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Neighborhoods, witnesses to history

Walks that uncover the city's past

One of the few European cities to escape World War 3, part of the fascination of Paris is the layers of the past that we can feel interweave. 

We discover sites that are famous or forgotten and explain their importance through accounts, illustrations and stories.

 

 

  • The Right Bank under the kings

•Royal entry site

Overlooked monument

•Royal Way

Rue Saint-Denis

Crossroads, gods and governors

 

 

  • Left Bank contrasts, legacies of the medieval city wall

 

 

 

•The Latin Quarter

  Brains and taverns

 

•Saint-Germain-des-Prés

  Saint-Germain in the fields

 

  • The royal tour, power and calamity – three grandiose"Places" illustrate the fate of monarchy in France

 

 

 

  • Nineteenth-century effervescence

 

 

Drama and refinement

 

 

  • Themes that go beyond a single neighborhood

 

 

 

•Rebel Paris

Insurrections and their impact

 

 

•Wartime Paris

Heroism, compromise and secrets swept under the rug

Eastern Paris, where new worlds emerge

Edith Piaf's Paris, now territory of the avant-garde

 

 

•Additions that enrich these walks (when on the Right Bank)

 

• Our Opéra visit takes history through the end of the 19th century. So do Couture in an unexpected neighborhood and Shopping that only Paris can offer, because of their tie with the Opéra and 19th-century luxury.

 

 

• Costs: please CLICK

 

 

 

Credits: drunk students / illustration from "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo, 1854 edition; peaants in fields / "Les Très Belles Heures du Prince de Condé", Chantilly Museum ; photos / Claude Abron;  witch / cover, "l'Affaire du poison", by J.C. Petitfils; arrest / back cover, "Le Petit Journal, August 10, 1904 (detail); Revolution / "Liberty leading the people", by Delacroix, 1831; Canal Saint-Martin / Catherine Aubin

 

 

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