Sunday, July 30, 2006

Frequently Asked Questions

ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

Can I view a property before committing?

It is possible if you are on site to look at it, assuming there no guests at the flat at that moment. If you want to check out the area, the exact location is shown on the location link.

What is the minimum let?

Unless otherwise stated our minimum length of stay is 3 nights. You can of course pay for the minimum number of nights but stay for fewer if you wish.

How many people can stay?

Unless expressly agreed otherwise the maximum number of people who may occupy the property is 4.

What's included in the price?

The rental price includes the use of the property as a holiday rental, utilities (water, gas and electricity), use of the telephone (free phone calls to US and Canada and free incoming calls on the French line). Use of towels (one set - hand towel, wash cloth and bath towel per person) and linen. No administration charge.

How do I get to my property?

We can arrange a car to meet you at the airport if you wish. Costs vary depending on the car company, their available vehicles and where you are going. Expect to pay Euros 60-80 depending on which airport you are landing in and how many people you have in your party.

What time can we arrive?

For most arrivals you will be able to go into your property when you arrive in Paris. However occasionally, if the property is being used the previous night (and we might well not know this at the time you make your booking), this may not be possible. In this case we will try to make arrangements for you to leave your bags at the property until it is ready, in the afternoon usually by 4 pm.
If you need guaranteed access first thing in the morning we suggest you make your booking starting from the day before.

Who will let me in?

Our representative will be at the property to welcome you, let you in and tell you all about the property. At the same time he will introduce you to Paris and the immediate area, covering such important points as where the local shops and restaurants are and how the transport system works. You'll also be asked to sign our inventory - available for inspection on request, and fax it to us on your arrival. You will be provided with 2 sets of keys.

What about early or late arrivals?

If you are arriving outside our normal hours, you will have to pay an extra fee for late arrival and pay for the night before for early arrival.

What about a stroller and toys for your baby?

We can supply both at no charge.

Are there washing and ironing facilities?

Our property has a combined washer/dryer, iron and iron board.

What condition will the property be in?

Our property has been carefully selected and is of a standard appropriate to the price charged. It will always be clean and tidy.

Our flat has been rated as luxury with 4 stars by professional from France and the US.

What is the starter pack?

It's provisions for a light, continental style, breakfast and snacks for the first couple of days of your stay: croissants, butter, jams, tea and coffee, sugar, milk and fruit juice, plus any special requests - subject to price and availability.
You can find all these products on site at your request.

Cleaning products, soap for the washing machine paper towel, toilet paper will be present at no extra cost

Can I use the telephone?

Of-course. Free calls to the US and Canada, and free incoming calls on the French line.

Do I need to bring an electrical converter? France is on 220/240 volts as opposed to the North American 110/120 system. We put converter in the flat for your convenience.

Is there Internet access?

Our flat has high speed, broadband, Internet access and is complimentary.

Is there a vacuum cleaner?

Yes two of them on site for your convenience.

What do I do when I leave?

With the exception of the laundry, you are expected to leave the property in the same state as you found it. Our manager will be on hand to see you out. Check out is normally by 10.00 am but may be a little later by prior agreement. However if you do need to be guaranteed to be able to stay after 10.00 am (for late pm departures) we suggest you book the property for the following night as well.

When will I get my deposit back?

We will send your security-deposit less any charges incurred - extra cleaning (if required), damages etc. within 7 days of your departure.

What happen if I loose the Keys?

Expanses to cover the cost of Keys replacement will be taken from the deposit.

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Luxury Vacation Rental in Paris
Email: info@parisforvacation.com
Web: http://www.parisforvacation.com

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

MUSEUM IN PARIS AND ITS SUBURB

MUSEUM in PARIS:

Please find above a list of museum in Paris with web sites (when available), addresses, accessibility by public transportation, opening time and fees. I would recommend checking with each museum as these information might change depending on the time of the year.

Arc de Triomphe
http://www.monum.fr/
Place Charles de Gaulle - 75008 Paris
Métro: Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile
Bus: lines 22, 30, 31, 52, 73, 92
Open: from October to March from 10:00 to 22:30
Open: from April to September from 9:30 to 23:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros, free for under age 18
Free: on 1st Sunday in month

Musée de l'Armée -
http://www.invalides.org/

Hôtel national des InvalidesNorth entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1 November and 25 Décember
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60

Musée des Arts asiatiques-Guimet -
Le Panthéon Bouddhique
http://www.museeguimet.fr/
6, place d'Iéna - 75116 Paris
Métro: Iéna
Bus: lines 63, 82, 32, 22, 30
Phone: 01 56 52 53 00 – Fax: 01 56 52 53 54
Open daily except Tuesday, from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, ages 18 to 25.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs
http://www.ucad.fr
107, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris.
Métro: Palais–Royal, Tuileries, Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95
Access for the disabled via a lift at 105, rue de Rivoli
Parking: Carrousel du Louvre, Rue des Pyramides
Open: Tuesdays to Fridays from 11:00 to 18:00
Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed on Mondays and national holidays.
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros. Good for all three museums.

Musée d'Art et histoire du judaïsme
http://www.mahj.org/
71, rue du Temple - 75003 Paris
Phone: 01 53 01 86 60 - Fax: 01 42 72 97 47
Métro : Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, RER: Châtelet-Les Halles
Bus: lines 29, 38, 47, 75
Open: Monday to Friday from 11:00 to 18:00, Sunday from 10:00 to18:00
Closed: Saturday
Price: 6.80 euros, reduced 4.50 euros 18 to 26 years, free if you are less than 18

Musée des Arts et métiers
http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/
60, rue Réaumur - 75003 Paris
Phone: 01 53 01 82 00 - Fax: 01 53 01 82 01
Métro: Arts et Métiers, Réaumur-Sébastopol
Bus: lines 20, 38, 39, 47
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, on Thursday to 21:30
Closed: Sundays and holidays
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.50 euros, free if you are less than 18

Musée des Arts et Traditions populaires, Centre d'Ethnologie Française
http://www.musee-atp.fr/
6, avenue du Mahatma Gandhi - 75116 Paris
Phone: 01 44 17 60 00 - Fax: 01 44 17 60 60
Métro: Sablons
Bus: line 73 from Les Sablons, or line 144, Jardin d'Acclimatation
Open: from 9:45 to 17:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros,

