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America’s #1 bestselling travel series

Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.

• More annually updated guides than any other series
• 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides
• Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries
• Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design

You’ll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer’s. It’s like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go—they’ve done the legwork for you, and they’re not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer’s Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You’d be lost without us!

Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer’s Paris features gorgeous full-color photos of the sights and experiences that await you. It covers all the traditional tourist favorites but also lets you in on local finds, neighborhood hangouts, and little-known gems.

In case you’re worried about the city’s high prices, we’ve included tips on finding the best airfare, plus a host of affordable hotels and restaurants. And if money is no object, we’ll show you the best places to spend it, from the Ritz to the hippest new boutique hotels, from grand dining rooms serving classic haute cuisine to the latest cutting-edge restaurants.

You’ll rely on Frommer’s for a complete guide to the city’s sights, from the Louvre to Notre-Dame. We’ve included suggested itineraries plus a chapter of detailed walking tours that will help you get acquainted with the most intriguing neighborhoods. We’ll help you find the city’s best pastries, enjoy the best after-dark diversions, and shop til you drop; then we’ll take you on side trips to Versailles, Chartres, Fontainebleau, Giverny and Disneyland Paris. It’s all here in one easy-to-use guide, complete with a color fold-out map and color map of the Metro.

From the Back Cover
Frommer’s. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• Ways to explore the City of Light from the top of La Tour Eiffel to the infamous catacombs.

• Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your time and what’s not.

• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.

• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

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Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Paris!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Paris provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guide book.

•Fodor’s Paris features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Paris.

•Experience Paris like a local! Fodor’s Paris features choices for every traveler, highlighting ways to dazzle the senses with mouth-watering food; how best to explore the city’s magical neighborhoods, magnificent museums, and spectacular gardens; where to laze the day away at a café; and where to find the city’s best shopping.

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

•Pull-out map and 8-page color insert

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

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This book combines all of Angelika Taschen s recommendations for Paris hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars into one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their Parisian sojourn will never have a dull moment. From the ultra-hot Colette fashion concept store to Tom Ford s secret hideaway to Hemingway s favorite brasserie, all of the best insider tips are gathered together between these covers so that when you hop out from under yours, you ll have plenty of exciting things on your agenda.

Highlights include:

Decorative ceramics shop Astier de Villatte
The ultra-modern Comme des Garçons perfume and candle boutique
Ladurée, the best macaroons in the city
Ma Bourgogne restaurant on the beautiful Place des Vosges
Classic bistro Allard that has hardly changed in 70 years
Left bank restaurant La Palette, a favorite of Picasso and Braque
Brasserie Lipp, where Hemingway ate the eat herrings he wrote about in A Moveable Feast
The ultra-luxurious Ritz hotel on elegant Place Vendôme
The cozy and cute Hôtel Bourg Tibourg in the Marais
Hôtel Verneuil in St. Germain-des-Prés opposite the former residence of Serge Gainsbourg
The quintessentially French Hôtel Duc de Saint-Simon

About the Author
Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

About the photographer:
Swiss-born Vincent Knapp (1957-2007) lived and worked in Paris for over two decades as a free-lance photographer, notably for Conde Nast magazines such as Architectural Digest, Vogue, and The World of Interiors.

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The first guidebook you write yourself.

Paris the City of Light is a beacon for travelers searching for romance culture cuisine shopping and more. Sitting on the steps of the Sacre Couer or in a café on the Seine record your inspirations and impressions in the Moleskine City Notebook Paris. The Key Map summarizes the overall city layout showing the sequence and location of the 12 zone maps and the 4 maps of the city center enlargement. Map of the metro system and list of stations plus the alphabetical street index of the zone maps. Blank pages for jotting down notes and recording your thoughts stories and memories. 32 removable sheets for loose notes and exchanging messages. 12 translucent sticky sheets for tracing your routes and sharing itineraries. A 96-page tabbed archive for collecting everything that matters most and keeping it at your fingertips. The first 6 tabs are printed; the others await your personalization with the enclosed adhesive labels.

Each pocket sized Moleskine City Notebook is thread bound and has a cardboard bound cover with rounded corners acid free paper three bookmarks an elastic closure and an expandable inner pocket that contains the Moleskine history.

