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Paris by Night 78

episode of Paris by Night

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7137234 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paris By Night 78: Đường Xưa (The Path of the Past) is a Paris By Night program produced by Thúy Nga that was filmed at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre Studio #40 in Toronto, Canada on June 11, 2005. The MC's were Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên. Seats are limited to a studio audience and is considered a private event.

Concept

Following the tradition of honoring famous Vietnamese composers, the program features songs from the three composers: Quốc Dũng, Châu Kỳ, and Tùng Giang.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Paris by Night 78” as episode of Paris by Night. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Paris, Night and episode can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Paris by Night 78” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.