7th borough - Movie Theater LA PAGODE

It has been a close shave for the only movie theater in the 7th district, LA PAGODE scheduled to be demolished recently. However, it could be saved from disappearing thanks to the determination of an association who obtained in 1990 its classification as authentic historical Japanese Pavilion. It had been imported and reassembled here, piece by piece, in the 19th century all for the beautiful eyes of Madame Morin, wife of the Director of the famous store LE BON MARCHE. Seen from the street, it looks more like a garden than a multiplex, but many think that this is much better. When the weather is nice, you can have a drink and enjoy the décor while you wait for the movie to begin. Pure magic !

(translation by Marion Hoffmann)



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1st borough - The Louvre and the Pyramid

The Louvre Pyramid as the Cour Napoléon are also the daily decor of Parisian who may be do not look any more at this amazing landscape.

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20th borough - Saint Blaise street since the door of the church Saint Germain de Charonne

Saint Blaise street, formerly Saint Germain street, was miraculously protected from the madness of the architects. Since the hall of the church Saint Germain de charonne, on the other side of Bagnolet street, we can dream about little in popular Paris such as we like it by admiring the perspective. Saint Blaise street reminds us conveniently that before being gobbled up by Paris, these streets, these blocks were villages.

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19th borough - Sunset Quai de Loire

The craze for the district of Villette and the canal of Ourcq transform little by little these formerly industrious and popular places into trendy meeting. It is well worth a more exotic sunset?

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18th borough - La Butte Montmartre

The Butte Montmartre attracts every days thousands of tourists. Many go Place du Tertre early t in the morning to take advantage of the open view on Paris from potron-kitten to take advantage of the open view on Paris without facing the sun. A good choice, isn't?...

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17th borough - Café "Au Bon Coin"

What else? A typical signboard, terrace tables, a cycle on its pedal, a panel of no-entry sign and a dog disguised as lampshade... " Le Bon Coin " is just in the corner of streets Lemercier and Jacquemont.


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16th borough - The gardens of the Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower

Fitted out in 1937 by roger Lardat for the World Fair of 1937, ponds and fountains of the trocadéro are for the program all the operators tours. And really, the perspective with the Seine and the Eiffel Tower in bottom of landscape is a must to the souvenir pictures . The most difficult is to reach the rail to immortalize the moment, because of the crowd of the tourists.


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15th borough - The aerial Métro of Paris

The line 6 of the Parisian subway circulates on a magnificent viaduct and is a miracle for all the lovers of Paris. This breathtaking picture taken since the montparnasse tower, allows to discover a part of the plan of the aerial line on the Garibaldi boulevard and the station Sèvres-Lecourbe.

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14th borough - The public urinal of the boulevard Arago

The boulevard Arago is famous for two reasons. First, we find the famous prison of La Santé there. But question the taxi drivers, it is doubtless for other one of its characteristics that they will quote you all the arago boulevard. Indeed, in the middle of the sinister pavement which lines the prison, rises the last urinal (Pissotière or Vespasienne) of Paris. A chance of a lifetime in our cities where, before the free automatic "sanisettes", It was necessary to enter a cafe and to pay to have the right to satisfy this very natural need.

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13th borough - The institutional squat of Frigos

There is squat and squat, especially when the occupants pay a rent!.... That one is a true miracle, both by its architecture and by the artists who live here. Situated very close by the BNF, rue des Frigos, or 91 quai Panhard & Levassor, it will be protected, in spite of or thanks to the development of all the district. Other curiosity, moving, the building shelters one of the locomotives of "death trains" during the second war. An artist of the Frigos, Jean-Michel Frouin, managed to make restore it by the Polish railroad employees and to make return in France. The site of the Frigos : http://www.les-frigos.com

© gérard Laurent