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Deciding where to stay in Paris and finding the right area according to your visiting goals and tastes can make or break the success of your stay in the French capital city. We usually devote a fair amount of time to accommodation search and that's important but finding out about location and what it has to offer should be the first step of your planning.

No matter what your visiting goals are, romance, shopping, travel with kids or partying, Paris has something to offer to everyone. However, each Paris area has its own ambiance and characteristics. If you are in Paris for romantic and relaxing holidays you might not want to find yourself in the middle of party hard Paris with loud neighborhoods until early in the morning.

Paris is divided into twenty areas (arrondissement in French) split by Seine river. From a tourist point of view there are five main areas where to stay in Paris. Louvre area (1st 2nd arrondissement) Marais area (3rd and 4th arrondissement) Latin Quarter (5th 6th 7th arrondissement) Champs Elysees area (8th 9th 16th arrondissement) and Montmartre (9th 18th arrondissement).

Paris for great shopping: Champs Elysees area (8th 9th 16th arrondissement) and Marais Quarter (3rd and 4th arrondissement)

Major luxury and fashion brands have stores and boutiques around Champs Elysees Avenue (8th arrondissement), this is the place to be if you want to explore latest fashion trends from leading luxury brands. The area itself is quite upmarket beautifully renovated Haussmann style buildings with plenty of lights glitters and style especially around Christmas time. A little further from Champs Elysees Avenue on Haussmann Boulevard (9th arrondissement) you will find two of Paris department stores, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps.

Other area of interest for shoppers in Paris is Marais Quarter (3rd and 4th arrondissement). Le Marais became the place to be for trend setting young fashion designers eager to make themselves a name in the industry. You'll find plenty of showrooms and boutiques to satisfy your shopping needs.

Paris for museum and art lovers: Le Louvre area (1st 2nd arrondissement)

There isn't a specific area in Paris where art galleries and museums are located. You will find them spread over most Paris areas, same for monuments and historical buildings. The best thing to do is to stay around 1st arrondissement near Le Louvre museum. It is a central location where to stay in Paris. Major Paris museums and monuments can easily be accessed from there with public transports. Le Louvre museum itself will at least take you a day to visit properly and right across Seine River at walking distance you'll find Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral and Orsay museum.

Paris for romantics and lovers: Montmartre (9th 18th arrondissement) and Marais Quarter (3rd and 4th arrondissement)

What is romantic is quite subjective but Montmartre area (18th arrondissement), a French village like area on Paris heights, is a charming place to stay in Paris. The old Marais quarter (3rd and 4th arrondissement) also works a treat. You will find quiet paved streets on side of small parks surrounded with middle age buildings with all the necessary cozy cafes for the perfect face to face moment.

Paris to party and enjoy nightlife the French way: Latin Quarter (5th 6th arrondissement) and area between Marais and Oberkampf Street (3rd 11th)

The lively student area of Latin Quarter has plenty of fun places to have a great time at night, Oberkampf street bordering Marais quarter is also very trendy with lounge bars pulsing cafes and dance floors.

There are other places in Paris where you could stay but if you are a first time visitor try to pick one of the areas mentioned above. Unless you are a seasoned traveler and know what you are doing try to avoid 12th 13th 14th 15th 17th 20th arrondissement. They are a little out of the way and not always safe at night.

Enjoy your stay.

John Benedict is a Paris passionate. He writes and reviews about Paris tourism industry to share his enthusiasm about the French capital city.

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No Quarter $15.99 In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate fort, pack the tunnel with explosives, and blow a hole in the enemy lines. Then a specially trained division of African American infantry would spearhead a powerful assault to exploit the breach created by the explosion. Thus, in one decisive action, the Union would marshal its mastery of technology and resources, as well as demonstrate the superior morale generated by the Army of the Potomac’s embrace of emancipation. At stake was the chance to drive General Robert E. Lee’s Army of North Virginia away from the defense of the Confederate capital of Richmond–and end the war. The result was something far different. The attack was hamstrung by incompetent leadership and political infighting in the Union command. The massive explosion ripped open an immense crater, which became a death trap for troops that tried to pass through it. Thousands of soldiers on both sides lost their lives in savage trench warfare that prefigured the brutal combat of World War I. But the fighting here was intensified by racial hatred, with cries on both sides of “No quarter!” In a final horror, the battle ended with the massacre of wounded or surrendering Black troops by the Rebels–and by some of their White comrades in arms. The great attack ended in bloody failure, and the war would be prolonged for another year. With gripping and unforgettable depictions of battle and detailed character portraits of soldiers and statesmen, No Quarter compellingly re-creates in human scale an event epic in scope and mind-boggling in its cost of life. In using the Battle of the Crater as a lens through which to focus the political and social ramifications of the Civil War–particularly the racial tensions on both sides of the struggle–Richard Slotkin brings to readers a fresh perspective on perhaps the most consequential period in American history. From the Hardcover edition.

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French Quarter $22.91 In 1998, we took our first trip to New Orleans as a couple, and the people we met there made an amazing impression. They were so open, so honest, so real. And the French Quarter is like no other neighborhood in America. What other district is known more by the behavior of its visitors than its inhabitants? The people who live and work in the Quarter have a story to tell, and it was our goal to tell that story without descending into stock New Orleans clichs. On the drive home from New Orleans, as two playwrights in a car with sixteen hours to kill, we soon realized that we had to create an audio play about this unique and boisterous city and her people. As audio theatre producers, we envisioned thirteen half-hour episodes. The characters were inspired by people we met on the trip; new friends. The situations came from our imagination, driven by stories these friends told us about their lives. In 1999, a cast of fifty talented actors helped us make our dream come true, bringing French Quarter to life in thirteen episodes, just as we had hoped. In moments of humor and great drama, they made our characters into people, as they told our tale. Within a year, it was picked up by National Public Radio for the nationally popular NPR Playhouse series, where it aired twice. This novel contains every scene in the seven-CD set, plus bonus scenes that had to be cut from the audio series for time. It also incorporates narration that audio theatre typically omits. If you are already a fan of the audio series, we welcome you to this book. If you've never heard it, visit us on the Web at www.minds-ear.org, and consider picking up the CDs as well.

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Latin Quarter Walking Tour, Paris $20 The Latin Quarter Walk takes you through the heart of Parisian history and touches on everything from Roman ruins to the great intellectuals of France. See two of the worlds most famous cathedrals, one of the worlds most famous universities and Paris most beautiful gardens. Latin Quarter is where Paris began many centuries ago and even till today, continues to be one of the most popular areas of the city.

Treason in the Northern Quarter $42 In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote region, and now there were rumors that the war-weary population harbored traitors conspiring to help the Spanish invade. In response, rebel leaders arrested a number of vagrants and peasants, put them on the rack, and brutally tortured them until they confessed and named their principals--a witch-hunt that eventually led to a young Catholic lawyer named Jan Jeroenszoon. Treason in the Northern Quarter tells how Jan Jeroenszoon, through great personal courage and faith in the rule of law, managed to survive gruesome torture and vindicate himself by successfully arguing at trial that the authorities remained subject to the law even in times of war. Henk van Nierop uses Jan Jeroenszoon's exceptional story to give the first account of the Dutch Revolt from the point of view of its ordinary victims--town burghers, fugitive Catholic clergy, peasants, and vagabonds. For them the Dutch Revolt was not a heroic struggle for national liberation but an ordinary dirty war, something to be survived, not won. An enthralling account of an unsuspected story with surprising modern resonance, Treason in the Northern Quarter presents a new image of the Dutch Revolt, one that will fascinate anyone interested in the nature of revolution and civil war or the fate of law during wartime.

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