Maison de Balzac ( 3 minutes walk form the flat viewed at Http://www.parisforvacation.com )
http://www.paris.fr/musees/balzac/
Phone: 01 55 74 41 80
47, rue Raynouard - 75016 Paris
Métro: Passy or La Muette, RER 'C' Boulainvilliers
Bus: lines 52, 70, 72
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: free for the permanent collection
if you are less than 14

Bibliotheque National - François Mitterrand
http://www.bnf.fr/
Phone: 01 53 79 59 59
Quai François-Mauriac - 75013 Paris
Métro: Quai de la Gare and Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
RER 'C': Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
Bus: lines 62, 89
Open: Monday from 14:00 to 19:00, Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 to 19:00, and Sunday from 12:00 to 19:00
Closed: 1 January, Easter, 1 and 8 May, Pentecôte, 14 July, 15 August, 1 and 11 November, and 25 December
Access to all above age 16, in the upper studies library
Price: 3.00 euros, two-day carte 4.50 euros

Bibliotheque National
http://www.bnf.fr/
Phone: 01 53 79 59 59
58, rue de Richelieu - 75002 Paris
Métro: Bourse, Palais-Royal or Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 29, 39, 48, 81
Open: Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00, Saturday 10:00 to 17:00
Closed: Sunday and Major Holidays

Musée Bourdelle
http://www.paris.fr/musee s/bourdelle/
Phone: 01 49 54 73 73 - Fax: 01 45 44 21 65
18, rue Antoine Bourdelle - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse-Bienvenüe or Falguière
Bus: lines 58, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Free: the permanent collection

Musée Carnavalet Museum
http://www.paris.fsr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
Phone: 01 44 59 58 58 - Fax : 01 44 59 58 10
23, rue de Sévigné - 75003 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul or Chemin-Vert
Bus: lines 29, 69, 76, 96
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Free: the permanent collection

Musée de la Contrafaçon
http://ww w.museums-of-paris.com/musee_en.php?code=326
Phone: 01 56 26 14 00 - Fax: 01 56 26 14 01
16, rue de la Faisanderie - 75016 Paris
Métro: Porte Dauphine, RER 'C': Avenue Foch
Bus: line PC
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 14:00 to 17:30
Price: 2.50 euros

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
http://www.henricartierbresson.org/
Phone: 01 56 80 27 00 - Fax: 01 56 80 27 01
2, Impasse Lebouis - 75014 Paris
Métro: Gaité or Edgard Quinet
Bus: lines 28, 58 ,88
Open: Wednesday from 13:00 to 20:30, Thursday, Friday, Sunday from 13:00 to 18:30, Saturday from 11:00 to 18:45
Closed: Monday, Tuesday and public holidays
Closed: all August, from 25 December to 1 January
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros for under 26 and over 60
Free: Wednesday from 18:30 to 20:30

Fondation Cartier - pour l'art comtemporain
http://www.fondation.c artier.fr/home.htm
Phone: 01 42 18 56 51 - Fax: 01 42 18 56 52
261, boulevard Raspail - 75014 Paris
Métro: Raspail or Denfert-Rochereau, RER 'B': Denfert-Rochereau
Bus: lines 38, 68, 88
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 20:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.50 euros, free under age 10
'Nomade' evenings, Thursday at 20:30, same Price
Resevation: 01 42 18 56 72

Catacombes de Paris
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
Phone: 01 43 22 47 63 - Fax: 01 43 22 48 17
1, place Denfert-Rochereau - 75014 Paris
Métro: Denfert-Rochereau, RER 'B': Denfert-Rochereau
Bus: lines 38, 68, 88
Open: from 10:00 to 17:00, last tickets 16:00
Closed: Monday, and certain public holidays
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.30 euros, children 2.50 euros

Musée Cernuschi
http://www.paris.fr/musees/cernuschi/default.htm
Phone: 01.45.63.50.75
7, avenue Vélasquez - 75008 Paris
Métro: Villiers
Bus: lines 30, 94
Closed: for renovation until June 2005
Open: from 10:00 to 17:40
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Free: the permanent collection

Sainte-Chapelle
http://www.monum.fr/
Phone: 01 53 40 60 97
4, blouevard du Palais - 75001 Paris
Métro: Cité, RER Châtelet or St Michel-Notro Dame
Bus: lines 21; 38, 85, 96
Open: from 9:30 to 18:00, in winter from 9:00 to 17:00
Price: 6.10 euros, reduced 4.10 euros
Free: under 18 and 1st Sunday of month from October to March

Musée de la Chasse
http://www.chassenature.org/site_musee/musee-home.html
Phone: 01 53 01 92 40
60, rue des Archives, Hôtel Guénégaud - 75003 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau orHôtel de Ville
Bus: 29, 75
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, from 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: 4.60 euros, reduced 2.30 euros

Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/
Phone: 01 40 05 80 00
30, avenue Corentin-Cariou - 75019 Paris
Métro: Porte de la Villette
Bus: 75, PC2, PC3
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00, to 19:00 on Sunday
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.50 euros, reduced 5.50 euros, free under age 7

Musée Clemenceau
Phone: 01 45 20 53 41
8, rue Benjamin Franklin - 75016 Paris
Métro: Trocadéro or Passy
Bus: lines 22, 30, 32, 63, 82
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 14:00 to 17:00
Closed: Sunday, Monday and public holidays
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, free if you are less than 12

Musée Cognacq-Jay
http://www.paris.fr/musees/cognacq_jay
Phone: 01 40 27 07 21 - Fax: 01 40 27 89 44
8, rue Elzévir - 75003 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert, Rambuteau
Bus: lines 29, 69, 76, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and some public holidays
Free: permanent collection

Conciergerie
http://www.monum.fr/
Phone: 01 53 40 60 93 - Fax: 01 53 40 60 96
2, boulevard du Palais - 75001 Paris
Métro: Cité, Châtelet or Saint-Michel, RER Châtelet or St Michel-Notre Dame
Bus: lines 21; 38, 85, 96
Open: from 9:30 to 18:00, in winter from 9:00 to 17:00
Closed: 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Price: 6.10 euros, reduced 4.10 euros
Free: under 18 and 1st Sunday in month

Musée Curie
http://www.musee.curie.fr/
Phone-fax: 01 42 34 67 50
11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie - 75005 Paris
RER: Luxembourg
Bus: lines 21, 27, 38, 82, 85
Open: Monday to Friday from 13:30 to 17:00
Closed: weekends, the month of August and public holidays
Free entry for all

