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Siege of Paris
Takes a fleet up the Seine & besieges Paris
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Paris in Denmark. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Takes a fleet up the Seine & besieges Paris
Siefried & Sinric land 40,000 Vikings Champ de Mars & lay siege to Paris for 11 months
Siefried & Sinric land 40,000 Vikings Champ de Mars & lay siege to Paris for 11 months
Begins the siege of Paris
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Provenance
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