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Ruth would especially like to thank Fenella for help
with research; James, Carole and Loic; and Dylan
for his advice and support.
James would like to say a special thank you to
Eva, Guillaume and Marjorie for their advice and
companionship in Paris, and to Alice for all her
support. Thanks too to Pierre Loechner for his
musical expertise.
The authors would like to thank Eva Loechner for
her thorough and timely work in fact-checking the
guide, as well as Martin Dunford, Geoff Howard,
Diana Jarvis, Sharon Martins, Mark Thomas and
Andy Turner at Rough Guides. In Paris, thanks to
Sandrine Adass, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du
Judaïsme; Catherine Adam, Musée Delacroix;
Stephanie Barral, Alain Ducasse; Mme Barthélemy,
Barthélemy; M Bergeot, Musée de l’Armée; Valery
Boucher, Hédiard; Mme Boulinier, Grande Galerie
d’Evolution; Lionel Bordeaux, Mairie de Paris;
Philippe Bourgeois; Georges Brunel, Musée
Cognacq-Jay; Sandrine Calcaltagirone, Café
Georges; Brigitte Camus; Madame Canipel, Hôtel
Ermitage; Mlle Celine, Rex Club; Jean-Pierre
Chauvet, Musée Picasso; Catherine Decaure,
Musée Carnavalet; Stephanie Delaserve, Musée du
Vin; Mlle Delfine, Zadig & Voltaire; Sylvester
Engbrox, Musée Rodin; Claire Fine, Disney; Yves
Gagneux, Musée Balzac; Stephanie Froger, Musée
de l’Armée; Mlle Gallais, Musée de l’Armée; Xavier
Héraud, Têtu; Juliette Laffon, Musée Bourdelle;
Florence Lannuzel, Musée Rodin; Helene Lefevre,
Musée Guimet; M Louis, Lasserre; Jerome
Manoukian, Musée Rodin; Mme Marie-Odile, Hôtel
du Globe; Mme Maurer, Musée Moreau; Niko
Melissano, Musée du Louvre; Mme Messina, Site
de Création Contemporaine; M Monnin, Hôtel
Pavillon de la Reine; Mme Moreau, Musée Nissim-
Caïmondo; Anne de Nesle, Musée Galiera; Mme
Noel, Le Limonaire; Fasia Ouagurmouni, Musée
Zadkine; M Papin, La Gare; Véronique Petit-Jean,
Musée du Louvre; M Philippe, Square Trousseau;
M Pierre, L’Ambroisie; Caroline Pons, Flo group; M
Provensal, Cité de la Musique; M Reix, Le Jules
Verne; Béatrice Ruggieri, L’Hôtel; Ann Samuel,
Musée Carnavalet; Mme Sigal, Musée d’Art et
d’Histoire du Judaïsme; Mathieu Tordjaman, Les
Bains; Anne Veron, Musée d’Orsay; Bruno de Ville
d’Avray, Les Egouts de Paris.
Ruth Blackmore is a Senior Editor at Rough
Guides in London. She is the co-author of the
Rough Guide to Paris
and a contributor to the
Rough Guide to France
and the
Rough Guide to
Classical Music
.
James McConnachie is a writer and photogra-
pher based in London. He is the author of the
Rough Guide to the Loire
and co-author of the
Rough Guides to Paris and Nepal. He has also
contributed to the Rough Guides to France, Spain,
Italy, Venice and Florence.
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Text editors: Geoff Howard, Andy Turner
Layout: Diana Jarvis
Photography: James McConnachie
Cartography: Rough Guides Delhi team
Picture research: Mark Thomas
Proofreader: Carole Mansur
Production: Julia Bovis
Design: Henry Iles
Rough Guide Credits
Photo credits
All images © Rough Guides except the following:
p.1 Steet sign on the Avenue Des Champs-
Elysées © Royalty-Free/Corbis
p.12 Fireworks over the Arc de Triomphe on
Bastille Day © Peter Turnley Corbis
p.13 Lance Armstrong on the Prologue of the
Tour de France © Tim De Waele/Corbis
p.13 Foire du Trone © Violetta Grizak/Corbis
Sygma
p.13 Nuit Blanche © Elisa Haberer/Corbis
p.16 Grand Arche de la Defence
© kustomphotography
p.18 Musee Marmottan © Robert Holmes/Corbis
p.28 Taillevent restaurant © Taillevent restaurant
p.30 Chartier restaurant © Helena Smith
p.30 Le Reminet © Le Reminet
p.31 Au Bourguignon du Marais © Au
Bourguignon du Marais
p.38 Sally Nyolo in concert at the Café de la
Dance © Sebastien Cailleux/Corbis
p.49 Men carrying a banner at Gay Pride
© Owen Franken/Corbis
p.61 View from the Arc de Triomphe © Gordon R.
Gainer/Corbis
p.79 Aerial view of L’Etoile and the Champs
-Elysées © Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis
p.81 Street sign on the Avenue Des Champs-
Elysees © kustomphotography
Acknowledgements
The authors