Crypte archèologique
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
Phone: 01 55 42 50 10 - Fax: 01 43 29 30 55
Place du Parvis de Notre Dame - 75004 Paris
Métro: Cité or Saint-Michel
RER: Châtelet-Les Halles or Saint Michel-Notre Dame
Bus: lines 24, 25, 27, 96
Open 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and certain holidays
Price: 3.30 euros, reduced 2.20 euros, children 1.60 euros

Dali Espace Montmartre
http://www.daliparis.com/
Phone: 01 42 64 40 10 - Fax: 01 42 64 93 17
11, rue Poulbot - 75018 Paris
Métro: Abbesses or Anvers
Bus: lines 54, 80, Montmartrobus
Funicular: from Anvers Métro stop
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00, until 22:00 in summer
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 5.50 or 4.00 euros

Musée Dapper
http://www.dapper.com.fr/
Phone: 01 45 00 01 50
35, rue Paul-Valéry - 75016 Paris
Métro: Etoile, Kléber, Victor Hugo or RER Etoile
Bus: 52, 82
Open: Wednesday to Monday from 11:00 to 19:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
Freeif less tahn 16 and last Wednesday of month

Palais de la Découverte
http://www.palais-decouverte.fr/
Phone: 01 56 43 20 20
Avenue Franklin-Roosevelt - 75008 Paris
Métro: Champs Elysées-Clemenceau, RER Invalides
Bus: 28, 42, 72, 73, 83
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 to 18:00
Open: Sunday and holidays from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed: Monday, 1 January, 1 May, 14 July, 15 August, 25 Demember
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 5

Musée Eugène Delacroix
http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/
Phone: 01 44 41 86 50 - Fax: 01 43 54 36 70
6 rue de Furstenberg - 75006 Paris
Métro: Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Open: 9:30 to 17:00
Closed: Tuesday, 1 January, 1 May and 25 December
Price: 5.00 euros, free under age 18

Musée des Égouts de Paris
http://www.paris.fr/fr/Environnement/img10/Musees/egouts1.ASP
In front of 93, quai d'Orsay - 75007 Paris
Phone: 01 53 68 27 81 - Fax: 01 53 68 27 89 ok
Métro: Alma-Marceau
RER: Pont de l'Alma
Bus: lines 42, 63, 80, 92
Open: Winter from 11:00 to 16:00, in summer from 11:00 to 17:00
Closed: Thursday, Friday, and last 3 weeks in January
Price: 3.80 euros, reduced 3.05 euros

Musée de l'Erotisme
Phone: 01 42 58 28 73
72, boulevard de Clichy - 75018 Paris
Métro: Blanche
Bus: lines 30, 54, 67
Open: from 10:00 to 02:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros

Musée Henner
http://www.rmn.fr/
Phone: 01 47 63 42 73 - Fax: 01 43 80 00 82
43, avenue de Villiers - 75017 Paris
Métro: Monceau, Malesherbes or Wagram
Bus: lines 31, 94
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 12:00, from 14:00 to 17:00
Closed: Monday
Free for all

Musée de l'Histoire de France - Hôtel de Rohan
http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/
Phone: 01 40 27 60 96 - Fax: 01 40 27 66 45
Hôtel de Soubise, 60, rue des Francs–Bourgeois
Open: Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:30.
Open: weekends from 14:00 to 17:30. Closed Tuesday and holidays.
Price: E2.3 to E3

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
http://www.mnhn.fr/
Phone: 01 40 79 56 01 - Fax: 01 40 79 39 09
36, rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - 75005 Paris
58, rue Cuvier, Jardin des Plantes
Métro: Jussieu or Austerlitz
Bus: lines 24, 57, 61,63, 89 et 91

Jardin des Plantes: open from 7:30 to 19:45, free entry
Ménagerie: open 9:00 to 17:00
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.50 euros
Closed: Tuesday, all below:
Grande Galerie de l'évolution: open from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros
Galeries de paléontologie et d'anatomie: open from 10:00 to 17:00
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros
Galerie de minéralogie, géologie: open from 10:00 to 17:00
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3;00 euros
Serres: open from 13:00 to 17:00
Price: 2.50 euros, reduced 1.50 euros

Musée de l'Homme
http://www.mnhn.fr/
Phone: 01 44 05 72 72
17, place du Trocadéro - 75016 Paris
Métro: Trocadéro
Bus: lines 22, 30, 32, 63, 72, 82
Open: Monday, Wednesday to Friday from 9:45 to 17:15
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 18:30
Closed: Tuesday and public holidays
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros, 3.00 euros under age 16

Hôtel de Ville
http://www.paris.fr/
Phone: 01 42 76 50 49
Place de l'Hôtel de Ville - 75004 Paris
Métro: Hôtel de Ville
Bus: lines 38, 47, 67, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 85, 96
Open: Monday to Friday, by reservation
Free for all

Maison de Victor Hugo
http://www.paris.fr/musees/maison_de_victor_hugo/default.htm
Phone: 01 42 72 10 16 - Fax: 01 42 72 06 64
Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée, 6, place des Vosges - 75004 Paris
Métro: Bastille, Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert
Bus: lines 20, 29, 65, 69, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Mondays and public holidays
Price: Free for all

Institut du monde arabe
http://www.imarabe.org/
Phone: 01 40 51 38 38 - Fax 01 43 54 76 45
1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard
Place Mohammed-V - 75005 Paris
Métro: Jussieu or Cardinal-Lemoine
Bus: lines 24, 63, 67, 86, 87, 89
Open 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and 1 May
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros

Hôtel des Invalides
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1 November and 25 December
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60

Musée Jacquemart-Andre
http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/
Phone: 01 45 62 11 59 - Fax: 01 45 62 16 36
158, boulevard Haussmann - 75008 Paris
Métro: Miromesnil or Saint-Philippe du Roule.
Bus: 22, 43, 84
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 9.50 euros, reduced 6.50 euros ages 7-17, free under age 7

Jeu de Paume
http://www.jeudepaume.org/
Phone: 01 47 03 12 50 - Fax: 01 47 03 12 51
1, place de la Concorde - 75008 Paris
Métro: Concorde
Bus: lines 24, 42, 72, 73, 84, 94
Open: Wednesday to Friday from 12:00 to 19:00
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros

