Paris and Food Start: Métro Étienne-Marcel TOP 5 Destination points: Rue Etienne-Marcel, rue Montorgueil, rue Montmartre, rue Coquillère

This walk will take you in the area of the city which Walks in Paris was nicknamed “the stomach of Paris” because of the massive food market occupying the entire neighborhood since the medieval times. In the 19th century the famous cast iron and glass covered market halls were built and finally dismantled in 1969 when the wholesale market activity was transferred to the Rungis suburbs. The food related activity still is thriving in Paris and the area though, you can go to stores like E. Dehillerin and A. Simon for the most Art Nouveau amazing and mind blowing collection of pots and pans, knives and slicing and dicing Start: Métro Chardon-Lagache devices, you can see (or maybe even have a meal there) century old restaurants like Destination points: Rue Chardon-Lagache, rue La Fontaine, Pharamond, Au Rocher de Cancale and avenue Mozart, rue Henri Heine l’Escargot with their fabulous decor and you can get the most delicious pastries at This walk will take you zigzagging through the Auteuil neighborhood the pastry shop Stohrer, the oldest where the most interesting Art Nouveau buildings by the architect patisserie in Paris, founded in 1730 by Hector Guimard can be seen. The Art Nouveau style in architecture and King’s Louis XV’s pastry chef, Nicolas in decorative arts was of extremely short duration, spanning across the Stohrer. last couple of years of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. You can see here the single family homes that Guimard built right after finishing his studies when he was in his early 20’s, as well as the famous Castel Béranger which caused a big scandal in Paris and Paris because of his shockingly modern use of different building materials and specifically Marcel Proust the metal beams left exposed. You can also Start: Métro Monceau see the strangely shaped, triangular Hôtel Guimard that the architect built for himself Destination points: Avenue Van Dyck, rue Fortuny, boulevard and his wife, the American Adeline Malesherbes, rue Monceau Oppenheim, and you can see the last apartment building that Guimard built This walk will take you across the part of just before moving to the USA in Paris where Marcel Proust, one of the most 1938. famous and important French writers, lived and found inspiration for his monumental, 7 volume work, “Remembrance of things past”. You can see here the elegant and enchanting parc Monceau where the characters of his novel would stroll and you can see the opulent and ostentatious Paris and Egypt mansions of the wealthy bourgeoisie of the Belle Époque, as well as the picturesque, Start: Métro Sentier fantasy houses of the scandalous demi- Destination points: Rue du Caire, rue de la Bourse, place mondaines of the Second Empire period. du Châtelet, place de la Concorde You can also visit the extravagant Hôtel This walk will show you unexpected buildings, decorative elements Gaillard, a pastiche of the renaissance and monuments inspired by Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign and the chateau from the Loire Valley, now housing la fabulous treasures which he brought to France upon his return. Citéco, the first museum in Paris dedicated to the economy with sections on the stock market, the role You can see the early 19th century Parisian apartment buildings with of banks, economic regulations, a spectacular stunning decor imitating the bas-reliefs found on three thousand year old collection of coins and bank notes from across the temples in Egypt and the fountain decorated with sculptures of sphinxes world and much, much more. which are part of the traditional Egyptian iconography of fantastic creatures half-men, half-lions. You can end your walk on the biggest square in Paris, la place de la Concorde where the real Egyptian monument, the Obelisk, stands in the center. Sculpted in the 13th century BC, during the reign of the pharaoh Ramses II and offered to France by the vice-king of Egypt in 1830 shortly after Jean-François Champollion Paris and Science deciphered the hieroglyphics. Start: Métro Censier-Daubenton Destination points: Rue Mouffetard, rue Pierre Brossolette, rue d’Ulm, rue Pierre et Marie Curie This walk will take you across the gentle slope of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève which has been occupied by universities, dedicated to teaching and scientific discoveries and busy with students, since the early 13th century. The area is still famous for the presence of the most prestigious French universities located, for some of them, in historic monuments and for some, in the most modern buildings. You can see here the original research pavilion where Marie Curie, the only woman in history with 2 Nobel prices, made her most important discoveries, as well as the original laboratory of Louis Pasteur in which he started his vaccinations against rabies, immediately after he developed the technique in 1885.

Overseas Studies You can finish the walk with the visit of the Pantheon 3501 Trousdale Pkwy, THH 341 where the funerary monuments of the greatest [email protected] French scientists can be admired, along those of prominent politicians, artists and thinkers.