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Walking into history - & neighborhoods

"The past is not dead and gone. In fact, it isn't even gone." - William Faulkner

One of the few European cities to escape the devastation of World War 2, Paris's fascination comes partly from the layers of the past that interweave.

 

 

We appeal to your curiosity and imagination by revealing exceptional sites and explaining their importance. Stories illustrate the great issues, and humanize them.
The 15th-century Latin Quarter, training-ground for priests... and outlaws.

 

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  •  From rampart to rampart - the city's medieval heart

 

•Theme-tour

•Examples & costs

•Royal arches

Entries into the city

 

 

•Royal Way

Rue Saint-Denis

 

        •Crossroads, gods & governors

      Châtelet, City Hall, Île de la Cité

 

 

•Brains & taverns

The Left Bank
  •  City of kings - three great squares connect like beads on a necklace, illustrating the fate

of monarchy in France

 

 

•Rise of an empowered monarchy

Place des Vosges & "Marais"

 

•Challenge & calamity

Palais-Royal, Tuileries, Concorde

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• Complementing these walks: Haute-couture workshops, Silks of kings, most monuments and day trips, excursions to Champagne and, in the evening, "A queen who remained secret "...

 

• Our Opéra visit takes history through the end of the 19th century.

 

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Drunk students / Victor Hugo, "Notre-Dame-de-Paris", ed. 1854

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