Fondation Le Corbusier
http://www.fondationle corbusier.asso.fr/
Phone: 01 42 88 41 53
Villas La Roche et Jeanneret
8-10, square du Dr-Blanche - 75016 Paris
Métro: Jasmin
Bus: line 22
Open: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:30
Open: Monday to Thursday from 13:30 to 18:00, to 17:00 on Friday
Closed: weekends, August, from 23 December to 1 January
Price: 2.40 Euros, reduced 1.60 euros

Mémorial du Maréchal Leclerc Hauteclocque
et de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin
http://www.paris.fr/musees/memorial/index.html
Phone: 01 40 64 39 44
In Atlantique garden above Gare Montparnasse
23, allée de la deuxième DB - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse, Edgar Quinet or Gaité
Bus: lines 28, 58, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:40
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price temporary exhibitions: 4.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros
Free: permanent exhibition

Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1 November and 25 Décember
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60

Musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/
Phone: 01 40 20 50 50 - Fax: 01 40 20 54 42
Auto reply: in 5 languages: 01 40 20 51 51
Place du Palais-Royal - 75001 Paris
Main entry: through the pyramid - 9:00 to 22:00
Enter: from the place Palais-Royal, through to the pyramid, from 9:00 to 18:00
Enter: from the galerie Carrousel, 99, rue de Rivoli, from 9:00 to 22:00
Métro: Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre
Bus: lines 21, 27, 29, 39, 48, 69, 72, 81, 95
Open: from 9:00 to 18:00, Monday and Wednesday to 21:45
Closed: Tuesday and some holidays
Price: 8.50 euros from 9:00 to 18:00, 6.00 euros from 18:00 to 21:45
Price: reduced after 18:00 and Sunday, free under age 18
Free: 1st Sunday of the month and 14 July
Entry: to Musée Eugène–Delacroix on same day is included

Musée du Luxembourg
http://www.senat.fr/
Phone: 01 42 34 25 95 - Fax : 01 45 44 57 33
19, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 Paris
Métro: St-Sulpice, RER 'B' Luxembourg
Bus: 38, 84, 58, 89
Open: Monday, Friday, weekends from 11:00 to 22:00
Open: Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 to 19:00
Open: 1 and 11 November, 25 December, 1 January, 11:00 to 19:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 9.00 euros, reduced 6.00 euros, free for less than 8 years old
Temporary exhibitions in the Senat's museum

Musée Maillol

Fondation Dina Vierny
http://www.museemaillol.com/
Phone: 01 42 22 59 58
59-61 rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Rue du Bac
Bus: lines 63, 69, 84, 94
Open: from 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday and holidays
Price: 8.00 euros, reduced 6.00 euros

Bibliotheque Forney
http://www.paris-bibliotheques.org/
Phone: 01 42 78 14 80
1, rue du Figuier - 75004 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul or Pont Marie
Bus: lines 67, 69, 96
Open: Tusday to Saturday from 13:30 to 20:00
Closed: Sunday, Monday, 11 November and 25 December
Price: exhibitions: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.00 euros

Fondation Yves Saint Laurent
http://www.fondation-pb-ysl.net/
Phone: 01 44 31 64 00
5, avenue Marceau - 75008 Paris
Métro: Alma-Marceau
Bus: lines 42, 72, 80, 92
Open: Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and Tuesday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros

Musée de l'Eventail
http://www.annehoguet.com/
Phone: 01 42 08 90 20
2, boulevard de Strasbourg - 75010 Paris
Métro: Strasbourg-Saint-Denis
Bus: lines 20, 38, 39, 47
Open: from Monday to Wednesday from 14:00 to 18:00
Closed: Thursday to Sunday, and on public holidays
Price: 6 E

Galléria - Musée de la Mode
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_galliera/
Phone: 01 56 52 86 00
10, avenue Pierre-1er-de-Serbie - 75016 Paris
Métro: Iéna or Alma-Marceau
Bus: lines 32, 63, 42, 72, 80, 92
Open: exhibitions: from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.50 euros, reduced 5.00 euros or 3.50 euros, free under age 14

Manufacture des Gobelins
http://www.museums-of-paris.com/musee_en.php?code=349
Phone: 01 44 54 19 33
42, avenue des Gobelins - 75013 Paris
Métro: Les Gobelins
Bus: lines 27, 47, 83, 91
Open: Tuesday to Thursday, tours at 14:15 and 14:30
Closed: Friday to Monday
Price: 8.00 euros, reduced 6.00, free under age 7

Galeries du Grand Palais
http://www.rmn.fr/
3, avenue du Général Eisenhower - 75008 Paris
Métro: Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau or Franklin-Roosevelt
Bus: lines 28, 32, 42, 49, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
Open: from 10:00 to 20:00, and until 22:00 on Wednesdays
Open: from 13:00 if no reservations were made
Closed: Tuesdays, 25 December and 1 May
Price: E8 to E11

Reservation Information

At the Paris Tourist Office - in American Express
11, rue Scribe - 75009 Paris
Métro: Opéra and RER Auber
Phone: 08 92 68 30 00

At FNAC, Virgin Megastore, Carrefour, Printemps-Haussmann, Auchan, Galeries Lafayette, Bon Marché, BHV, Géant stores in Paris

Phone: 08 92 68 46 94

Web: http://www.fnac.com/ Please read carefully:

Visits with reservations from 10:00 to 13:00

Visitors have 30 minutes to enter the exhibition, starting on the hour indicated on their tickets.

Visits without reservations from 13:00 to 20:00 (ticket sales stop at 19:15), Wednesday until 22:00 (ticket sales stop at 21:15)

Reservations can not be made directly at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais.

Reservations can not be made on the actual day of the visit nor the day before.

