(FRANCE) Paris

Paris is history, first. The great, the small too. Paris, where we took the Bastille, where we prefer to die standing, wall Federated than live on your knees. Paris, the city of Baron Haussmann, the capital of "progress" of the Universal Exhibition, the Eiffel Tower and Metropolitan. Paris workers, a June 1936 Paris And fear, betrayal, the raids. And then again, Paris is a celebration. Paris swings. Paris on jazz. And the merry month of May in Paris: Sorbonne occupied, barricades, general strike. Paris surprised. Paris sings. "It's 5:00, Paris wakes up ..."

All these images have fueled the myth. But he had already coated spectacular trappings: Notre-Dame, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Invalides, Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe, the Opera, the Sacred Heart in Montmartre. ..
Accumulations of strata, Paris is a city sometimes Gallo-Roman sometimes medieval, classical, "Napoleon III", modern or resolutely contemporary, and all these neighborhoods that emerge; this city has so much to offer ...

Paris is making great strides. Bourgeois, west, and popular, to the east, the capital remains "bohemian bourgeois" in his heart. Paris is also - above all? - The city of those who inhabit the cross, work, study there, out there. The animate, in a word.

And "share", what better than a good old Parisian bistro? Can still be found between two tables open to the rest of the world, or more in the air.

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