University (Université Paris-Saclay), French public research university created by 2019 decree, operating since 2020 near Paris; groups faculties, grandes écoles, and CEA, CNRS, Inserm; 13th in Shanghai ranking, first in France.

París-Tombuctú

París-Tombuctú (1999) is Luis García Berlanga's final film, a Spanish comedy starring Michel Piccoli as a Parisian surgeon who flees by bicycle toward Timbuktu and strands in Calabuch, filmed in Peñíscola.

Paris-Trousseau thrombocytopenia

Paris-Trousseau thrombocytopenia (TCPT, OMIM 188025) is a rare autosomal dominant 11q23 deletion disorder with mild bleeding, macrothrombocytopenia, giant platelet alpha-granules, dysmegakaryopoiesis, and FLI1 loss, related to Jacobsen syndrome.

Paris–Harrington theorem

The Paris–Harrington theorem, proved by Jeff Paris and Leo Harrington in 1977, strengthens the finite Ramsey theorem and is true but unprovable in Peano Arithmetic.

Paris–Roubaix

Paris–Roubaix, the "Hell of the North" and "Queen of the Classics", is a Monument one-day cycling race first held 18 April 1896, run about 260 km from Compiègne to Roubaix velodrome over roughly 55 km of cobblestone sectors.

Paris–Roubaix Femmes

Paris–Roubaix Femmes (Paris–Roubaix Femmes Hauts-de-France), women's UCI Women's WorldTour cobbled classic from Denain to the Roubaix velodrome since 2021; first winner Lizzie Deignan, 2026 winner Franziska Koch.