Prices: may vary depending on the exhibitions

Musée Grevin
http://www.grevin.com/
Phone: 01 47 70 85 05
10, boulevard Montmartre - 75009 Paris
Métro: Grands Boulevards
Bus: lines 20, 39, 48
Open: Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:30
Open: weekends and public holidays from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 16.00 euros, reduced 13.80 euros, and children 9.00 euros, reduced 8.50 euros

Halle Saint-Pierre
http://hallesaintpierre.org/
Phone: 01 42 58 72 89
2, rue Ronsard - 75018 Paris
Métro: Anvers or Abbesses
Bus: 30, 54, 85
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.50 euros

Musée Hébert
http://www.rmn.fr/
Phone: 01 42 22 23 82 - Fax: 01 45 48 42 39
85, rue du Cherche-Midi - 75006 Paris
Métro: Vanneau or Saint Placide
Open: Monday, Wednesday to Friday, from 12:30 to 18:00
Open: weekends from 14:00 to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: E2.3 to E3

Musée du parfum Fragonard
http://www.fragonard.com/
Phone: 01 42 60 32 14
9, rue Scribe - 75009 Paris
Métro: Opéra, RER Auber
Bus: lines 20, 21, 27, 42, 68, 81, 95
Open: Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 17:30
Open: Sunday and holidays from 9:30 to 16:00
Free for all

Musée de la Marine
http://www.musee-marine.fr/
Phone: 01 53 65 69 53
17, place du Trocadéro - 75016 Paris
Métro: Trocadéro
Bus: lines 22, 30, 32, 63
Open: Wednesday to Monday from10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday, 1 May, 25 December and 1 January
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.40 euros,

Musée Marmottan-Monet
http://www.marmottan.com/
Phone: 01 44 96 50 33
2, rue Louis-Boilly - 75016 Paris
Métro: La Muette
Bus: lines 22, 32, 52
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros

Musée de la Mode et du Textile
http://www.ucad.fr
Phone: 0144 55 57 50 - Fax: 01 44 55 57 84
105-107, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris
Access for the disabled via a lift at 105, rue de Rivoli
Métro: Palais-Royal, Tuileries, Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95
Open: from Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 18:00 , Wednesday to 21:00
Open: Weekends from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and national holidays.
Talks and guided tours: phone Artdéco Culture on 01 44 55 59 26.
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros for ages 18-25, free under age 18

Musée de la Monnaie
http://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/
Phone: 01 40 46 55 35
11, quai Conti - 75006 Paris
Métro: Pont-Neuf
Bus: lines 24, 27
Open: from Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 17:30, weekends from 12:00
Closed: Monday
Visits by reservation, Wednesday and Friday at 14:15
Price: 8.00 euros, reduced 6.00 euros, free under age 16

Musée de Montmartre
http://www.paris.fr/musees
Phone: 01 49 25 89 37
12, rue Cortot - 75018 Paris
Métro: Lamarck-Caulaincourt, Abbesses
Bus: lines 80 and Montmartrobus
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 3.50 euros

Musée du Montparnasse
Phone: 01 42 22 91 96
21, avenue du Maine - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse
Bus: lines 82, 92, 94, 95, 96
Open: only during temporary exhibitions
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 12:30 to 19:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros

Musée Gustave Moreau
http://www.musee-moreau.fr/
14 rue La Rochefoucauld - 75009 Paris
Phone: 01 48 74 38 50 – Fax: 01 48 74 18 71
Métro: Trinité
Bus: 32, 42, 43, 81, 89
Open daily from 10:00 to 12:45, and from 14:00 to 17:15
Closed Tuesday
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros for ages 18-26,
Free: under age 18, and 1st Sunday in month
Contains the major works by Gustave Moreau

Musée du Moyen Age

Thermes de Cluny
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/
Phone: 01 53 73 78 16 - Fax: 01 43 25 85 27
6, place Paul Painlevé - 75005 Paris
Métro: Saint-Michel or Cluny-la-Sorbonne
RER: C Saint-Michel or RER B Cluny-La Sorbonne
Bus: lines 21, 27, 38, 63, 85, 86, 87
Open: from 9:15 to 17:45
Closed: Tuesday
Tarif: 6.70 euros, reduced 5.20 euros, reduced for all on Sunday
Free: under age 18, and 1st Sunday of month

Musée de la Musique
http://www.cite-musique.fr/
Phone: 01 44 84 45 00
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès - 75019 Paris
Métro: Porte-de-Pantin
Bus: lines 75, PC2, PC3
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00, Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 5.20 euros, 3.20 euros under age 18
Free: under age 18 for the permanent collection

Notre Dame de Paris
http://www.cathedraledeparis. com/
Phone 01 42 34 56 10
6, place du Parvis-de-Notre-Dame - 75004 Paris
Métro: Cité, Saint-Michel
Bus: lines 21, 24, 38, 47, 85, 96
Open: Monday to Saturday from 8:00 to 18:45, Sunday 8:00 to 19:45
Towers: October to March, from 10:00 to 17:30, April to June from 9:30 to 19:30, July and August from 9:00 to 19:30 and to 23:00 on weekends, September from 9:30 to 19:30
Price: 6.10 euros, reduced 4.10 euros
Free: under age 18, 1st Sunday in month and from October to March
Musée de Notre-Dame
Phone: 01 43 25 42 92
10, rue du Cloître Notre-Dame - 75004 Paris
Open: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and some holidays, from 14:30 to 18:00
Closed: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Price: 2.50 euros, reduced 1.50 euros

Musée de l'Opéra, Bibliothèque
http://www.opera-de paris.fr/
Phone: 01 47 42 07 02
Place de l'Opéra - 75009 Paris
Métro: Opéra, Chaussée-d'Antin, and RER 'A' Auber
Bus: lines 20, 21, 22, 27, 29, 42, 52, 53, 66, 68, 81, 89, 95
Open: Museum - daily from 10:00 to 17:00, except for matinée performances
Open: Library - Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 17:00
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros - inluded for Opéra visit

Musée de l'Orangerie
Phone: 01 42 97 48 16 - Fax: 01 42 61 30 82
Jardin des Tuileries - 75001 Paris
Métro: Concorde
http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/

Musée d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
Phone: 01 40 49 48 14
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur – 75007 Paris
Métro: Solférino or RER C Musée d'Orsay
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00, Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00, Thursday until 21:45
Closed: Monday and 25 December
Price: 7.00 euros, redeuced 5.00 euros, free under age 18
Price: 5.00 euros on Sundays after 16:15 and Thursdays after 20:00
Built inside the former Orsay train station, the museum displays a series of collections featuring artistic works from the second half of the 19th century in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, city planning, decorative arts, and photography.

