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This was my third trip to Paris and I thought I knew a lote about the "city of lights" but then I found this guide!
The amount of usable information is far more than any other travel guide I have come across with excellent reference material and entertaining little stories to have on hand while I was there. I followed the suggested itinerary while strolling along the breath taking streets of Paris and found it to be in a very logical order. Many guides have out of date information but this one was dead on and current in all areas but the biggest help was the black and white pictures that made it so easy to find paticular paintings in the Louvre. Making it the first time I have not found myself lost and never locating the paintings I was interested in seeing. Its like having a friend in paris! Take it from someone who has been there, I wish I had this guide all three trips and from now on I will take it because it holds many, many trips worth of information. I absolutley love Paris, its an amazing place and thanks to this guide I realise there is many years worth of new Paris discoveries ahead of me!!!! I would recomend this guide even if it was the most expensive out there, it really made my trip worth every penny!

Paris The Ultimate Guide 2010 Overview

Massive Amounts of Information
This guide is set up to give you the maximum amount of information while visiting Paris. The information, whether it is just a brief description of a famous site or an in-depth study, is right at your fingertips. Over 900 pages of information.

Not just the monuments
Paris the Ultimate Guide also contains information amount significant events in the history of Paris and famous People that helped shape the city.

Excerpt:

Grand Palais

The Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the Pont Alexandre III were all building projects for the 1900 Universal Exhibition (the precursor to the World’s Fair). The Grand Palais is currently the largest ironwork and glass structure of its kind in the world.
The Grand Palais is a free exhibition hall displaying many different events from car shows to aviation to fashion. There is also a science museum and an event hall in addition to the exposition hall. The main gallery is a permanent contemporary art site.
In June of 1993 a rivet fell from the roof barely missing a visitor. The Grand Palais had suffered foundation problems from the drop in Paris’ ground water, which resulted in the southern part of the Nave to sag by 6 inches…
The great bronze horses that grace the outside were removed and restored as well. Georges Recipon designed the quadrigas. The group on the Seine side represent Harmony Triumphing over Discord and on the Champs-Elysées side Immortality outstripping Time. They were returned to the corners of the Grand Palais in 2003 where they once again leap into the air adding life and vibrance to the building.

Grand Palais in a Nutshell

Built: 1900
Architect: Charles Girault (overall coordinator), Henri Deglane, Albert Louvet, Albert Thomas
During World War I it was converted to a hospital for soldiers
During World War II the Nazis used it as a truck depot and to exhibit Nazi propaganda
8,500 tons of steel used in its construction
There is a major police station in the basement

Metro Station: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Champs-Elysées, Clemenceau

An interesting story

A first kiss in the Grand Palais
"This goes back to before the 1980s. I was a shy, rather podgy teenager. One evening, my father, who worked in artist copyright protection, took me to the opening of the Fiac at the Grand Palais. There I was, under the glass roof, strolling around proudly, with a glass of champagne, getting an eyeful of some pretty strange exhibits! Stuff I'd never seen before: contemporary art. It was inventive, insolent, colourful, forthright: there were ideas, gaiety and joie de vivre everywhere.
In the middle of one of the aisles, a young woman wearing plenty of make-up but precious little else, was sitting astride a chair and - for a nominal fee - offering passers-by a kiss. This was strictly art of course…
Now that I was a contemporary art cognoscenti, and, probably with help from the champagne, I plucked up the courage and decided there were worse ways to use my pocket money. This turned out to be some experience: no ordinary Hollywood job. This was a proper French kiss, with a deep, enterprising tongue. The whole capped by a gorgeous smile.
It was also my first ever 'real' kiss. Long live art at the Grand Palais!"

Yves Castelain - March 25 2009
Director of the Castel1 agency

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Customer Reviews

What a PERFECT name for this book! - Alice Jane -
Paris The Ultimate Travel Guide: Wow, what a PERFECT name for this book!! Thank you Mr. Clarke for sharing this wonderful book with the world!! I have been to Paris several times. Each time buying several travel guides (in the book store) because there was not one that would give me all the information I was looking for.... until now!!!! If this book was in print form, it would weigh a ton!! Thank goodness for the kindle book. Oh yes and I would carry my travel guides with me and they did weigh me down. Never before has there been a book that offers everything that I look for all in one book. I also appreciate that this book is for 2010 so pricing for museums and attractions are included. Thank you again and I would recommend this book to anyone who is going to Paris whether it's your first time or you go every year. I promise you will find many things that you never knew before about Paris and the famous people of Paris and so much more!

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