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Guide Tour of the Montmartre district, Paris, France

Montmartre is a district of the 18th arrondissement of Paris dominated by the Sacré-Coeur basilica. Montmartre is primarily known for its artistic history, the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur on its summit, and as a nightclub district. Since the 19th century, it has hosted many artists such as Picasso or…

Guide Tour of the Montmartre district, Paris, France

Guide Tour of the Montparnasse district, Paris, France

Montparnasse district famous for the artistic effervescence that took place there during the Roaring Twenties. This vibrant, authentic neighborhood, once flocked with artists and writers, retains many reminders of its bohemian past. On the Left Bank of the river Seine, it boasts cultural sights, foodie streets with iconic bistros and…

Guide Tour of the Montparnasse district, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Musée National Picasso, Paris, France

The Picasso Museum is the French national museum dedicated to the life and work of Pablo Picasso and the artists who were linked to him. The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art (paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints, engravings and notebooks) and tens of thousands of archived pieces…

Guide Tour of Musée National Picasso, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris, France

The Saint James’s Tower is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the intersection of Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie (“Saint James of the butchers”), which…

Guide Tour of Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, France

Maison de Victor Hugo is a writer’s house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832–1848. The museum consists of an antechamber leading through the Chinese living room and medieval style dining room to Victor Hugo’s bedroom. Victor Hugo’s House also manage Hauteville House, Guernsey (Channel Islands).…

Guide Tour of Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, France

Napoleon at Fontainebleau, Château de Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France

Fontainebleau experienced a particularly sumptuous period under the First Empire (1804-1815), during Napoleon I’s visits (1804, 1807, 1809, 1810), which were full of political and family events, the Emperor’s deep attachment to the palace was confirmed. A new lease of life given to the palace, which had been stripped of…

Napoleon at Fontainebleau, Château de Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris was a vast public works program commissioned by Emperor Napoléon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. It included the demolition of medieval neighborhoods that were deemed overcrowded and unhealthy by officials at the time; the building of…

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris

Guide Tour of Curie Museum, Paris, France

The Musée Curie is a historical museum focusing on radiological research. It is located in the heart of the “Campus Curie” in the Val-de-Grâce district of the 5th arrondissement, at 1, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Made up of an exhibition space permanent and an archive centre, it…

Guide Tour of Curie Museum, Paris, France

Napoleon at Versailles, Review of 200th anniversary commemorate of Napoleon’s death, Versailles, France

As part of a commemorative event of 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s death, The Palace of Versailles relive the event “Napoleon at Versailles”. Experience the glorious times of the Empire et meet one of the most important figures in French history. The French President Emmanuel Macron affirmed Napoleon’s contribution. Napoleon, a…

Napoleon at Versailles, Review of 200th anniversary commemorate of Napoleon’s death, Versailles, France

Guide Tour of Panthéon, Paris, France

The Panthéon is a monument in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. It was conceived by Louis XV as a grand neo-classical church honouring St. Geneviève, the…

Guide Tour of Panthéon, Paris, France

Guide Tour of National Eugene-Delacroix Museum, Paris, France

The Musée national Eugène Delacroix is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix. At this dedicated museum you can explore the great French painter’s life, his artwork, and his studio. On display are many of Delacroix’s early works including small oil paintings, pastels, and sketches. Delacroix (1798 – 1863)…

Guide Tour of National Eugene-Delacroix Museum, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France

Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. St-Germain-des-Prés, the 6th Arrondissement of Paris, is best known for the literary and artistic celebrities who lived and worked here in the late 19th and…

Guide Tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Rodin Museum, Paris, France

The Rodin Museum is a museum ensuring since 1919 the conservation and dissemination of the work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin’s old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine.…

Guide Tour of Rodin Museum, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Les Invalides, Paris, France

Les Invalides (formally the Hôtel national des Invalides) is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans. This immense architectural complex, designed by…

Guide Tour of Les Invalides, Paris, France

Guide Tour of the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, France

The Musée Jacquemart-André is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (1833–1894) and Nélie Jacquemart (1841–1912) to display the art they collected during their lives. Owned by the Institut de France, it…

Guide Tour of the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, France

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