National Geographic Traveler: Paris

by DAVIDSON, LISA

• ISBN13: 9780792274292
• ISBN10: 0792274296
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: National Geographic

Summary

Tour all the beautiful sites Paris has to offer with this practical and portable comprehensive guide. 300 photos. 30 maps.

Table of Contents

How to use this guide	6-7	(1)
About the authors	8	(1)
History & Culture	9-44	(35)
Paris today	10-15	(5)
History of Paris	16-31	(15)
The arts	32-44	(12)
The islands	45-60	(15)
Introduction & map	46-47	(1)
Walk: Around the islands	54-55	(1)
Quartier Latin	61-76	(15)
Introduction & map	62-63	(1)
Feature: Subterranean Paris	72-73	(1)
St.-Germain & Montparnasse	77-90	(13)
Introduction & map	78-79	(1)
Feature: Cemeteries	84-85	(1)
Walk: Through Montparnasse	88-89	(1)
Chatelet & Les Halles	91-102	(11)
Introduction & map	92-93	(1)
Feature: Centre Georges-Pompidou	96-97	(1)
Feature: Markets	100-101	(1)
Le Marais & Bastille	103-120	(17)
Introduction & map	104-105	(1)
Feature: Streets of Paris	108-109	(1)
Feature: Great Parisian love affairs	114-15	(1)
Walk: Around the old Marais	116-18	(2)
The Louvre & Palais-Royal	121-42	(21)
Introduction & map	122-23	(1)
Feature: Bridges and quays of Paris	138-39	(1)
Champs-Elysees	143-52	(9)
Introduction & map	144-45	(1)
Feature: French fashion	148-49	(1)
Les Grands Boulevards	153-62	(9)
Introduction & map	154-55	(1)
Walk: Along Les Grands Boulevards	158-59	(1)
Feature: Nineteenth-century building	160-61	(1)
Tour Eiffel & Les Invalides	163-78	(15)
Introduction & map	164-65	(1)
The 16th arrondissement	179-84	(5)
Introduction & map	180-81	(1)
Montmartre	185-94	(9)
Introduction & map	186-87	(1)
Walk: Through Montmartre	190-91	(1)
Feature: Cabaret	192-93	(1)
In & around the Peripherique	195-210	(15)
Map	196-97	(1)
Introduction	198	(6)
Feature: Parks & gardens of Paris	204-205	(1)
Excursions	211-32	(21)
Introduction & map	212-13	(1)
Chateau de Versailles	214-19	(5)
Cathedrale St.-Denis	220	(1)
Disneyland Paris	221	(1)
Vaux-le-Vicomte & Blandy	222	(1)
Provins	223	(1)
Fontainebleau	224-25	(1)
Rambouillet & around	226	(1)
Auvers-sur-Oise	227	(1)
Chartres Cathedral	228-29	(1)
Giverny	230-31	(1)
Travelwise	233-64	(31)
Planning your trip	234	(1)
How to get to Paris	234	(1)
Getting around	234-36	(2)
Practical advice	236-39	(3)
Emergencies	239	(1)
Hotels & restaurants by area	240-54	(14)
Shopping in Paris	255-58	(3)
Entertainment	259-62	(3)
Language guide	263	(1)
Menu reader	263-64	(1)
Index	265-69	(4)
Credits	270-71	(1)