Paris1972-Versailles2003

One of my favorite past times in Paris is to walk its streets and passed wonderful architecture and history of the City and France love it !! There is soo much to see in the City will take me a lifetime and more, but working on it one bit at a time, These were posts in my black and whiter series, no pictures, I am taken the best of it with new text and links for you and me, Therefore, let me tell you about some of my favorites arrondissements/districts of Paris !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

I like to tell you in a general sense the spots that needs more coverage even without a picture me think, One of the nice things to see here as in all of Paris is to walk. Let’s start with the 16éme arrondissement, You will see beautiful mansions and very expensive, such as the Villa Mulhouse with Villas Dietz-Monin, Villa Emile Meyer and Villa Cheysson, Located between rue Parent de Rossan and rue Claude Lorrain, you entered by 84 and 86 rue Boileau, metro line 9 Exelmans. Around the above you can see the hameau or hamlet Boileau, Villa Molitor,and Villa de la Réunion respectively at 38 rue Boileau, 7 rue Molitor, and 29 rue Chardon-Lagache, Nearest metro Chardon-Lagache line 10 and Michel-Ange Molitor,line 9 and 10, All in a pocket and guarded but you can see by the grille door.

See the nice Church de tous les Saints de la Terre Russe or of all the saints of mother Russia, 19 rue Claude-Lorrain, metro Exelmans line 9. Done in bricks with an armature kokochnik but is not related to the patriarch of Moscow or Constantinople and depend of the Russian church outside the frontiers, near you see another Russian church, the Church de l’Apparition de la Vierge, or apparition of the Virgin, at 87 Bd Exelmans, again not far the White Russians have a church at 39 rue François Gérard that houses a Russian Catholic of the Byzantine rite.

You have heard of Héctor Guimard ? He was born in Lyon in 1867 and is the French reference of Art Nouveau. The most famous are the entrances to the metro that he designed from 1899 to 1904, They were 380 in all buildings, now last count were 66. He has in the 16éme arrondissement the following buildings (well not all just my favorites ok) Hôtel Mezzara 60 rue La Fontaine, Hôtel Jassedé, 41 rue Chardon-Lagache, Villa Flore, 120 avenue Mozart, Hôtel Guimard, 122 avenue Mozart, and Hôtel Delfau, 1 rue Molitor. The term Art Nouveau comes from the Hambourg native Samuel Bing that open an art gallery in Paris in 1895 and called it Art Nouveau. It then spread out big time, It gave a new way of thinking and living in rupture with the then current model, The discovery of erotism and sexuality never thought of until then. The liberation of the working world and the liberation of women and the church. He had its golden age between the end of the 19C and 1914.

You can see the ideal modern city at rue Mallet-Stevens, metro Ranelagh line 9, built by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1926, It sits around five mansions, At no 12 hôtel de l’Agence ; no 10 House shop of sculpteurs Joël and Jean Martell , no 8 mansion of pianist Mme Reifenberg, no 7 house of Daniel Dreyfus, and no 3 / 5 house of Mme Allatini at the end you found the house of the guardian, All houses have white plain cubes with towers and terraces, Near here see the wonderful Villa La Roche, 8 et10 square Docteur Blanche that can be visited ! It is the HQ of the Fondation Le Corbusier. You will marvel of beautiful architeture to walk into Auteuil neighborhood, Other than the above mansions, see Henri Sauvage at 65 rue La Fontaine, Ginsberg a 42 Avenue de Versailles, brothers Perret, 25bis rue Franklin and 51-55 rue Raynouard where the brothers lived,

See musée du vin at Rue des Eaux corner of 5 square Charles Dickens, opened in 1984, Here in the subterranean galleries of the 16C and 17C the brothers of convent of Minimes de Passy already produced white wine, chase out by the French revolution the galleries were abandoned, Nice little museum visited and tastings available. Worth the visit me think, The official musée du vin : https://www.lemparis.com/en/le-mus%C3%A9e

You see the Obelisk de Benjamin Franklin ,66 rue Raynouard corner of rue Singer. This is where Franklin installed the first lighting rod in France. In the gardens of the former Hôtel de Valentinois that he stayed while his visits to Paris that he installed this instrument, in 1756. The Collége (middle school) Saint Louis Gonzague is popularly known as Franklin and a bit further in the rue Franklin corner of avenue Paul Doumer you see his statue.

