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Paris 7th quarter: where art and culture shine forth.
Sites to visit among France’s finest museums and monuments:
Musée Auguste Rodin
 77, rue de Varenne
75007 Paris
Tel : 01.44.18.61.10.
Fax : 01.45.51.55.38.
Winter: 9:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Summer: 9:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Closed: Mondays + Jan. 1, May 1, Dec. 25.
- Transportation :
- Metro : Varenne.
- RER C : Invalides
The Hôtel de Biron was built in the 18th century (architects: Auber, Gabriel – 1729-1731) and turned into an artists’ residence in the early 1900’s. Matisse and Rodin were among the many artists who lived there. Rodin left everything he owned, including his works of art, to the State so that this monument could be saved, and above all turned into a museum dedicated to sculpture. The Rodin museum opened its doors to the public in 1919; Rodin’s art and collections are shown here along with works by Camille Claudel. The sculptor’s most famous works and some of his personal furniture have been on exhibit in the museum ever since. A number of the master sculptor’s great works such as The Thinker and The Burghers of Calais can be seen in the museum’s gardens.
Musée de l'Armée
 Hôtel National des Invalides
129, rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris
Tel : 01.44.42.37.72.
Fax :01.44.42.37.64.
Open every day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the summer and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the winter.
Closed Jan. 1, May 1, Nov. 1 and Dec. 25.
The Dome and the emperor’s tomb can be visited from 10 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. from 15 June through 15 September.
Transportation
- Metro : Varenne, Latour Maubourg
- RER C : Invalides
Located in the Hôtel National des Invalides, it is the largest military history museum in France and one of the largest in the world.
The museum houses temporary exhibitions and includes the tomb of Napoleon 1st under the Dome. Its mission is to “maintain and develop a defensive spirit in the nation and a taste for military history, preserve the memory of those who fought and died for their country and the memory of national military glories; contribute to the awakening of military vocations; and conserve, present and enrich its collections.”
L’Eglise du Dôme
 In 1989, for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the dome was gilded for the 5th time since its creation. Twelve kilos of gold were required for the operation.
The Eiffel Tower Champ de Mars
 75007 Paris
Tel : 01.44.11.23.11
Winter: 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Summer: 9 a.m. to midnight
Open every evening.
Transportation :
Metro : Bir Hakeim, Champ de Mars
This 317-meter high monument weighs 10,100 tons. Built by Gustave Eiffel to be the star of the World’s Fair, it has both fans and detractors. It is in any case the world’s most well-known monument. Le Musée d'Orsay
 62, rue de Lille
75343 Paris Cedex 07
France
Tel : 01 40 49 48 14.
General information : 01 45 49 11 11
Web : www.musee-orsay.fr
Hours:
- Closed Mondays
- From 1 October to 20 June: open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Building clearance begins at 9:15 p.m. on Thursdays and 5:30 p.m. other days.)
- Transportation:
- Buses : 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, 94
- Metro : line 12, Solférino Station
- RER : line C, station Musée d'Orsay
- Taxis : rue de Solférino and quai Anatole-France
- Car parks : Deligny, Louvre, Montalembert
The Orsay train station was built in 1900 by Victor Laloux for the World’s Fair. In 1973, the French office for museum management began to consider the creation of a museum in the Orsay station.
This museum would display all forms of art from the second half of the 19th century. The Musée d’Orsay was inaugurated in December 1986.
Works of art from 1848 to 1914 (paintings, pastels, sculpture, objets d’art, furniture, etc.) are now displayed there. A visit to this museum provides a feast for the eyes and a better understanding of this revolutionary era with its impressionists (masters and disciples), its Art Nouveau department and its French Sculpture department. Le Musée du Petit Palais
 Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Tel : 01.42.65.12.73
Fax : 01.42.65.24.60
Open from 10 a.m. to 5:40 p.m.
Closed Mondays and holidays.
Transportation :
Metro : Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau.
RER : Charles de Gaulle-Etoile.
The Petit Palais was built to house a retrospective exhibition of the fine and decorative arts at the World’s Fair in 1900. After the World’s Fair, the city of Paris decided to make the building into a permanent museum, known as the “Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris”.
