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Paris ~ Les Arrondissements

An Arrondissement is an inner suburb.

arrondissements of Paris

Les arrondissements de Paris.

Here is a list of the famous places and the general characteristics of each arrondissement.

1er: LOUVRE: les Halles, le Louvre- a very touristy area.

2e: BOURSE: la Bourse, l'Opéra - a business district

3e : TEMPLE: la République, Centre Pompidou/ Beaubourg -part of Les Marais, oldest neighbourhood in Paris.

4e: HOTEL-DE-VILLE: Notre-Dame-de-Paris, Hôtel de Ville - Centre of the Marais; trendy, alternative, but also the oldest part of Paris.

5e:PANTHEON: Panthéon, Institut du Monde Arabe - part of Latin Quarter, grandes écoles, universities, many students.

6e : LUXEMBOURG: Quartier latin : Saint-Michel, Saint-Germain, Jardin du Luxembourg, Le Senat - expensive art galleries, restuarants and little shops.

7e:PALAIS-BOURBON: Tour Eiffel, Musée d'Orsay, Les Invalides- wealthy area.

8e:ELYSEE: Avenue des Champs Elysées, la Concorde, Gare Saint-Lazare - shopping and tourists.

9e: OPERA: Grands Magasins, Grands boulevards - shops, businesses and residential.

10e: ENCLOS-ST-LAURENT: Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est, Canal St Martin- cosmipolitan, destination for locals and tourists.

11e: POPINCOURT: La Bastille - mostly residential.

12e : REUILLY: Palais omni-sports de Bercy, Gare de Lyon - mostly residential.

13e : GOBELINS: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Quartier chinois, Gare d'Austerlitz - residential area

14e: OBSERVATOIRE: Parc Montsouris, Cité universitaire - residential with lively cafés and bars

15e: VAUGIRARD: Palais des Sports, Parc André Citroën, Gare Montparnasse - mostly residential area catering for both wealthy and middle-class. Most heavily populated arrondissement.

16e: PASSY: Auteuil, Passy, 66 Ambassades étrangères (sur 133 présentes à Paris) - exclusive residential for the wealthy.

17e: BATIGNOLLES-MONCEAU: Palais des Congrès, Lycée international de Paris - diverse area.

18e: BUTTE-MONTMARTRE: Montmartre, Le Sacré Coeur, Pigalle - arty with feel of a village. Tourists.

19e: BUTTES-CHAUMONT: La Villette, le Zénith, la Cité de la musique - ethnic shops and eateries, residential.

20e: MENILMONTANT: Cimetière du Père Lachaise le plus grand espace vert de Paris; Belleville - poor areas becoming gentrified residential properties.

Les Arrondissements de Paris.

The inner suburbs of Paris are called arrondissements. An Arrondissement is like a little suburb. They were introduced by Baron Haussmann when he redesigned the city in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Paris has 20 arrondissements. The two other big cities of France to be divided into arrondissements are Marseille, with 6 and Lyon with 9

They spiral outwards from the city centre, like a snail! So the lower the number, the closer to the city centre is the arrondissement.

The Arrondissements also have names which are shown in the list. Even so, people tend to refer to them by number.

Find out more about Baron Haussmann and how he changed the face of Paris.

Baron Haussmann