The ultimate guide to Paris for those who don’t like to do things everyone else does. Highly confidential gastronomic addresses, hidden gardens and cafés, astonishing secret passages and much more. All the inspiration you need to explore the city is right here…
“Paris is a party,” wrote Hemingway! In the City of Light, we’re given a thousand opportunities to celebrate life and friendship over a drink or a meal. Night owls, trendy Parisians, and epicureans—disco...
When walking along Rue Daumesnil and past its buildings, it’s hard to imagine that trains ran here for over a century. In place of the René Dumont Green Corridor, however, a railroad line was indeed in se...
Have you ever heard of Victor Lustig? In 1925, the con artist managed to convince a Parisian scrap metal dealer that he had just purchased the Eiffel Tower—and its roughly 7,300 metric tons of iron. Of co...
With its metal footbridges, locks, and banks that come alive at the first rays of sunlight, the Canal Saint-Martin has that certain something that makes Paris so charming. Its cinematic atmosphere immedia...
Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Molière… Père-Lachaise is now one of the most visited sites in Paris, with nearly 3 million visitors a year. Yet when the cemetery opened its gates in 1804,...
Sometimes you have to stray from the most-traveled paths of Père-Lachaise to stumble upon the strangest stories. In the 44th division, an imposing stone dolmen catches the eye. At its base, flowers. Lots...
Night falls on Paris. Somewhere near Aubervilliers, a room now bears a number that might send a shiver down the spines of even the most daring: not 666, but 807. Behind its door, the traditional hotel bed...
Alone amid imposing belt-driven machines, Clémence shapes, polishes, and repairs. In this workshop, frozen in time since 1890, she keeps the capital’s very last crystal workshop alive. Behind the white-...
For nearly a decade, Karl Lagerfeld lived in one of the most unique apartments on the Left Bank. Located at 17 Quai Voltaire, overlooking the Seine, the Tuileries Garden, and the Louvre, this 260-square-m...
Hidden in Parisian sidewalks, courtyards, and gardens, small bronze medallions bear only the name “Arago,” accompanied by the letters N and S. Yet they mark neither a former address nor a vanished monumen...