Since that time, a wide range of art has been displayed at the Petit Palais: ancient and medieval art, Flemish and Dutch paintings, 19th century French sculpture and paintings, objets d’art from the 1900’s…a true panorama of art from Antiquity to 1925. Two main collections: ancient art (French, Flemish, Renaissance, and 18th century works) and 19th century French art (Doré, Delacroix, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc.) Notre Dame de Paris
 This masterpiece of Gothic architecture is also France’s most important religious edifice.
Opéra Garnier
 The Opera was built by Garnier in 1875.
A second opera house, Opera Bastille, was built in 1989 to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
Place de la Concorde
 This square is a symbol of national reconciliation after the Revolution. The Louxor obelisk was placed in the middle of the Place in 1836.
Place des Vosges
 This famous square in the heart of the medieval Marais district is surrounded by 17th century buildings with some of the most beautiful apartments in the city. Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier and Alphonse Daudet once lived here.
Sacré Coeur
 This basilica was built to the glory of the “Sacred Heart of Jesus”, in atonement for the bloodbath that took place under the Commune in 1870-1871.
Palais Royal
 A favorite gathering place for revolutionaries before 14 July 1789, the Palais Royal gardens are now a calm haven just across from the Louvre.
Panthéon
 This impressive neo-classical temple built at the end of the 18th century holds the remains of many great Frenchmen.
La Défense
 The Grande-Arche is the architectural jewel of this futuristic business area constructed on the western outskirts of Paris.
Assemblée Nationale
 The Palais Bourbon, with its neoclassical columns facing the obelisk in the center of the Place de la Concorde, is the seat of the Chambre des Députés.
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
 The most famous of all Parisian cemeteries, shining with the glory of its illustrious inhabitants, is truly a “City of the Dead within the City of the Living”.
Château de Versailles
 The Palace of the “Sun King” (Louis XIV) in Versailles is a half-hour from Paris by train.
Bourse de Paris
 Napoleon ordered the construction of this neo-classical “Temple of Money” in 1808.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France - François Mitterrand
 This institution, which has existed since the 14th century, holds the world’s oldest collection of maps along with 12 million printed works and 250,000 manuscripts.
Zoo de Paris
 The world-renowned Paris Zoo is home to 1200 animals, and 150 more are born there each year.
Paris Restaurants
An elegant Paris brasserie
- Restaurant Thoumieux
79 rue Saint Dominique 75007 Paris
01.47.05.49.75
Italian restaurants
- Restaurant DELL ANGELO
6 avenue Rapp 75007 Paris
01.44.18.90.12
- Restaurant CASA CRISTO
20 rue Pierre Leroux 75007 Paris
01.45.67.86.07
- Restaurant CASA PASTA
37 avenue Duquesne 75007 Paris
04.45.55.43.43
- Restaurant IL GIRASOLE
9 rue Surcouf 75007 Paris
01.45.50.20.69
- Restaurant PICCOLO BORGUESE
91 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris
01.45.51.02.59
- Restaurant LA LUCIANA
4 rue Pierre Leroux 75007 Paris
01.53.69.06.03
Gastronomic restaurants
- Restaurant LA CANTINE DES GOURMETS
113 avenue de la bourdonnais 75007 Paris
01.47.05.47.96
- Restaurant LE JULES VERNE Eiffel 2 ème étage
Champ de Mars 75007 Paris
01.45.55.61.44
- Restaurant LE DIVELLEC
107 rue de l'Unviversité 75007 Paris
01.45.51.91.96
Traditional restaurants
- Restaurant LE BAR AU SEL
49 quai d'Orsay 75007 Paris
01.45.51.58.58
- Restaurant LE BISTROT DU 7 EME
56 bd de la Tour Maubourg 75007 Paris
01.45.51.93.08
- Restaurant NUIT DE SAINT JEAN
29, rue Surcouf 75007 Paris
01.45.51.61.49
- Restaurant LE CAFE DE L'ALMA
5 avenue Rapp 75007 Paris
01.45.51.56.74
- Restaurant LA FONTAINE DE MARS
129 rue St-Dominique 75007 Paris
01.47.05.46.44
Seafood restaurants:
- Restaurant LE PETIT NICOIS
10, rue Amélie 75007 Paris
01.45.51.83.65
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