English version: My walking tours in Paris

The tours last about 2h.

Cost: on request

Stops at some interesting cafe for coffee or a light meal are included at the clients cost if desired.

MOST REQUESTED TOURS:

- Montmartre, the old village with its cobbled streets, vineyards, sinuous streets, unknown passages. A picturesque walk from the Bateau Lavoir where Picasso invented cubism to the Place du Tertre, the Sacré Coeur and the oldest church in Paris, and on the way, the Maison Rose celebrated by Suzanne Valadon and Utrillo and the Lapin Agile, one of the oldest cabarets in Paris.

- The old Marais, a beautifully preserved district with the most elegant medieval and post Renaissance mansions built by the fashionable nobility of the 16^th and 17^th centuries. Danielle’s commentary will evoke the lives and times. You will see the places where the history of France suddenly changed its course, where some of the most dramatic moments of the Revolution took place. The beautiful place des Vosges is on the way as well as the old Jewish area.

- The Jewish history in the old Paris and Le Marais, a walk which will take you from the portals of Notre Dame to the Jewish Marais. You will learn the history of the Jews in Paris, the anti-Semitism as well as how they became successful traders. Included is the world famous synagogue of the rue Pavée, the rue des Rosiers. France’s once not talked about involvement in the transportation of Jews to the Concentration Camps will be explored, ending at the poignant Memorial to those deported. We will evoke the expulsions and the immigrations of the Jews in Paris from the Middle Ages to our times. We will also admire, in the forecourt of the Museum of Jewish Art, the strange modern sculpture of Dreyfus.

After the tour you will be at liberty to visit the interior of the museum at your leisure.

- Around the Parc Monceau, on one side of the parc Monceau, you will discover the funny mansions of the actresses and cabaret dancers, of the writers and musicians, the salons they opened with the help of their rich supporters and which were, in the second half of the 19th century, the place to be. On the other side, the high society of bankers of the same period. You will have an insight into the lives of the Camondos, the Ephrussis, the Rothschilds, not to forget the neo Renaissance hostels of the Menier family. A tour which will take you back to a way of life, a dolce vita, that has disappeard forever swept away by WW2.

After the visit you will be able to visit the Hotel Camondo whose rooms, 18th century decoration and objets have been preserved exactly the way they were on the day the last of the Camondos died.

Other tours on request:

- The Ile St Louis

- The Latin Quarter

- The 6^th Arrondissement and the Revolution

- The Tuileries Gardens

- The Opera

- The St Denis basilica

- Le Louvre and its main rooms

- Montparnasse