The Paris tourist office on the 16éme arrondissement de Paris:  https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/a-la-decouverte-du-16e-arrondissement-de-paris-a830

Moving into the 1er arrondissement you have the unique wonderful Louvre is not in line with the Champs Elysées and the Grande Arche de la Défense going to Cergy-Pontoise, The Louvre parallel to the Seine river is away from the center of the axis, To have a perfect straight line, you need to be by the pyramide by the statue of Louis XIV as he was the initiator of this axis.
There are royal monograms hidden in the cour carrée du Louvre, Just go one evening by the fountain of the cour Carrée where on each wing of the cours you see written the initials of the monarchs that helped construct the Louvre. On the side of the pyramide left of the pavillon de l’Horloge you see Henri II with an H H cross by a double C for the queen Catherine de Médicis, We can easily confuse with the D of Diane de Poitiers ,his mistress, On the side of the Seine right side you see the K for Charles IX, H for Henri III, HDB for Henri de Bourbon, Henri IV or HG for Henri IV and Gabrielle d’Estrées, his mistress, On the Pavillon de l’Horloge on its right you see the L and LA for Louis XIII and his wife Anne of Austria, In the other wings built by Louis XIV you can read LMT for Louis and Marie Theresa the queen, and LB for Louis de Bourbon. Outside the cour Carrée you can find these monograms on the facades. On the floor of the cour Carrée you can see the grilles in a rounded design marking the limits of the donjon of Charles V ; and the visit to the Sully wing will allow you to discover the base of the donjon and salle des Maquettes (model room) open on weekends retracing the different stages of the construction of the Louvre.

By the Place Colette, you see the library museum of the Comédie Française, that allows you to see the private parts of this institution. By the entrance Talma immortalise by David d’Angers welcome visitors that takes you on a staircase to the administrative offices where the busts of Moliére, Corneille, and Racine are located. Here you can see the sofa that Moliére rented from his sick uncle and where he died in 1673 while playing Argan. As a commemoration, the Salle Richelieu built between 1786 and 1790 is commonly call the Maison de Moliére (house), By here you see the metro station Palais-Royal (lines 1 and 7) known as the kiosque des Noctambules or night owls kiosk, it is done with glass pearls of Murano in an aluminum structure following a tradition of Héctor Guimard and his Art Nouveau metro entrances.

The Standard Meter of 13 Place Vendôme to the left of the justice minister building allow the French to become familiar with this measure on the French revolution, Also, on the corner of my memorable street rue de Castiglione (my worked street) and the Place Vendôme , there is a plaque that reminds us of the Embassy of Texas opened in Paris in the 19C, Texas gained its independance from Mexico in 1836 and was independant until 1845 when it was annexed to the United States, The balconies in the Place Vendôme are an hommage to Louis XIV, With an allegory of the Sun with golden leaves reminding us of him, The square was called the Place des Conquêtes or Place Louis-le-Grand always in honor of Louis XIV, It had an equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the center opening in 1699 that was destroyed during the French revolution.

The Musée du Barreau de Paris, Hôtel de la Porte, 25 rue du Jour ; it has a collection showing the evolution of justice (as museum of lawyers) from the 17C, There is a plaque at 11 rue de la Ferronnerie showing the spot of the assassination of Henri IV in 1610 by Ravaillac. And finally, see the elephant at 3 rue de la Cossonnerie with the head of an elephant in its facade of origin islamic-indian,

The Paris tourist office on Paris Centre (arrond 1-4) of Paris : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-the-centre-of-paris-a846

