These elegant galleries, considered the ancestors of modern shopping arcades, offer visitors the opportunity to step back in time and experience the atmosphere of nineteenth-century Paris.

From Balzac and Zola to Colette and André Breton, generations of authors have found in the French capital the perfect setting for their stories and ideas.

Paris is a city of neighborhoods. Each has its own rhythm, identity, and unique way of telling the story of the French capital.

There are neighborhoods in Paris that are best discovered not through a checklist of landmarks, but through the simple pleasure of wandering.