Discover the capital of France through this video of Paris! In this clip, you will see the Arc de Triumph, the Eiffel tower, the Champs Elysées, the Guest Palace, the Louvre, the Seine river, the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, the Obelisk, the Opera, the Palace canals, the Palace Gazebo, the Petit Palace Garden, the Sacré Coeur, the bateaux-mouches, Versailles and other famous Parisian monuments! The footages of Paris are from www.worldclips.tv . Music : the song is “Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille” (Jacques Dutronc’s song cover by An Pierle) taken from www.archive.org .
I had but one day to spend in Paris, and this is what I did… Fat Tire Bike Tours – Paris Day Bike Tour fattirebiketours.com St. Christopher’s Inns, Paris www.st-christophers.co.uk The song in this video is “Love Story” by Dave Days, used with permission of dftba.com where you can buy the CD!
www.destinationluxury.com « A gastronomic temple on the world’s most beautiful Avenue » 75 Avenue des Champs Elysées Paris VIII David Holder and his father, Francis Holder, founder of the Holder Group, opened a new Ladurée tea salon and restaurant at 75 avenue des Champs-Elysées in September 1997. Their aim was to reproduce on the Champs-Elysées the refined atmosphere of their rue Royale establishment and to build a unique site, a symbol of the French « Art de vivre ». 365 days a year, from 7.30am to midnight, Ladurée serves breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and late supper for approximately 3000 clients daily. On the first floor, the ‘Eiffel Veranda’ and the outdoor terrace overlook the glamorous Champs Elysées avenue. The bar, very successful after 7pm, offers any time classic short and long drinks as well as wines and liquors. One can also sit at the bar for a quick lunch. On the second floor, the five cozy dining rooms, decorated in the ‘Second Empire’ refined style by the French interior designer Jacques Garcia, were dedicated to the 19th century Parisian muses “Paeva”, “Castiglione”, “Mathilde” but also la Bibliothèque (the Library) and La Chocolaterie (the Chocolate Factory). The menu of the restaurant is inspired by French regional cooking, as well as other cooking of the world, and is continuously evolving with the seasons and its creations. Ladurée Royale « The original establishment » 16 rue Royale Paris VIII This tea salon created in 1862 and decorated with …
The Champs-Élysées (French for “Eliseo’s Fields) is the most prestigious and broadest avenue in Paris. Its full name is “Avenue des Champs-Élysées”. With its cinemas, cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world, and with rents as high as .50 million a year for 1000 square feet (100 m²) of space, it remains the 2nd most expensive strip of real estate in the world (the first in Europe) after New York City’s Fifth Avenue. The name refers to the Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed in Roman mythology. The Champs-Élysées is known in France as La plus belle avenue du monde (“The most beautiful avenue in the world”). The arrival of global chain stores in recent years has slightly changed the character of the avenue, and in a first effort to stem these changes, the Paris City government (which has called this “banalization”) decided in 2007 to ban the Swedish clothing chain H&M from opening a store on the avenue. The avenue runs for 2 kilometres (1.25 miles) through the 8th arrondissement in northwestern Paris, from the Place de la Concorde in the east, with its obelisk, to the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly the Place de l’Étoile) in the west, location of the Arc de Triomphe. The Champs-Élysées forms part of the Axe historique. One of the principal tourist destinations in Paris, the lower part of the Champs-Élysées is bordered by greenery (Marigny Square) and by buildings such as the Théâtre Marigny and the Grand …