Palais de le Porte Dorée - Aquarium
http://www.musee-afriqueoce anie.fr/
Phone: 01 44 74 84 80 - Fax: 01 43 43 27 53
293, avenue Daumesnil - 75012 Paris
Métro: Porte-Dorée
Bus: 46 and PC
Open: from 10:00 to 17:15
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros

Palais de Tokyo - Centre d'art contemporain
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/
Phone: 01 47 23 38 86
13, avenue du Président-Wilson - 75016 Paris
Métro: Alma-Marceau or Iéna
Bus: lines 32, 42, 63, 72, 92
Open: Tuesday to Sunsay from 12:00 to midnight
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Today's art, video, installations

Panthéon
http://www.monum.fr/
Phone: 01 44 32 18 00
Place du Panthéon - 75005 Paris
Métro: RER Luxembourg
Bus: lines 21, 27, 38, 84, 89
Open: from 10:00 to 17:45, in winter to 17:15
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros
Free: under age 18, 1st Sunday in month, October to March
'Nécropole' of France's greats

Pavillon des Arts
http://www.paris.f r/musees/pavillon_des_arts
Phone: 01 42 33 82 50 - Fax: 40 28 93 22
101, rue Rambuteau - 75001 Paris
Métro: Châtelet-Les Halles
Bus: 29, 38, 47
Open: from 11:30 to 18:30
Closed: Monday and holidays
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 14

Musée de la Poste
http://www.laposte.fr/musee
Phone: 01 42 79 24 24
34, boulevard de Vaugirard - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse-Bienvenüe
Bus: lines 88, 92,94, 95, 96
Open: Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Sunday and public holidays
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.50 euros, free under age 12

Patrimoine Photographique - Hôtel de Sully
http://www.patrimoine-photo.org/
Phone: 01 42 74 47 75
62, rue Saint Antoine - 75004 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul or Bastille
Bus: lines 69, 76, 96
Open: from 10:00 to 18:30
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros

Pavillon de l'Arsenal
http://www.pavillon-arsenal.com/
Phone: 01 42 76 33 97 - Fax: 01 42 76 26 32
21, boulevard Morland - 75004 Paris
Métro: Sully-Morland ou Bastille
Bus: lines 87, 86, 67
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 to 18:30
Open: on Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00
Closed: Mondays and on 1 January
Free

Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Métro: Champs Elysées-Clemenceau

Maison Européene de la Photographie
http://www.mep-fr.org/
5/7 rue de Fourcy - 75004 Paris.
Phone: 01 44 78 75 00 - Fax: 01 44 78 75 15
Métro: Saint-Paul or Pont Marie.
Bus: lines 67, 69, 96, 76.
Open: from 11:00 to 20:00
Closed: Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
Free: under age 8, and on Wednesday from 17:00 to 20:00

Musée des Plans-Reliefs
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open: daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1 November and 25 Décember
Open: October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open: from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros for age 18-26 and over 60
Free if you are less than 18

Musée Picasso
http://www.musee-picasso.fr/
Phone: 01 42 71 25 21 - Fax: 01 48 04 75 46
Hôtel Salé - 5, rue de Thorigny - 75003 Paris
Métro: Saint-Sébastien Froissart, Chemin Vert or Saint-Paul
Bus: lines 29, 69, 75, 96
Open: 9:30 to 17:30 from Ocober to April, and 9:30 to 18:00 from April to October
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 18
Price special expos: 6.70 euros, reduced and Sunday 5.20 euros
Free: under age 18, 1st Sunday in month
Closed: Tuesday, 25 December and 1 January

Centre Pompidou
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/
Phone: 01 44 78 12 33
Place Georges-Pompidou - 75004 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau, Châtelet or Hôtel de Ville
Open: Tuesday to Monday from 11:00 to 21:00, to 23:00 Thursday
Closed: Tuesday and 1 May
Price: exhibitions from 5.00 to 9.00 euros, day pass 10.00 euros
Free: under age 18
Price: Musée d'Art Moderne, 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros
Media centre, library, graphic arts, Brancusi Atelier, temporary exhibitions

Musée de la Poupée
http://www.museedelapoupee paris.com/
Phone: 01 42 72 73 11
Impasse Berthaud, just off 22, rue Rambuteau - 75003 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau
Bus: lines 29, 38, 47
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, 3.00 euros for ages 3-18

Musée de la Publicité
http://www.museedelapub.org/
Phone: 01 44 55 57 50 - Fax: 01 44 55 57 84
107, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris
Access for the disabled via a lift at 105, rue de Rivoli
Métro: Palais-Royal, Tuileries, Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95
Open: 11:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Friday, Wednesday to 21:00
Open: Weekends from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and national holidays.
Talks and guided tours: phone Artdéco Culture on 01 44 55 59 26.
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros; for ages 18-25, free under age 18

Musée Rodin
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
Phone: 01 44 18 61 10 - Fax: 01 44 18 61 30
Hôtel Biron - 77, rue de Varenne - 75007 Paris
Métro: Varenne
Bus: lines 82, 92
Open: from 9:30 to 16:45, October to April
Open: from 9:45 to 17:45, April to October
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, just garden 1 euro
Free: under age 18 and 1st Sunday in month

Musée Roland Garros
http://www. fft.fr/rolandgarros/en/tenniseumMaq.html
Phone: 01 47 43 48 48
2, avenue Gordon-Bennett - 75016 Paris
Métro: Porte d'Auteuil
Bus: lines 32, 52, PC1
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros for under age 18

Musée de la sculpture en plein air
Phone: 43 26 91 90
Quai Saint-Bernard - 75005 Paris
Métro: Gare d'Austerlitz
Bus: lines 24, 63, 89
Open: Free access

Tombeau de Napoléon - Saint-Louis des Invalides
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1 November and 25 Décember
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60

Tour Eiffel
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/
Phone: 01 44 11 23 23
Champ de Mars - 75007 Paris
Métro: Bir-Hakeim
Bus: lines 42, 69, 82, 87
Open: from 9:30 to 23:00, in summer from 9:00 to 24:00
Price: 2nd stage, walk up stairs, 3.50 euros
Elevator: 1st stage, 4.00 euros, reduced 2.20 euros
Elevator: 2nd stage, 7.30 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Elevator: 3rd stage, 10.40 euros, reduced 5.70 euros

Musée de la Vie Romantique
http://ww w.paris.fr/musees/Vie_romantique/default.htm
Phone: 01 55 31 95 67 - Fax: 01 48 74 28 42
Maison Renan Scheffer - 16, rue Chaptal - 75009 Paris
Métro: Saint George, Place Blanche or Pigalle
Bus: lines 67, 68, 74
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00. to 18:00.
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Free: permanent collection
Price for exhibitions: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.50 euros
Featuring the world of George Sand