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Vacationing abroad with children is a unique experience and Around Paris with Kids helps to make it unforgettable. Local author Emily Emerson LeMoing has handpicked 68 fun and fabulous things to do around Paris with kids in tow. You’ll look at old favorites in a new light, from………

•Terrific ideas for family days, from museums to puppet shows
•Kid-friendly snack spots and restaurant suggestions included with each activity
•Themed directories let parents plan their days with kids’ special interests in mind
•Insider tips help parents make the best use of their time while saving money and stress
•Paris-specific flip art, trivia, and a chapter of games keep kids entertained en route and in line
•All attractions include addresses, phone numbers, Web sites, admission prices, and age-appropriateness

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“‘Time Out Paris stands out for its hip addresses’ - The New York Times”
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The eternally beautiful grande dame of European cities, Paris is a happy marriage of ancient and modern. It’s at once resolutely in step with the modern world — mushrooming public WiFi coverage, superb public transportation, major architectural projects in the pipeline — and as seductively romantic and gloriously historic as ever: the flagstones that the guillotine once stood on are still in place; the palace of kings that houses the world’s largest museum, the Louvre, is still a marvel to behold. Time Out Paris goes back to the city’s roots and monitors its new shoots — the plans to cut traffic in the city center by 75%, the new “boat Métro” service on the Seine, and new developments in every sphere of its world-leading fashion, arts, and culinary scenes. Independent, intelligent reviews cover more than 300 restaurants, cafés, and bars.

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With Access Paris, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Champs Elysées, and Montmartre are at your fingertips.

Access Paris has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you’re headed.

Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:

• Hotels
• Restaurants
• Attractions
• Shopping sights
• Parks and Outdoor Spaces

Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss.

Access is your indispensable walk-around guide to Paris. Our writers, who live in and love the city, will lead you by the hand down the remarkable streets, sharing the unforgettable sights and pointing out the undiscovered gems and all the majestic landmarks that only Paris has to offer.

About the Author

With the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26, Richard Saul Wurman began the singular passion of his life: that of making information understandable. A holder of both M. Arch. & B. Arch. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, he has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Graham Fellowships & two Chandler Fellowships. In 1991, Richard Saul Wurman received the Kevin Lynch Award from MIT for his creation of the ACCESS travel guides. In 1994, he was named a Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland & awarded a Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. In 1995, he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Art Center College of Design & was Chairman of Graphic Design & Product/Industrial Design of the1995 Presidential Design Awards.

Richard Saul Wurman continues to be a regular consultant to major corporations in matters relating to the design & understanding of information. He is married to novelist Gloria Nagy, has 4 children & lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Walks include:
Notre Dame
The Eiffel Tower
Grands Boulevards
Centre Pompidou
Le Marais

About the Author
Natasha Edwards is a freelance travel writer who lives and works in Paris.

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Bon appétit! Ina Garten takes you to the City of Light with this handsome journal–the perfect companion to chronicle that memorable meal, cheese shop, bottle of wine, or epicurean journey.

160 pages (partially guided, lined), 5 x 7 inches, perfect bound with an elastic band closure and removable belly band

From the Inside Flap
Bestselling and enormously popular Potter author INA GARTEN takes you to the city of light with a lovely travel journal inspired by her new cookbook, Barefoot in Paris–a perfect complement to Ina’s other Potter Style products. Use the gorgeous travel journal to record that memorable meal or bottle of wine, or to chronicle your own epicureal journey.

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“…this one gets down to business…it packs witty writing, abundant maps (detailed neighborhood views and a citywide pullout) and informative photos into 288 pocket-sized pages.” — San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2007

“…Encounter guides…discreet in size, but generous enough on page count to provide a fuller city experience minus the hefty guidebook load.” — Sherman’s Travel, April 2007

“…a complete city guide boiled down to its essences, a sort of text-messaged guidebook with photos and quotes from locals geared to a savvy weekend visitor.” –Chicago Tribune, August 5, 2007

Sherman’s Travel, April 2007
‘…Encounter guides…discreet in size, but generous enough on page count to provide a fuller city experience minus the hefty guidebook load.’

WHAT WILL YOUR PARIS ENCOUNTER BE?
…aperos at a pavement cafe deep in the heart of medieval Marais (p114)
…seductive strolls along the Promenade Plantee at twilight (p15)
…arguing about modern art in the Centre Pompidou (p22)
…the lights of the city twinkling beneath the Eiffel Tower after dark (p10)
…catching the last metro home after a night out in Belleville(p102)
…picking up charcuterie and wine at the Marche Bastille (p129)

DISCOVER TWICE THE CITY IN HALF THE TIME…
…full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation
…our discerning author recommends the very best neighborhoods, sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment
…unique itineraries and highlights help you make the most of a short break
…local experts reveal Paris’ secrets: from the Louvre’s documentary maker on the best places to view art to a fashion designer’s shopping tips

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