And I bring you the 14éme arrondissement of Paris ,You have here several corners of great beauty done by Le Corbusier  and Auguste Perret that are worth the walk, Some of these are at 29 rue Boulard you need permission of the owners but here Gauguin started painting when he was a simple bank employee in the shop of his friend Emile Schuttneckar, At 14bis rue Mouton -Duvernet with an elegant passage garden and elegant canopies. The Villa Hallé at no 36 a nice impasse that is private but served as the spot for the film« Le bon Plaisir » with Catherine Deneuve. The Square Montouris the house at the end was built by Le Corbusier which is actually a street one of the prettiest in Paris, At 6 rue George Braque , Perret built a house that lived the painterBraque , Villa Saurat at 7bis house built by Perret for the sculptor Chana Orloff, Soutine and Henri Miller also lived here. See also the Villa Alésia 111 rue d’Alésia and 39bis rue des Plantes, The Villa du Parc Montsouris at rue du parc montsouris and impasse Nansouty, And Villa Jamot 105 and 107 rue Didot, house closed and private but if someone comes out ask gently to see the beautiful paved impasse.

See the Musée Sainte Anne Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne pavillon L 2nd fl (3rd fl US) 1 rue Cabanis, It shows the hospital life of the Sainte Anne hospital from the first patient admis in May 1867, Collection of instruments tables and portraits and knives to cut the brain presented in a wooden box ! The Musée Singer-Polignac , same as above, open only on heritage days, it present the work of mental patients especially those done for over 50 years on the shop of therapeutic arts, a therapy on artistic mediation,

The Paris tourist office on the 14éme arrondissement de Paris : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-paris-s-14th-arrondissement-a836

Bringing you to more popular areas, this is the 8éme arrondissement of Paris, You can see the facade of 40 Cours Albert 1er a construction by Lalique done in 1911 as home and workshop of the master glass maker Lalique, The door is made of glass sculpted with the branches of trees ! By 3 rue Royale you see the Musée Pierre Cardin by the double doors of the restaurant, The Maxim’s of Pierre Cardin. Built in 1758 and renovated in 1899 on the same Art Nouveau style ,nice place to visit. By 1 Rue Royale you can see a panel telling you of the general mobilisation of August 2 1914 for the WWI, By here at 25 rue Royale, passage de la Madeleine village Royal a plaque mention the home of Alphonse Allais across at 24 rue Royale.

You can admire the facade of the building on 30 Avenue Marceau done by André Granet son in law of Gustave Eiffel, Building in the Art Nouveau style with facade sculpted in branches and pine cone, On the other side 34 avenue Wagram you see the Hôtel Elysées Céramic Art Nouveau style built in 1904 covered with sandstone of Bigot, Today is a 3 star hotel.

You can admire the borne or terminals limit of 4 Rue de Laborde, that were the frontiers of Paris in the 18C, There is a panel there describing the nature of the bornes, They were done for control of the population and supply of goods and marking the limit of which Parisian could build,It was very little respected ! A total of 294 bornes were fixed in the walls of Paris in the 18C,

In another the neighborhood of Europe just behind the gare Saint Lazare was name after many cities in Europe, However, after the Great War or WWI, some were changed. The rue de Berlin was now the rue de Liége, and the rue de Hambourg changed to the rue de Bucarest, After WWII, the avenue de Tokyo in the 16éme was changed to avenue de New York as well, At least the Palais de Tokyo still there,,,,

On this arrondissement/district, Republican France keeps lots of reminders of its Royal past, You have a rue Clovis, Ruelle Charlemagne, Henri IV has a lycée or high school, boulevard, quay, passarelle , and port ! Louis Philippe has a bridge, and Louis XIII has an indirect street as the rue Dauphine that he was until 1607,Also the Rue Louis le Grand and high school of same name in reference to Louis XIV,The rue François I , Cours de la Reine for Marie de Médicis , rue Sainte Anne in reference to Anne of Austria and rue Thérése for the queen Maria Teresa, In others, you have the Rue du Berry, rue de Provence, Rue Monsieur, rue Madame, rue Mademoiselle, rue d’Artois, rue Monsieur le Prince, rue Mazarin, rue Richelieu, and rue Colbert, And as above the Chapelle Expiatoire is on the square Louis XVI !, but also rue Tronchet, rue de Séze , boulevard Malesherbes for the defenders of Louis XVI.

