Who knows that Paris is built with the same limestone you find in the Gizeth's plateau pyramids. This stone comes from underground, the basement is a huge network galleries of hundred kilometres long called catacombs ?
The Louvre is the largest museum in the world but before it was a royal palace ; Louis XIV spend many years in the heart of Paris before the construction of Versailles.
And Notre-Dame cathedral which has burned on April 15, 2019 is an actual book of stones with hidden stories.
So many place and details in the streets can reveal the past history, you can spend some days to visit the capital of France without visiting a museum.
Let's come to "breathe " Paris like one of its inhabitants said many years B.C. (Before Covid) : Victor Hugo ( read in french more posts about Paris https://eauterrefeuair.wordpress.com/?s=paris )