François-Mitterrand Library
This is the newest and largest of the five public sites of the French National Library. It was one of the “great projects” — which included the Great Arch, the Read More …
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Guided walking tour of Île Saint-Louis
In August 2013 I went on another guided walking tour (in French) that I found listed in the back pages of the now-defunct weekly magazine Pariscope. This was mainly a Read More …
Le Paris de Mitterrand
In the spring of 2019 I was invited to a book-signing in a Paris bookshop, because I had once ordered a book online from the publishing house Editions Alexandrines, so Read More …
A walking tour of Montmartre
At 9:30 on a Sunday morning a group of VirtualTourist members met here at the Café des 2 Moulins at the suggestion of Paul Smith, who used this as the Read More …
Trocadéro
There always seems to be a festive atmosphere up on the roof of the Chaillot Theater, where people from all over the world come to look at the Eiffel Tower. Read More …
Guided walking tour of Montparnasse
The meeting point for this guided walking tour (in French) was the Métro station Notre-Dame des Champs. This is a small station with only one entrance, so there was no Read More …
Mitterrand and the Panthéon
Every time I ride past the Panthéon in Paris I am reminded of a man I met in Berkeley, California when I was living there in 1967. I was working Read More …
Château de la Reine Blanche
Blanche, meaning White, was a popular name for aristocratic ladies in the Middle Ages. There were several queens and princesses named Blanche in various centuries. No one is quite sure Read More …
Léopold-Sédar-Senghor footbridge
This footbridge across the Seine in Paris connects the Garden of the Tuileries on the Right Bank (1st arrondissement) with the Faubourg Saint-Germain on the Left Bank (7th arrondissement), near Read More …