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musée Grévin
 
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1 st day variant
 Louvre museum

2nd day variant
Visite de la Tour Eiffel

3rd day variant
chateau de Versailles
Second 1/2 day:Modern Paris from 19th to 20th Century

The tour will start over again at the Opera at the 6th red bus stop

By crossing the rue de la Paix the bus goes through la place Vendôme, known for the Ritz hotel on the left, the grand jeweller Boucheron , Cartier and the colonne Vendôme an order set up by Napoleon the 1st.In 1805,the day after Austerlitz that the Museum director  :Vivant Denon, offered the Emperor the set up, with the canons(guns) taken from the Austrians a commemorative column from the campaign dedicated to the grand Army. Apart from possible traffical problems, you won’t have any time to admire(once on the) 42 meters of bronze that are surmounted by the Emperor’s statue.

From the Cordue place, you will walk up the famous Avenue des Champs Elysées. This avenue is probably among the world’s most beautiful and longest urban view : 7km long, it starts at L’arc de Triomphe of Carroussel and goes through the Tuileries garden. L’obélisque de Louxor(the Louxor obelisk) was punctuated at Cordue, the Champs Elysées continue it until The (Triumphal Arc)l’Arc de Triomphe de L’Etoile. It goes past the Grande Armée avenue, the Général de Gaule avenue, it even crosses the Seine at the Neuilly bridge and ends with the Defence avenue at l’Arche de Défense.

The  red busses will drive you to L’arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile, 7th
red bus stop.

We advise you to stop at l’Arc de Triomphe. Done by Jean François Chalgrin, it is a monument filled with symboles. It is Napoleon the 1st who wanted it to be built in memory of the Grand Army and all of his Napoleonian victories are on this Triumphal Arc(Arc de Triumphe). In the memory of all the lost soldiers of the heartbreaking first World War who dies for France an unknown soldier rests since 1921. L’arc de Triomphe still rings with its nation’s joy when the war stopped in 1918 and 1944. It is a place of pilgrimage, it is a place of tribute to the nation and it’s lost children,who died for their homeland.It is also, with the four high relifs to which the volontary departure of the famous Marseillaise de Rude, the powerfull expression which shows just how attatched the French people are to their Republic. It is finally a great observation spot from where one can easily appreciate the view from the Cordue place to the Grande Arche de la Défense.With a bit of luck, you might even be able to watch the sun  setting itself in the Arc de triomphe’s axe, once or twice a year during the Spring and Autumn equinoxes.

If you are not too tired after this and that you still have some time left, you could go down the Champs Elysées an join the 8th
red bus stop  at the same level as the Grand palace. Apart from the avenue,  you can also admire the prestigious buildings occupied by some well known ensigns :  The Publicis building(1975)who is most recent at 131, the Parisian Tourism Office at 127,  the Lido,one of the world’s most famous Cabarets at 116, not to mention Mr.Fouquet’s famous café at 99, Guerlain at 68,  Virgin Megastore at 56-60, as the remarkable hotel de la  Païva at n°25 and the hotel numbered 15(one of Figaro’s old headquarters).

From the 8th
red bus stop, the red busses will drive you to Trocadéro, by passing infront of the grand Palace and the Palace of Discovery(palais de la découverte) recently restored, you will once again cross the Seine  with the Alexandre III bridge,  you will then have a glimpse of the Invalide’s dome covered with gold and then you will re-cross the quais rive gauche, you will rejoin the Tocradéro where we advise you to get off at the 9th red bus stop.

Built for the 1937’s universal exposition,the Tocadéro Palace, shelters museums and aquariums.
The esplanade baptised Place des droits de l’homme  offers a magnificent overview on Paris, the Eiffel tower and the champs de Mars who are in front of it.


At this point of our journey, we offer you once again a new alternative : you can either visist the Eiffel Tower, Paris’ most international monument or, you can continue your road to visit the Invalides and the Rodin museum.

To get to the Eiffel Tower, one can simply walk across the bridge or re-take the red bus and get off at the 1st
red bus stop.

Formation Engineer, Eiffel founded and developped his company who was specialised in metalic framework, of which the Eiffel Tower is living proof. The project of making a 300meter tall tower was created for the universal exposition of 1989.  After a few satirical tracts or other articles published during the whole of 1886,the work had barely started when the 14th February 1887, artists protested. The battery assemblage started July the 1st,1887 and ended 21 months later.  The first half on the 20th Century in Europe was pronounced by the Industrial Revolution, in which the metalic expansion played a very impotant role. Built in iron, the Tower is protected from oxydation by many covers of paint, as  a pledge of it’s  perenity. Through her constant artificail lightings,  the Tower has always inherited the most innovative lighting system. In 1981, the society in charge of running the Eiffel Tower started the biggest part on the Tower, since they started building...”

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr


If you prefer to continue your visit with the Invalides and the Rodin museum, then we advise you to re-take the red bus at the 9th
red bus stop.You will cross the Seine,go past the Eiffel Tower’s foot that you will bypass so that you can go down to the 2nd stop : Av Joseph Bouvard. Unless you’d rather admire the numerous “modern styled” hotels of the Bourdonnais Avenue, you can walk back up the Champs de Mars gardens to Military school( a new occasion to take   a photo of the Eiffel Tower), then join the Tourville avenue, so that you can closely admire the Invalides’ blazing golden dome and finally go back up the Invalides Boulevard until the rue de Varennes to find the Rodin Museum.Most of the incredible sculptor’s work is in the garden of a certain Hotel. If it wasn’t for the Invalides’ dome’s omnipresence ,his neighbour, you’d think that you are at thousand miles from Paris.
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