Paris Links
This is a list of links to various sites related to Paris, for those of you who like to go straight to the source for information. Most of them offer English text in addition to French, if they aren't in English already.
Parisian and French Sites in No Particular Order |
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| Ville de Paris | … | the City of Paris |
| Musée du Louvre | … | the Louvre Museum |
| Opéra National de Paris | … | the Paris National Opera (Bastille and Garnier) |
| Tour Eiffel | … | the Eiffel Tower |
| La Sorbonne | … | the Sorbonne (French only), part of the Université de Paris |
| Maxim’s | … | Maxim’s restaurant |
| Météo-Paris | … | detailed weather info for Paris |
| Printemps | … | the Printemps department store |
| Moulin Rouge | … | the Moulin Rouge nightclub |
| Musée d’Orsay | … | the Orsay Museum |
| JC Decaux | … | JC Decaux, makers of the Sanisette |
| La Grande Arche | … | the Grande Arche (French only, fairly messy) |
| SNCF | … | the French National Railways |
| RATP | … | the Independent Paris Transport Authority (the Métro) |
| Champs-Élysées | … | (unofficial) avenue of the Champs-Élysées |
| République Française | … | French government main entrance (French only, of course!) |
| Vedettes du Pont-Neuf | … | a Paris excursion-boat company |
| Centre Pompidou | … | the Pompidou Center (a/k/a Beaubourg) |
| Bibliothèque Nationale | … | the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library) |
| Fat Tire Bike Tours | … | bicycle tours all over Paris |
| Discover France | … | comprehensive information on French art and culture |
Note: These links point to sites outside my control. I cannot be responsible for the content of the sites to which the links lead, nor should the fact that I provide links here be construed as approval or endorsement of those sites. I try to keep all links up to date; please apprise me of any links that appear to be broken.
Many French sites are afflicted by the stupidity of the average French web designer, who still believes that clogging a site with Flash and Shockwave animations, Java, animated Gifs, "web-safe" colors, and other anachronisms actually improves the ergonomy, utility, and aesthetics of a site. The links to these badly-designed sites are in gray to emphasize their unfriendly design. Don't be surprised if you have to wade through all kinds of garbage just to get into such a site, and don't be surprised if the site is unreadable or unusable once you've finally managed to enter it. I've been trying to bring French webmasters up to speed with the rest of the world for years, but they clearly don't care, for the most part. If a site can't even be entered without Flash, it won't appear on the list above at all.
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Last modified on April 29, 2010
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