In XVII and XVIIIth Century the capital cities of absolutist sovereignities are consolidated. After Industrial Revolution, the countrymen migration and political disturbance, at the end of the XVIII and beggining of XIXth Century some of these cities, specially London and Paris, raise to a metropolis condition. This article attempts to show how in Paris _ the most cosmopolitan city at that time _ new behaviors, fashions, manners and even new gestures emerge. The text also names the representations which in litterature and human sciences are elaborated on this new way of life on which certain avant-gardists from the beggining of this Century glimpse the germination of a new sensibility.
metropolis; urbanism