Musée du Vin
http://www.museeduvinparis.com/
Phone: 01 45 25 63 26
Rue des Eaux, 5, square Charles-Dickens - 75016 Paris
Métro: Passy
Bus: line 72
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 8.00 euros, includes 1 wine
History of French wine

Musée Zadkine
http://www.paris .fr/musees/zadkine/default.htm
Phone: 01 55 42 77 20
100 bis, rue d'Assas - 75006 Paris
Métro: Notre-Dame-des-Champs, RER 'B' Port-Royal
Bus: lines 58, 82, 83, 91
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros
Free: permanent collection

Museums in the Suburbian Paris

Giverny - Musée d'Art Américain
http://www.maag.org/
Phone: 02.32.51.94.65 - Fax 33 2 32 51 94 67
99, rue Claude Monet - 27620 Giverny
Driving: autoroute A13 to sortie 14, direction of Vernon, then Giverny
SNCF: by train from Gare Saint-Lazare direction Rouen, to Vernon station
Then bus or taxis , or rent bicycles at the station
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, ages 12-18, 3.00 euros,
Free: under age 12, 1st Sunday in month

Château de Versailles (See informations on History)
http://www.chateauversailles.fr/
Phone: 01 30 83 77 84 - Fax: 01 30 83 77 90
78000 Versailles
RER: line 'C' to Versailles-rive-gauche-château
SNCF train: from Gare Montparnasse to Versailles-Chantiers
SNCF train: from Gare Saint-Lazare to de Versailles-rive-droite
Bus: bus line 171 from Pont de Sévres Métro
Open: the park, from 8:00 to 19:00, November to March from 9:00 to 17:30
Open: the Château, from 9:00 to 18:30
Open: on Wednesdays until 22:00
Closed: Monday and certain holidays
Price: Château, 7.50 euros, reduced 5.30 euros, free under age 18
Price: King's apartment: extra 4.50 euros
Free: entry to the park
Grand and Petit Trianon: from 12:00 to 18:30, November to March from 12:00 to 17:30
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, free under age 18

Musée Ceramique de Sèvres

http://www.rmn.f r/fr/02musees/index-liste.html
Phone: 01 41 14 04 20 - Fax : 01 45 34 67 88
Place de la Manufacture - 92310 Sèvres
Métro: Pont de Sèvres
Bus: lines 169, 171, 179, from Pont de Sèvres
Tram 2: line La Défense to Issy-les-Mollineaux
Open: Wednesday to Monday from 10:00 to 17:00
Closed: Tuesday, and 1. Jan, 1 May, 1. Nov, 25 Dec
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros. All other Sundays, Price reduced
Free: under age 18, and for all on 1st Sunday in month

Château d'Ecouen
http://www.musee-renaissance.fr/
Phone: 01 34 38 38 50 - Fax: 01 34 38 38 78
Château d'Ecouen - 95440 Ecouen
SNCF train: from Gare du Nord, via Persan-Beaumont-Luzarches par Monsoult, to Ecouen-Ezanville; Then bus 269 to Mairie d'Ecouen
RER: 'D' via Orry la ville, to Garges Sarcelles, then bus 269 to Château d'Ecouen
Driving: 19 kms from Paris via autoroute A1, exit number 3, on N1 to Amiens Beauvais, then on N16, direction Chantilly
Open: from 9:45 to 12:30, and from 14:00 to 17:15
Closed: Tuesday, and 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Open: the park is open daily except 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Price: summer, 5.20 euros, reduced 3.80 euros for ages 18-25 and for everybody on Sunday
Price: winter, 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros for ages 18-25 and for everybody on Sunday

Fontainebleau
http://www.musee-cha teau-fontainebleau.fr/
Phone: 01 60 71 50 70 - Fax: 01 60 71 50 71
77300 Fontainebleau
SNCF: from Gare de Lyon. Ask for the train-bus ticket Fontainebleau-Avon
Driving: from Paris,take autoroute A6
Open: from October to May from 9:30 to 17:00, in summer to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday, and 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Garden: open daily, from 9:00 to 17:00, 18:00 or 19:00
Price: 5.50 euros, free under age 18, and free 1st Sunday in month

Magny les Hameaux
http://www.rmn.f r/fr/02musees/index-liste.html
Phone: 01 39 30 72 72 - Fax: 01 30 64 79 55
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - 78114 Magny-les-Hameaux
RER: 'C' to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines or RER 'B' to Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse
Driving: 25 km southwest from Paris
Open: from March to October from 10:30 to 18:30
Open: from October to March from10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:30
Closed: Tuesday and some public holidays
Price: 3.00 euros, reduced 2.30 euros

Rueil Malmaison
http://www.chateau-malmaison.fr/
Phone: 01 41 29 05 55 - Fax: 01 41 29 05 56
Château de Malmaison
avenue du Château - 92500 Rueil-Malmaison
RER: 'A' to La Défense-Grande Arche, then autobus 258 to Malmaison or Bois Préau
Open: from October to March, from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 17:15
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 17:45
Open: from April to Sept, from 10:00 to 17:45
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 18:15
Open: park, from 10:00 to 18:00, until 18:30 in summer
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 4.50 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, Sundays 3.00 euros for all
Free: for less than 18 years old

Musee des Antiquites St Germain-en-Laye
http://www.musee-anti quitesnationales.fr/
Phone: 01 39 10 13 00
Château - Place Charles de Gaulle, 78000 Saint-;Germain-en-Laye
RER: line 'A' to Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Open: from Wednesday to Monday, from 9:00 to 17:15
Open: weekends, and May-October, from 10:00 to 18:15
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros, on Sunday 2.60 euros for all
Free: under age 18

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Top 20 Paris Restaurants

I just found a nice list of very nice Paris restaurants.
http://www.parisnotes.com/restaurant/parisrestaurant.html Some of the restaurants
are in the 16th arrondissement, by our apartment.

In the mood for tasting: Astrance src="http://www.parisnotes.com/restaurant/astrance.jpg" width="180" align="right"
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4 Rue Beethoven, 16th, Paris. Tel: (1) 40 50 84 40. Closed Sat.-Mon. Average €150.

