Around and About Paris, Volume 1: From the Dawn of Time to the Eiffel Tower (Arrondissements 1 - 7) 
by Thirza Vallois 

Around and About Paris : From the Guillotine to the Bastille Opera : The 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th Arrondissements (Around and About Paris, 2nd Ed) 
by Thirza Vallois 
Vallois, a 30-year resident of Paris.

Around and About Paris, Volume 3: New Horizons: Haussmann's Annexation (Arrondissements 13 - 20) 
by Thirza Vallois 
 

318  paris sight 
 84  paris sight seeing 
 45  sight in paris 
 31  paris france sight 
 30  in paris see sight 

396  paris tourist attraction 
 335  paris tourist information 
 216  paris tourist 
 160  paris tourist office 
 150  tourist attraction in paris 
 140  paris tourist map 
 108  paris tourist guide 
 76  paris france tourist attraction 
 73  tourist attraction in paris france 
 73  paris tip tourist 
 65  paris tourist board 
 62  paris tourist site 
 60  paris tourist info 
 43  data expenditure paris tourist 
 43  expenditure paris tourist 
 43  paris france tourist information 
 27  information paris tourist visitor 
 25  paris tourist bureau 

Paris Tourist Sights

Paris : Buildings and Monuments : An Illustrated Guide With over 850 Drawings and Neighborhood Maps by Michel Poisson, John Goodman (Translator)

Few cities can approach the quality and number of Paris's distinguished buildings and streetscapes. But if you go there to find those treasures, you'll miss most of them if you lack a good guidebook. Michel Poisson is a Parisian architect who spent the last several years sketching the city's buildings and urban spaces, locating them on maps of his own devising, and providing the requisite data and commentary.

 His book is organized by arrondissements, the city's traditionally defined districts, and each entry includes a short building description or comment, a freehand drawing, an address, date, and the names of the closest metro station, the architect, and the patron. The last is a nice touch usually lacking in architectural guides. Nor is that the only unusual element of this book, which is as singular as a Citroën deux chevaux. It is larger and heavier than a normal guidebook--6.5 inches by 9.5 inches, 464 pages, and about 3 pounds--which may limit its portability on the field. The hand-drawn maps are a bit funky, and the illustrations vary from rich and full of character when showing older buildings to simplistic and inexpressive in the case of some newer projects.

 Still, it's an amazing effort for one person: 200 maps, 535 entries, 650 drawings, and all the research and prose that goes with them. Poisson is a savvy urban explorer, and he steers readers not only to obvious sights such as the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, and Notre-Dame but also to scores of old and new places that you might never find on your own. And while it's easy to get disoriented in this complex city, you won't lose your place in the book--it thoughtfully features a bound-in red ribbon bookmark. --John Pastier

Paris : Buildings and Monuments : An Illustrated Guide With over 850 Drawings and Neighborhood Maps
by Michel Poisson, John Goodman (Translator)
 

The Flaneur : A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White

If a place is best known by its particulars, then Edmund White is an expert on Paris. Fortunately, he's generous with his secrets: he reveals a Paris not found in any other guide in this first book in the Writer and the City series. White's Paris is seen on foot, as a flâneur, a stroller who aimlessly loses himself in a crowd, going wherever curiosity leads him and collecting impressions along the way. Paris is the perfect city for the flâneur, as every quartier is beautiful and full of rich and surprising delights. But this is no typical tour of monuments and museums; it is much more intimate and surprising. As a flâneur of Paris for 16 years, White knows where to find the very best of everything--silver, sheets, plum slivovitz. He can tell you where to get Tex-Mex surrounded by a dance rehearsal hall, where to rent an entire castle for a party, or even where to get Skippy peanut butter. He eschews the pearl-gray city built by Napoleon and roams the places where the real vitality lives, the teaming quartiers inhabited by Arabs and Asians and Africans, the strange corners, the markets where you can find absolutely anything in this city that accommodates all tastes. White's Paris is a place rich in history with a passion for novelty and distractions. So a walk through the Jewish ghetto leads to the history of the little-known Musée Nissim de Camondo, with its impressive collection of Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, created by a family of Jewish bankers ultimately killed in the Holocaust. White shares other favorite and obscure museums, such as the Hôtel du Lauzun, where writers like Balzac and Charles Baudelaire and the painter Edouard Manet met for long evenings of music and hashish-induced hallucinations. Reminiscences in Montmartre reach back to the thriving jazz culture created by African Americans in the years between the world wars and include stories about Josephine Baker, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin. While White may ignore Notre Dame, he has fascinating tidbits to share about kings and queens and their heirs who still fight for the throne. The variety of Paris, White remarks, is matched by the voraciousness and passion of its people. With his own remarkable flair, he reveals a thriving and alluring city where tourists rarely tread. --Lesley Reed