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Things To Do: BEFORE you DO ANYTHING.......
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GET a "PARIS CITY PASSPORT" !!!
New from the bureau is the "PASSEPORT PARIS" city pass which, for 5 euros, gives you an entrée and a discount to 59 different sponsors' services. These can be obtained at any of the city's welcome stations. For more information, visit the website I've given below."The Paris City Passport" has something for everyone: museums, attractions, excursions, shopping and evenings out…
It gives you the opportunity to discover a total of nearly 100 sites selected by the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau while enabling you to benefit from their special offers: discounts from -10% to -50% in the main.
Designed as a handy booklet, it consists of a guide to all the included venues, a map of Paris to check their locations and a set of discount coupons.
Your Paris City Passport can be used by more than one person and is valid until 31 December 2005.
The Paris City Passport can be combined with an optional one-day RATP travel pass (Mobilis) for public transport in Paris and its inner suburbs (Zones 1-2). The Paris City Passport + Mobilis travel pass is available at only 10€.
Buy your Paris City Passport on line (check the website).
Deliveries are restricted to the French mainland. Have the Paris City Passport sent to your hotel, to family and friends…" Also, new tourist information kiosks are planned for key points throughout the city beginning with this summer at Rochechouart near Sacré Coeur. Then watch them pop up over the next many months.
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Website: http://en.parisinfo.com/rub6758.html&OTCP_action=citypass
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Admission to most museums is somewhere between 4.50 and 8.00 Euros.
If you plan on visiting several museums while in Paris, you should think about getting the
'Paris Museum Pass'.
The Museum Pass, "Carte Musées et Monuments", provides free access, without waiting, to the permanent collections of 70 museums and monuments,including the Louvre Museum.
~ Cards valid for 1 day are 18 Euros; for 3 days are 36 Euros, or 5 days are 52 Euros.
~ They are available for purchase at all pariticipating museums and monuments, and also may be purchased in all main metro stations and at the
Paris Tourist Information Office.
~ It is very easy to buy these passes once in Paris.
*ON FIRST SUNDAYS OF THE MONTH ENTRY TO ALL NATIONAL MUSEUMS are FREE.
HOWEVER....
Some of the privately-run museums are not included with this pass:
Musée Jacquemart-André,
Musée Maillol,
Musée Marmottan - Claude Monet
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Phone: (33) 01 44 61 96 60
Website: http://www.intermusees.com/wwwie/index.html
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Things To Do: *FREE* PARIS CITY MUSEUMS
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Attention Paris Visitors!!!
The Mayor of Paris has been nice enough to open some of it's city museums, free of charge.
This all started December 22, 2001.
This will include only the permanent collections of these museums. Any temporary or special shows held at these venues, will be only free to under 13 year olds.
Take advantage of visiting a few gems in this city already filled with special things to see and do.
These are free:
Musée Carnavalet - "Histoire de Paris"
23, rue de Sévigné (3rd)
Métro : Saint-Paul or Chemin Vert .
Tél. : 01 44 59 58 58
Musée Antoine Bourdelle
16, rue Antoine Bourdelle (15)
Tel: 01 49 54 73 81/82
Métro Montparnasse-Bienvenüe/Falguière
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10h to 17h, Closed Monday
In the heart of Montparnasse, the Bourdelle Museum perpetuates the artistic traditions of this district. When just a suburb to the capital, it became a settlement to poorer artists, among them Antoine Bourdelle once student of Rodin. Here you will find the sculptor Bourdelle's workshop preserved along with selections of his work.
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Things To Do: FREE Paris Museums - Part II
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Musée de la Vie Romantique
16 rue Chaptal (9th)
Tél: 01 48 74 95 38
Métro : BLANCHE, SAINT-GEORGES
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10h to 18h Closed Monday
This museum is housed in a private mansion. It is located in the district of Paris once called "The New Athens" by the artists and writers that moved here.
This was the home and workplace of the painter Ary Scheffer and his nephew the writer Ernest Renan.
The museum presents collections of memorabila and objets d'art bequeathed to the City of Paris, pointing out two great figures of the XIXème century:
the writer George Sand (1804-1876) and painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858).
The main house of the museum contains the personal belongings of George Sand and evokes the daily universe of the people that visited the house.
On the other side of the courtyard, is the workshop of Ary Scheffer where he worked between 1830 to 1858 and socialized with Chopin, Liszt, Lamartine, Tourgueniev, Delacroix and many of the artists of this era. This museum evokes an environment that helps call up the "romantic" ideas of the time period. Exhibits point out the artistic and literary life during the middle of the XIXème century.
