Paris is a major center of popular culture.
 Paris was central to the development of Romanticism in art, with painters such as Gricault
During the 19th century, Paris was the home and subject for some of France's greatest writers, including Charles Baudelaire, Stphane Mallarm, Mrime, Alfred de Musset, Marcel Proust, mile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Honor de Balzac

