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This oasis of calm off the boulevard Saint-Germain hasn’t always been so refined and urbane. Jeffrey T Iverson discovers the...
This was once the gateway to Paris’s most notorious slum, then part of its textile industry. Now it is a...
While the Marais continues to develop and its ever-rising rents become increasingly unaffordable, Jeffrey T Iverson slips onto a street...
It is, and always has been, one of the most popular covered arcades in the French capital. Jeffrey T Iverson...
Hidden away in western Paris, rue Poncelet is home to one of the capital’s best open-air markets. Jeffrey T Iverson...
Back in 1929, Édith Piaf was still known as Édith Giovanna Gassion. Then 14 years old, the future chanteuse spent...
For more than a century, one of the main arteries feeding the heart of the French capital was a train...
The rue Vieille du Temple is an ancient street in the Marais. Jeffrey T Iverson meets some of the local...
Every year, more than seven million people flock to the Palace of Versailles to behold the jaw-dropping luxury in which the French monarchy once resided....
Travel-writing guru Rick Steves called Rue Cler “my favourite street in Paris,” enthusing, “Rue Cler, lined with shops that spill out into the...