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Historical Evolution: From Paris Bourse to Euronext Paris 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 world en.wikipedia.org. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the Paris Bourse (as it was known) 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 1980s en.wikipedia.org. By 1986, Paris began shifting to electronic trading, introducing a system called CAC (Continuous Assisted Trading) which fully automated quotations by 1989 en.wikipedia.org. This early