Paris pour les Nuls
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Panorama
The modern Tour de Montparnasse "answers" the Eiffel Tower.
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Paris and its Walls
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Paris walls
Paris' development has been strongly influenced by the walls and other barriers that have surrounded it since its founding.
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map of Paris
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Paris Green Spaces
Very few for such a large city (esp. if one discounts the two large parks on the extremities, Boulogne and Vincennes).
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Paris Arrondissements
A good image of how Paris is divided administratively.
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Manhattan Subway Map
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Paris Metro Map
One of many examples, the map shows a different way of understanding Paris.
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New Yorker, Leaving the station
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Galerie de l'Opéra
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Galerie de Caire (3rd arrondissement)
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Impasse des Bourdonnais
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Rue au Maire
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Impasse Barbette (1898)
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Rue Chanoinesse
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Rue des Trois-Canettes (disparue)
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June 1848 Barricades
Notice that they were in the East of Paris.
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Haussmann's Île de la Cité
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Haussmann's Paris
Imagine the amount of work, by steam engine and manpower, that had to build all the areas in orange.
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Lalanne, R. des Ecoles construction (1866)
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Percement de l'ave. de l'Opera (1877)
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Percement [breaking through ]de la Blvd. Arago
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Ave. de l'Opéra
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Blvd. de la Madeleine
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Louvre, from the west
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Rue de Rivoli
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Boulevard Saint-Michel (1877)
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Boulevard de Sebastopol(1877)
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Apartment Block
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Haussmann's L'Étoile
Haussmann pointed to this project as his favorite.
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Louvre Map
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Paris omnibus (c. 1900)
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Urinoir (new model), Chausée de la Muette
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Urinoir, square des Batignolles
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Voiture arroseuse [water wagon], near Notre Dame (1910)
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Garden, Champs-Elysées
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Morris Column (1900)
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Paris tree grills
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Les Halles
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Zone
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Zoniers (1913)
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Braquehais, Barricade sur les quais (1871)
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Doisneau, Gargouille, Notre Dame
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"Train in Countryside" (c. 1870-71)
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Train Wreck, Gare Montparnasse, 1895
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Gare du Nord
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"Inside Gare St. Lazare "(1877)
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"Gare St-Lazare" (1877)
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Lamy, Bridge, Place de l'Europe (1868)
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Place de l'Europe (from Perrichon's New Paris)
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Gare St. Lazare
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"The Pont de l'Europe" (1876)
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"Paris, a Rainy Day" (1877)
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"A Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann"
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"Boulevard Seen from Above" (1880)
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"Young Man at His Window" (1875)
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"Young Man at His Window", detail (1875)
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"Man on a Balcony" (1880)
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"The Place Saint-Augustin" (1877/78)
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"The Pont de l'Europe" variant (1876/77)
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"Paris, a Rainy Day" (parody)
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"Study of Paving Stones" (1877)
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"Perspective Study of Streets" (1877)
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"A Traffic Island, Boulevard Haussmann" (1880)
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Angle, rues de Constantinople, d'Edimbourg, 8e (W)
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"View Through a Balcony Grille" (1880)
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soliders on march(p)
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Hitler in Paris
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occ street
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man on balcony(p)
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occ street sign
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Poster, Rive Gauche
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Voie Pompidou, closed for pedestrians (July-Aug.)
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Paris Plage 2004
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Grande Arche de la Défense (1989)
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Paris Plage 2004
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Pyramide du Louvre
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