Musée Zadkine
100 bis, rue d'Assas (6th)
Métro: Notre-Dame des Champs, Vavin
Tel: 01 43 26 91 91
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10h - 18h
Closed Mondays
http://www.paris-france.org/musees/Zadkine/
La Maison de Balzac
47, rue Raynouard (16th)
Métro: Passy / La Muette, RER C Boulainvilliers / Radio France
Tel:01 55 74 41 80
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10h - 17:40h Closed Mondays.
Located at the heart of the old village of Passy, this house is the only remaining Parisian residence of the writer.
Balzac lived here in 1840 to 1847 and wrote " The Human Comedy" here.
His apartment of five sections was located on the last floor of this three story house that opened onto a garden, as it does.
Balzac hid out here under the name "Mr. de Breugnol" to flee his creditors. You needed a password to enter his home.
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Things To Do: FREE Paris Museums - Part III
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Musée Cognacq-Jay8 rue Elzévir (3rd)
Tel: 01 40 27 07 21
Métro : Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert, Rambuteau
The collection of the Cognacq-Jay museum was formed between 1900 and 1925 by the businessman Ernest Cognacq and his wife Marie-Louise Jay. Founder of the department store Samaritaine.
The couple devoted part of their fortune to buy works and objets d'art, with a predilection for the XVIIIe French century. Upon his death (1928), Ernest Cognacq gave this collection to the city of Paris.
The museum presents paintings and sculptures of well known French artists (Lemoyne, Chardin, Fragonard) hanging with less known Masters (Lavreince, Saly). Woodwork, furniture pieces and decorative objets d'art complete the picture.
Once presented on the grand boulevards these works were moved in 1990 to this intimate old home located in the Marais, and former property of the Donon familyLa Maison de Victor Hugo6 Place des Vosges (4th)
Métro : Chemin-Vert, Saint-Paul, Bastille
Tel:01 42 72 10 16 Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de ParisAvenue Winston-Churchill (8th)
Tel:01 40 05 56 78
Currently CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS
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Did you know the Eiffel Tower is.......BROWN?!?!
I didn't.
Too many black and white photos we've been exposed to.
I always thought it was grey...until I saw it for the first time through the cab window as my French cab driver was racing Kamakazi-style through the Paris streets so I could catch my TGV on time. It was a combination Eureka and Near-Death-Experience for me!!
Hence, that moment and the sight of the Eiffel Tower in brown will forever be etched in my memory.
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Address: Trocadero
Directions: My God...HOW CAN YOU MISS IT???!!!
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The museum building of d'Orsay was originally a railway station, constructed for the Orleans Railway Company and finished in time for the Exposition Universelle (World Fair) of 1900 to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Emile Bénard and Victor Laloux.
It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939.
By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing center during World War II. The station's hotel closed in January 1973.
In 1977 the French Government decided to convert the station to a museum and it was opened by President François Mitterrand on 1 December 1986.
Its large iron structure, made out of steel and hidden by its stone-built fascade, contains more metal than the Eiffel Tower.
The museum's collections cover the years 1848 (2nd Republic) to WWI.
You will find a permanent collection of sculpture, painting, and decorative arts on three levels. They also display works at different times which cannot be exhibited on a permanent basis (photography, graphic arts) owing to their fragility.Opening Hours:Mondays: Closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday:
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
From June to September the museum opens at 9 a.m.
Ticket sales stop at 5:30 p.m.
ALSO:
* Be sure to visit the bookshop, cardshop, and giftshop.
* There is also a restaurant (middle level) which serves lunch; teas (except Thursday); and dinner (Thursday only).
* Cafe des Hauteurs (upper level) open to 5 p.m.
* Fast food on the mezzanine
*Guided Tours are scheduled Tuesday through Saturday in various languages.
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Phone: Recep. desk: 01.40.49.48.48
Address: 62 rue de Lille, 75343 Paris cedex 07
Directions: Entrance (museum & exhibitions) :
1 rue de Bellechasse
1 rue de la Legion d'Honneur
75007 Paris
Website: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
Other Contact: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ORSAY/
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Louvre: ART, ART, and ..... MORE ART !!!
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The LOUVRE Museum is HUGE... and never-ending!
Plan on getting lost several times and spending a minimum of five hours just to cover the basics!
BUT... if you are REALLY into Art, as I am, then my best advice is to give yourself a good 3 DAYS to really go through this bounty of ART thoroughly ... and at a pace that won't fatique your eyes and brain too much.
At the information desk beneath the glass pyramid, select the things you absolutely don't want to miss, and then take a map, available at the desk, and ENJOY!!!
