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Paris
Visit - Part 2
(8th-20th
arr included)
Paris
through the Ages (by Arthur Gillette)
Michel
Dansell formulated this very well in his "Paris Unattended."
"To
love Paris is not explainable with a guidebook that leads you through
the city. To say: "Paris je t'aime" doesn't mean anything,
since all reasons are good — and none is frankly the issue! To love
Paris, it's more than you can explain, it's in yourself! There is the
Paris of the ice-cream-eaters, organized tours, history professors,
and those damn guide publishers always keen to explain the slightest
column or gargoyle, the smallest portal, the straight boulevards of
Haussman, the age of Notre-Dame, and a whole lot you'll find in any
guide...
I
will try to explain Paris differently; I'll take you by the hand and
tell you some anecdotes between the historical and descriptive sites.
I'll enhance it from time to time by pictures—as long as they don't
take up too much space ;-).
Paris
dining and hotel world!
Paris
main flea markets
New,
naughty, and terrible anecdotes
Paris
through the Ages (by Arthur Gillette)
The metro entranceways of Guimard
Life
and work of Hector Guimard
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