Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise ...

Recently I was a temporary resident of Rue du Mont Thabor, which is a three-block street in Paris between Place Vendome and the Tuileries. At first glance the street is nondescript, one of the many… ...