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Movies in Paris: discover the role Paris plays in cinema

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Jacqueline Dubois
May 01, 2014
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Did you know that the very first film screening was held in Paris on 28 December 1895, at 14 Boulevard des Capucines?

This address marked the location of Salon Indien – basement room of the Grand Café, which is where Hôtel Scribe now stands. The Lumière brothers were the co-conspirators behind this event, after they invented the cinematograph that same y…

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