Euronext Paris traces its origins back over 300 years. The exchange was formally established by royal decree in 1724, making it one of the oldest in the worlden.wikipedia.org. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the Paris Bourse was France’s central marketplace for stocks and bonds. It operated via open-outcry trading on the floor of the Palais Brongniart well into the 1980sen.wikipedia.org. By 1986, Paris began shifting to electronic trading, introducing a system called CAC which fully automated quotations by 1989en.wikipedia.org. This early adoption of electronic trading positioned Paris as a modern exchange, ready to integrate with its European peers.
