The first recorded name for the settlement was Lutetia

While the Louvre is the greatest of the classic art museums, newer major Rosetta Stone Arabic museums include the National Museum of Modern Art in the Pompidou Centre, the Orsay Museum of 19th-century art and civilization, and the science museum at La Villette. A specialty of Paris is the staging of large and lavishly mounted exhibitions, usually retrospectives of an individual artist or historical period.The city's musical life, once moribund, became much livelier after the early 1970s, in part because the state provided much-needed funding. The city also renewed its commitment to opera by opening a second opera house, at the Place de la Bastille, in 1989. Major annual festivals emphasizing music and drama include the Music Festival (Fte de la Musique), held in June, and the Autumn Festival (Festival d'Automne), held from mid-September through December.The main publishing houses and bookshops are located in the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain-des-Prs neighbourhoods. The best-known daily newspaper is Le Monde, followed by the daily Le Figaro and Libration. Among the widely read weekly newsmagazines are L'Express and Le Rosetta Stone German Point. All the main French national radio and television networks are centred in Paris; some are owned by the state, and some are privately owned.John Anthony Charles ArdaghHistoryFoundation and medieval growthThe earliest evidence for human habitation in what is now the city of Paris dates from about 7600 BC. By the end of the 3rd century BC, a settlement had been built on the le de la Cit; it was inhabited by a Gallic tribe known as the Parisii. The first recorded name for the settlement was Lutetia (Latin: Midwater-Dwelling). When the Romans arrived, the Parisii were sufficiently organized and wealthy to have their own gold coinage. Julius Caesar wrote in his Commentaries (52 BC) that the inhabitants burned their town rather than surrender it to the Romans. In the 1st century AD Lutetia grew Rosetta Stone Arabic as a Roman town and spread to the left bank of the Seine.

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