The Paris Apartment

19/10/2026

Nice on a beautiful October day

16/10/2026

Fall in Paris does not need a big monument. A small circle of trees on a quiet street is enough.

This is Rue de Furstemberg, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in the 6th arrondissement. Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots are a short walk away, but the noise stops here. No tour groups, just old buildings, small galleries, and a lamp with five glass globes.

The painter Eugène Delacroix chose this street for his last home. His apartment and garden studio are now a small museum at number 6.

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15/10/2026

Love this museum and its cafe.

This is Le Nélie, better known as the Café Jacquemart-André, inside the Musée Jacquemart-André on boulevard Haussmann, in the 8th arrondissement (district).

The room was once the private dining room of Édouard André, a banking heir, and his wife Nélie Jacquemart, a society painter. She had painted his portrait years before they married. The café now carries her first name.

The couple spent their lives filling this mansion with art, traveling to Italy every year to buy more. The ceiling fresco is by Tiepolo, brought from a villa near Venice. The tapestries were woven in Brussels in the 18th century and tell the story of Achilles.

After her husband died, Nélie kept collecting. She left the house and everything in it to the Institut de France, and it has been a museum ever since.

The best detail: you do not need a museum ticket to sit here. Order tea and a pastry from some of the best pastry chefs in Paris, and the Tiepolo comes with it. In summer, the tables move out onto a terrace overlooking the courtyard.

It is a few streets from the Champs-Élysées and still feels like someone's home.

15/10/2026

Going there the weekend after next.

You open an ordinary door and walk through a courtyard into the next street. 🚪🕳️

The traboules were built from the fourth century so residents could reach the river without the streets. Silk workers used them to move cloth dry. ⏳🧵

The Resistance used them to evade the Gestapo. Around 40 are legally open to the public by agreement with residents. 📜✨

11/10/2026

Interesting read.

𝗧𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆: 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 😄 (All info in the comments 👇)

Salut from Paris, everyone 😘!
Are you looking for a free thing to do in Paris that's not short on value? Then I’ve got just the place for you: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲́𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗲́𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.
It's a rather little known museum, that dives into Paris during WWII, focusing particularly on the Liberation.

You'll discover the incredible stories of two key figures: Jean Moulin and General Leclerc, who played pivotal roles in the fight against occupation. The museum's location is no coincidence—it’s situated right above the very bunkers used as hideouts during that time, and you even can visit them.

10/10/2026

There today.

09/10/2026

Love to visit the area. I always find something unique in their shops.

The easiest way to make a Paris trip feel less rushed is to build in a place like this.

Small, walkable and full of reasons to stop.

07/10/2026

It’s a wonderful museum. A bit like Science and Industry in Chicago.

05/10/2026

We wanted to attend, but we had a lot to do yesterday. Am going to search for pix online.

This morning, hundreds of dachshunds marched down the Champs-Élysées for the Paris Sausage Walk, one of the cutest charity events in the city.

It was the 7th edition of the walk, which started in 2018. Until now, it always took place along the Seine, near the Eiffel Tower. This year, the organizers teamed up with the Champs-Élysées committee and moved it to the most famous avenue in Paris. The timing was perfect. On the first Sunday of every month, the Champs-Élysées is closed to cars.

Owners gathered at the top of the avenue, right by the Arc de Triomphe, and the walk started at 11 a.m. The route was about 0.9 mile (1.4 kilometers) long. Every kind of dachshund was welcome: long-haired, short-haired, wire-haired, from standard size down to the tiniest ones. Some even showed up in a beret, like this one.

The event is free, and it is all about a good cause. It supports Teckels Sans Doux Foyer, a French rescue group that has taken in abandoned and mistreated dachshunds for more than 19 years. "Teckel" is the French word for dachshund, and the group's name means "dachshunds without a sweet home." The date was no accident either. October 4 is World Animal Day.

The idea came from London, which inspired Paris with its own sausage walk.