Paris 4th borough - Pipes of Beaubourg

Put in the heart of one of the oldest districts of Paris, the Centre Pompidou, usually called Beaubourg, immodest poster its intestines of color. The sight of its blue and red pipes in the bend of the alleys of the ancient "stomach of Paris" is absolutly amazing.

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Paris - 3rd borough - Chapon Street

The Chapon street is one of older streets of Paris because we find the track from 1292 under the name of Capon street, then of cock street, before taking its definitive name, curious evolution because the origin of its name comes, not from the animal, but from the patronymic of one of its inhabitants... As for the door which closes "le Passage de l'Ancre", if it is of guingois, it is a very attractive guingois...

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Paris - 2nd borough - Hôtel du Nord

"Le Sentier", less tourist than "le Marais", remains a very picturesque district. Industrious, it shelters a multitude of small clothing workshops and its streets are permanently crossed by small deliverers engaged in the day, when it is not for the running, who make permanently the shuttle between workshops and main shops. To shelter and distract this cosmopolitan crowd, hotels and ladies are divided streets and impasses.

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Paris - 1st borough - The Louvre and the Pyramid

Object of controversy during its construction, the Louvre pyramid, a glass and steel monument, today achieve unanimity as it is naturally in the prestigious Cour Napoléon. Its architect Ieoh Ming Pei, has succeeded a fairly rare prodigy integration.


© gérard Laurent