Nevertheless, the French held out until the Allies occupied Paris in April 1814.

Leon had gathered the papers from his own files and from the Joyce apartment after the Germans occupied Paris in 1940.

Russian Cossacks camped at the Élysée when they occupied Paris in 1814.

In the winter of 1941, soon after the Germans had occupied Paris, Picasso while ill spent three days writing a play.

They had expected to control the island within a few days; after all, they only needed to occupy Paris for a week before France surrendered.

As the Germans occupied Paris, Pétain was asked to form a new government.

Since its founding in 1882, the museum has closed its doors just once - on the day the Germans occupied Paris.

After the Germans occupied Paris in 1939, it was used as a prison camp for Jews.

Then the Germans occupied Paris, severing that city's influence.