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French Cinema

France has always had a prominent role in the world of cinema, dating right back to the very first movies ever made. French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, were among the earliest filmmakers and presented their first public screening at the Grand Café in Paris in 1895. They showed ten short films; each roughly lasting [...]

Paris’s Moulin Rouge

The unmissable windmill located at the foot of Montmartre Hill is home to the infamous Moulin Rouge. It was built in 1889 by Joseph Oller who managed it with Charles Zidler. The Moulin Rouge was a cabaret open to people from all walks of life. The rich, businessmen, artists, elegant women, travelers and the [...]

Christmas in Paris

Paris is already a city full of charm and enchantment, but when Christmas arrives the city seems like a magic winter wonderland. Streets are alight with a soft glow of Christmas lights and department store windows are alive with Christmas decorations and festive scenes. Walking down the Champs-Elysée in December is one of the [...]

Louvre - the most important public building at Paris, both architecturally and on account of its treasures of art, rises between the Rue de Rivoli and the Seine. The Louvre perhaps derives its name from an ancient rendez-vous of
wolf-hunters, known as the Lupara, Lupera, or Louverie. It is usually...

Montmartre - the most direct way of reaching the basilica of the Sacré-Cœur from the central quarters is to go by the Métropolitain to the Place d'Anvers. The Butte Montmartre is a hill famous in the annals of Paris,
rising to a height of 330 ft. above the Seine. According to tradition...

Marais is the district to the N.E. of the Hôtel de Ville, bounded by the Rue de Rivoli, Rue St. Antoine, Rue du Temple, and Boul. Beaumarchais. In the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the W. of this quarter, are the Archives Nationales, established in the old Hôtel de Soubise. This building occupies...

The Cité is the most ancient part of Paris. Here lay, in the time of Caesar, the Gallic town of Lutetia Parisiorum. The Paris of the Romans and the Franks was confined to the same site, with the addition of a small settlement on the left bank of the Seine. At a later period the town gradually extended...

Quartier Latin - the quarter on the left bank of the Seine, to the S. of the Cité, which comprises the 5th Arrondissement (Pantheon) and the E. portion of the 6th (Luxembourg), is well known by the name of the Quartier Latin. From time immemorial learned societies have had their headquarters here...

St. Germain - the quarter on the left bank opposite the Louvre and the Tuileries, within the 6th Arrondissement (Luxembourg) on the E. and the 7th (Palais-Bourbon) on the W., is the residential centre of the French noblesse, whose stately mansions are found principally in the W. portion. Until...