It's famously hard to get a reservation at Astrance, where chef Pascal Barbot
has created a contemporary French cooking style that relies on purity of flavor
rather than fat. His multi-course tasting menu for €150 leaves you feeling surprisingly
sprightly thanks to Barbot's instinctive sense of balance. Dishes rely on textures
and colors as much as flavors, frequently drawing on Asian ingredients such as miso
(in lacquered eggplant) or lemongrass and chili pepper (in a palate-cleansing sorbet).
The dining room is sober gray, the waiters serious about their work – the only thing
missing is an affordable lunch menu. Paris Notes Top 20 since Dec 05

In the mood for simplicity: La Table Lauriston hspace="10" src="http://www.parisnotes.com/restaurant/lauriston.jpg" width="180"
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129 rue Lauriston, 16th, Paris. Tel: (1) 47 27 00 07. Closed Sun. No lunch Sat.
Average €50.

If too many frothy sauces have left you longing for simplicity, you'll appreciate
Serge Barbey's straightforward yet sensual cooking at La Table de Lauriston. The
setting feels surprisingly warm for a restaurant in the business-minded 16th arrondissement,
with pink, orange and silver-striped walls and chairs in indigo and gold. The frequently
changing menu of bourgeois classics draws on seasonal ingredients, such as asparagus
from the Landes (in south-west France) and morels in spring, and his pan-fried steak
is gargantuan. Best value is the €25 limited-choice lunch menu, but that would mean
missing out on one of the most extravagant baba au rhums in town, doused in a choice
of three rums. Paris Notes Top 20 since Dec 05.

The list was compiled by Rosa Jackson for Paris
Notes.

Longtime Paris food writer Rosa Jackson writes a monthly restaurant column for
Paris Notes and runs Edible Paris (http://www.edible-paris.com/),
which provides personalized food itineraries and guided gourmet walking tours for
visitors to Paris. She also offers market tours and hands-on cooking classes in
Nice ( http://www.petitsfarcis.com/).

If anyone has tried any of these restaurants, let us know. -- Paris For Vacation
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Friday, July 21, 2006

The Chateau de versailles : A Masterpiece

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The Château de Versailles is one of the largest castles in the world with more than
2,000 windows, 700 rooms, 1250 fireplaces, 67 staircases and more than 1,800 acres
of park.

A bit of history about the man behind the castle. In 1623, King Louis XIII - father
of Louis XIV , the Sun King , built a hunting lodge, a little château of brick,
stone, and slate . it was then enlarged by Philibert Le Roy.

In 1661, Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin Mansart started embellishing the Versailles
castle. . From 1668 to 1670 was built a second building enveloping the old Versailles
castle with new even style stone façades. After Le Vau's death in 1670 , François
d'Orbay finished the work.

The Château de Versailles became the official residence of the Sun King and his
Court in 1682,replacing the Louvre and Saint-Germain Castles.When the king moved
into the Versailles castle in 1682 ,before the construction was finished, he insisted
that the castle was for the people, and that his home be open to one and all. Gates
of the Chateau stayed open all day long, and guards only checked for guns that could
endanger the king. From 1678 to 1684, the terrace of the new chateau was transformed
into the Hall of Mirrors, symbolizing the power of the Sun King. The construction
of North and South castle's Wings, the Orangery, the Stables, the Royal Chapel was
supervised by royal architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart .The last construction started
during the reign of Louis XIV is the Royal Chapel. It was completed in 1710 by Robert
de Cotte.

During the reign of King Louis XV, around 1770, architect Gabriel built the Royal
Opera of Versailles. He also transformed some of the facades of the Versailles Château
on town side, in line with the rules of Classical Architecture and created a new
colonnaded building. Finally, in 1820, a symmetrical pavilion was erected on the
other side of the Great Courtyard of the Versailles castle.

The Palace was grand and luxurious, and also quite expensive to maintain. Historians
estimate that maintaining the Palace, including the care and feeding of its staff
and the Royal Family, consumed as much as 25% of the entire national income of the
country of France. That figure, however, is highly debated.

Another way to look at this controversy over the costs of Versailles, is to consider
the benefits that France drew from this royal palace. Versailles, by locking the
nobles into a golden cage, effectively ended the periodical aristocratic coups and
rebellions that had plagued France for centuries. It also destroyed regionalism,
and enabled a centralization of the state, for which modern Frenchmen are still
thankful to Louis XIV. This result was well worth the money spent on Versailles,
money that, incidentally, enabled thousands of workers, masons, glaziers, plasterers,
gilders, painters, gardeners, fountainers, and so forth, to live for years without
worrying about feeding their families.

Last but not least, for all the controversies about the costs of Versailles, one
has never heard such controversies about the costs of, say, the pyramids of Egypt
or the Taj Mahal in India. Versailles, after all, should be taken just for what
it was meant to be from the start: a cultural statement.

Mansart also built during the reign of Louis XIV, in the place where was the former
village of Trianon, a marble Castle called The "Grand Trianon" or "Marble
Trianon".

Louis XV had Gabriel build a small castle : the "Petit Trianon".which
was offered to the Queen Marie Antoinette by the King Louis XVI when he acceded
to the throne.

The French Revolution stopped the building works in the Versailles Estate. The "King
of the French" Louis Philippe, transformed in 1837 the Chateau de Versailles
in a museum dedicated to "all the glories of France". Chateau of Versailles'
history galleries are the largest History Museum in the world (18,000 square meters)
The history of France is told through paintings and sculptures. Le Nôtre designed
the garden.

An average of eight million visitors discover this architectural and cultural masterpiece
every year!

I found a helpful web site in english : title="http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/" target="_blank">http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Website update

I've just updated a little bit of the website. I changed the menu bar and the background a little. The blog template has changed a little too, to match the rest of the website. Unfortunately, Blogger seems to be having some problems doing a full update of the site. It seems to work for adding new postings, though.

Jason

Friday, July 07, 2006

Some information for your trip in Paris

Are you going to Paris soon? Here are some ideas to help you plan your trip:

Clubs in Paris

La Scène
Le Red Light
VIP Room
Barrio Latino
Le Manray
Folie's Pigalle
Le Six Seven
La Loco
Queen
Bus Paladium

Bars in Paris

Restaurants in Paris

Museums in Paris

Centre Georges Pompidou
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée d'Orsay

Things To Do In Paris, France

Sightseeing In Paris, France

Montparnasse
Place de la Concorde
Versaille
Montmartre

Travel in Paris

Eurostar to Paris
Metro in Paris
RER in Paris
CDG Roissy
Orly

Paris operas

EuroDisney Paris

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

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