The Paris tourist office on the 8éme arrondissement de Paris : https://parisjetaime.com/article/decouverte-8e-arrondissement-paris-a826

And finally, but not least bring you to the popular 9éme arrondissement of Paris, You can go inside the Société Générale bank at 29 boulevard Haussmann founded in 1864 this bank has 7 buildings typical of the Second Empire that they acquired in 1904. The building were renovated in 1912 with basement for the safes. The main room has a cupola of 24 meters in diameter, Just be discreet as it is a working place.

You can see the vineyards of the firefighers at 22-28 rue Blanche , The Chasselas grapes around their building provides a white wine that is bottled under Château Blanche since 1926, The rue Blanche has its origins in the quarries of Montmartre very near, The plaster recovered from here was taken by boats on the Seine to be mounted on bigger boats elsewhere,

On the Square Orléans that you enter by the 80 rue Taibout you see the high place of the New Athens romantic era, Here are build 46 apartments and 5 shops of artists, It house the ballerina Marie Taglioni, the musician Marmontel and the couple of George Sand (house in first floor no 5) and Chopin (at aprt no 9),

Even if private, you can see throught the grille the wonderful Avenue Fronchot, nearest Metro Pigalle, Created in 1830 with beautiful mansions of the 19C, A varied architecture from Neo Gothic, Flamand, medieval, palladian, or neo antique that attraced many famous such as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas,father, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Victor Massé, More recent you had Django Reinhardt and François Truffaut with a sequence of his film « Les Quatre Cents Coups », The house at no 1 has a mysterious history as the director of the Folie Bergére buys it and bequested to his cleaning lady that was brutally assassinated in it ; inhabitable for more than 30 years, the house is purchase by Sylvie Vartan that leaves quickly after moving in ! The art critic Mathieu Galev who purchase it died in it oh well see it but do no live in it !

How about the Cité Malesherbes access by 59 rue des Martyrs, the attorney Malesherbes guillotine in 1794 was the owner, Some interesting building especially the no 11 with nice decoration in ceramics ,lava and terracotta work of architect Jal on the account of painter Jollivet, At No 17, the rotonde of the Hôtel of Architecture Amoudru, and the balcony with as ornamentation a female mask and medallion, Follow this up at 41-47 rue des Martyrs with the garden, not seen from the street but plenty of roses, great for a pause.

At 10 rue Lallier see the private collection of the phonogallery store, guided visit in groups only,A collection of talking machines ! Going back to 1877 It is a museum boutique and the store located between the cabarets of Montmartre and the artists of the New Athens. Around here, see the Le Hibou at 68 rue Condorcet an owl sculpture on the facade celebrating the architect Viollet le Duc as he ordered built this building in 1862-63, and place the owl on the window of his shop, See, also, the unique Cité Napoléon by 58 rue Rochechouart , not seen from the street , is a good example of the familistery done in 1853,It was to house modest families with a free doctor visits in exchange for keeping high morals as an inspector will visit to verify the morality of the inhabitants, The Familistery is an utopian socialist model of Charles Fourier applicable in his theory of phalanstery or community living and it welcome only families,

Perpendicular to the rue Richer, and rue Bleue and created in 1840 you have theCité de Trévise, with nice buildings of neo Renaissance style surrounding a square with three cariatides that gives hand forming a pretty fountain, Further south at 19-20 rue Bergére you have the office of the bankBNP Paribas, long house the national discount counter with a staircase in cages with the market room and its pretty glass worth a look, The facade has three scuptures of Millet such as Prudence, Commerce, and Finance

The Paris tourist office on the 9éme arrondissement de Paris : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/explore-paris-s-9th-arrondissement-a828

There you go folks, now you should know what is proper Paris and all the rest is not in Paris ! This post will help you find your location and be daring Paris has a lot to offer not on the popular travel guides, walk it ! Again, hope you enjoy this post on some of my favorites arrondissements/districts of Paris !!! as I,

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!