Secret Paris
By: Jacques Garance and Maud Ratton ; photos, Stéphanie Rivoal
Contributors: Ratton, Maud, author; Rivoal, Stéphanie, photographer
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Local guides by local people; Local guides by local people
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9782361950743
Subjects: Guidebooks
Description: TRAVEL & HOLIDAY GUIDES. A priest who blesses animals, winemaking firefighters, a tree in a church, an inverted phallus at a well-known entrance, an atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l'Est, a real Breton lighthouse near Montparnasse, unsuspected traces of former brothels, a patron saint of motorists, royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard, the presentation of Christ's crown of thorns, a prehistoric merry-go-round, a sundial designed by Dali, war-wounded palm trees, bullet holes at the ministry, religious plants in a priest's garden, a mysterious monument to Freemasonry at the Champ-de-Mars, a solid gold sphere in parliament, a Chinese temple in a parking lot, the effect of the Bievre river on Parisian geography, a blockhouse in the Bois de Boulogne ...For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible.
Notes: Includes indexes.