Saint Lazare, Haussmann, Notre Dame de Lorette – 4 appartments

Paris is bustling and lively around the grand boulevards, the department stores with a real neighborhood atmosphere. The Opera Garnier offers a sumptuous architectural backdrop to this area once dotted with rich town houses, large gardens, guinguettes and theaters.

On the rooves of the Opera house, beekeepers prepare Parisian honey. Today, we can saunter between cafes, have lunch in the large airy brasseries, or be entertained at the cinema or in one of the old boulevard theaters that have withstood the test of time. A little further up “New Athens” around Notre Dame de Lorette welcomes passers-by who love the pretty surprises that can be found between the shops, restaurants and trendy cafes.

Once a place of cabarets and sex shops, the place has kept only its town houses and neo-classical style buildings, home to Dumas, Berloiz or Delacroix in the era. Take this opportunity to have a peek at no. 28 of the little Place Saint-Georges: the charm of an impressive romantico-Gothic style house has been entirely preserved.