In 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

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On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.

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It was only in 1951 that the European Union began to take shape through the Treaty of Paris and the European Steel and Coal Community.

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Iraq's widely publicized flouting of the Geneva Protocol led, a few months later-in January 1989-to the convening in Paris of a large international conference to do something to uphold the old treaty.

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