Historical clue formulations

• "Les Misérables" setting — 2025-12-01
• 2024 Olympics host — 2025-01-29
• Apt setting for a French kiss — 2024-08-21
• 2024 Olympics site — 2024-02-22
• Métro area? — 2023-05-07
• Setting for "La Bohème" — 2022-01-08
• 2024 Olympics host — 2022-01-02
• Climate agreement city — 2020-01-01
• Home of Chanel and Cartier — 2019-10-23
• Locale for much of "The Da Vinci Code" — 2017-10-20
• "The Phantom of the Opera" city — 2017-09-26
• 2015 climate accord city — 2017-06-19
• World capital whose motto is "Fluctuat nec mergitur" (Latin for "It is tossed but does not sink") — 2017-04-06
• "Do not deny to him that you love me" speaker, in literature — 2015-08-08
• Setting for much of "Inglourious Basterds" — 2014-11-06
• "Ninotchka" setting — 2014-09-26
• Setting for Henry James's "The American" — 2013-11-03
• See 77-Down — 2013-07-14
• "Midnight in ___" (2011 Woody Allen film) — 2012-05-01
• Trojan War figure — 2011-11-20
• "We'll always have ___" (line from "Casablanca") — 2011-11-02
• City of Light — 2008-10-21
• Setting for "La Traviata" — 2007-11-08
• Popular place for 18-Down — 2007-09-18
• Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic destination — 2007-01-01
• Oenone's husband, in myth — 2006-08-20
• Romeo's rival — 2006-08-17
• Setting for an "Eloise" book — 2005-06-12
• Plaster of ___ — 2003-12-15
• Where some 119-Across go — 2003-05-25
• Helen's abductor — 2003-04-01
• Rue de Rivoli city — 2002-06-26
• Eiffel Tower's home — 2002-05-27
• Where Ilsa met Rick — 2002-01-18
• Achilles' killer — 2002-01-05
• Home of L'Express — 2000-08-09
• Notre Dame's city — 2000-06-13
• Where the Seine flows — 2000-05-09
• He left Oenone for Helen — 2000-04-09
• Arc de Triomphe locale — 2000-04-03
• Romeo's rival — 1999-11-07
• City where "Phantom of the Opera" is set — 1999-08-02
• It was liberated in August 1944 — 1999-03-02
• Capital on the Seine — 1999-02-22
• Seine city — 1998-11-05
• Where the Eiffel Tower is — 1997-04-28
• Golden apple bestower — 1996-12-25
• Brother of Cassandra — 1996-12-21
• Capital on the Seine — 1996-05-20
• Abductor of Helen — 1996-02-11