Paris street walks of February and June 2004

A quiet place where the French love to bury their dead (and anyone else's dead, including Jim Morrisson, Imre Nagy, Oscar Wilde et al)

Truly the best view upon this city, as Brodsky would have said

Seine's left bank, a great place to get either laid, or ripped, or both at a time. The original site of Paris university, now all around town.

Montparnasse area on the left (southern) bank of the Seine: boulevards, trees and cafes

A fortress since XII century, then Royal palace (since 1546), now museum

A garden started by Maria de Medici in 1612, when she bought the plot from Francois duke of Luxembourg

Paris subway, one of the world's oldest metro systems

Paris underground bone and skull repositary, in Denfert Rochereau square, a complete waste of time

The river that divides Paris into rive gauche and rive droite is bigger than the Tiber, but still not much of a spectacle

The tower, erected amidst protests from most prominent French writers and artists, still bears witness to French government's total lack of taste

Some deranged firemen almost burned the Eiffel Tower down. Police sealed all approaches and watched.

A hill in the northern part of Paris, considered real cheap with real estate prices starting at Euro 4K/sq.m.

The place where Paris once started. For some reason Baron Haussman forgot to tear down a couple of medieval buildings there, so tourists still have where to flock, despite total lack of Galerie Lafayette branches

One of the few buildings Baron Haussman forgot to bring down while broadening Paris streets, a major tourist attraction, famous for the gargoyles and the Disney animation