What boggles the mind is that as much as is currently displayed at the Louvre, is also in storage!
Once a king's palace, the Louvre started life more simply as a fortress in 1190 to protect Paris against Viking raids.
King Francois I replaced the original fortress with a Renaissance-style building.
Thereafter, four centuries of French kings and emperors improved and enlarged the Louvre.
Approach the Louvre from the main entrance beneath the glass pyramid.
From here, corridors radiate out to each wing of the museum: Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities.
You, along with 50,000 other daily visitors, will be waiting in line just for the pleasure of getting lost for the rest of the day.
A half-hour wait to enter the building is normal, so be patient. It's worth it!
You can use this time to look through your guidebook and plan your assault.
Better yet, buy a museum pass, which gives you the right to go to the front of the line.
Want a sneakier tip? There is an entrance directly across from the Metro Palais Royale that has a thin waiting line, if any.
Or try the entrance at the Passage Richelieu.One last tip: WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES!!!The museum is open daily, &iexcept Tuesdays and certain public holidays, from 9am to 6pm.
Evening openings until 9:45pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Note: Sale of tickets ends at 5.15pm (9.15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays).
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Phone: 01 40 20 51 51
Address: Rue de Rivoli, Paris 1
Directions: GOD...YOU CAN'T MISS IT !!!
Website: www.louvre.fr/
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Things To Do: Eugene Delacroix Museum
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After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to reach Musée national Eugene Delacroix ... first because we couldn't locate it and secondly because we arrived after it had closed!! , our group of three single gals finally made it!!!
As an artist, one of my favourite of the famous artists is Eugene Delacroix, so I was really anticipating seeing his last place of residence and studio that he moved into December 28, 1857, having left his rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette studio.
This last apartment of his was closer to the Eglise de Saint Sulpice, for which Delacroix had just been commissioned to decorate the Chapelle des Saints-Anges.
He lived there for 6 years.
The museum has been faithfully restored by "The Society of Eugene Delacroix" and provides an intimate setting for a selection of paintings, watercolours, pastels, sketches, and preparatory studies by Delacroix himself, as well as a number of letters, and photographs of his close friends (Baudelaire, George Sand, Leon Reisner...); the whole gives a glimpse of the complex personality of the man who was one of the major figures in French painting in the 19th century.
Price of admission: 4 euros
OPEN: Every day from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
CLOSED: TUESDAYS, January 1st, May 1st, and December 25th.
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Phone: 33-1-44-41-86-50
Address: B6 rue de Furstenberg, Paris
Directions: Metro: Saint-Germaine-des-Pres or Mabillon
6th Arrondissement
Website: http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/
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Things To Do: Musee Edith Piaf
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If you are interested in visiting this museum you must make an appointment first. The museum is housed in the apartment of the director's house and by phoning Bernard Marchois, he will give you directions to the building and an access code which will allow you to enter through a first door, then a second. You will then need to climb 4 flights of stairs (no elevator), and then you will meet Marchois, author of two of a multitude of Piaf biographies. This is a shrine to Piaf's memory.
In his early childhood, Marchois knew Piaf slightly "between 1958 and 1963". The museum is two small rooms, quirky and very much a labour of love. Edith never lived in this part of Paris as an adult, but she did spend some time here as a child. The area is working class and immigrant, not highly frequented by tourists (my kind of place).
The visit is free and you can put whatever you want in the little money tray.
It is open Monday to Thursday afternoons, by appointment only.
"The Friends of Piaf" society founded this museum in 1977 but they want a "Museum of French Chansons", where they can see all of their Piaf memorabilia displayed.
To read an excellent online biography of Edith Piaf, go to the website below....it tells it all !
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Phone: 01-43-55-52-72
Address: 5 rue Crespin du Gast, 75011 Paris
Website: http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6057.asp
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hunterV Wed Dec 3, 2008 21:03 UTC
Hi, Maria Annastasia! Thanks for your wonderful story about your favorite city!@ | nyperose Sat Sep 20, 2008 04:56 UTC
Splendide page sur Paris! J'adore la ville lumière:-D | Herkbert Wed Sep 3, 2008 22:32 UTC
Maria.. you captured my favorite picture for your main pic. I have that shot but alas, it was during the day. I am hoping to try again when we return to Paris in December. Loved your tips and pics.. Tom | Nemorino Wed Sep 3, 2008 22:05 UTC
You've added dozens of fine new tips and updates to this page since I last stopped by, which was on April 2, 2006. Again I enjoyed reading your highly literate and entertaining (and informative!) travelogues and tips, with a nice personal touch. |
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