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Top 20 Paris Restaurants
Rosa Jackson, the best Anglo restaurant-critic in Paris, provides you her guide for the very best places to experience true Paris cuisine. This is an ongoing and up-to-date list of the 20 restaurants you should know about.

Super Links
This is an incredible resource for Paris, France, visitors. Don't travel to Paris without checking this page out. If you can't find it here, you won't find it via 500-plus indexed Paris links.

Hidden Paris
Our own Mary McAuliffe, author of "Paris Discovered," and Paris Notes contributor, shares some fascinating stories of visits to things you will never read about in Paris guidebooks—or anywhere else, for that matter.

Top 20 Paris Hotels
There are so many excellent hotels in Paris. How do you choose the right hotel? Read our own Amanda MacKenzie's Top 20 hotel selections; hotels where you are sure to have a Parisian kind of stay, at a reasonable price.

Paris Apartment Rental Resources
Seems everyone these days is renting apartments for their Paris vacations. This is a great resource to help you select the right company to rent from, complete with links to every renter in town.

Speak the Culture: France
The French culture is as rich as it is complicated. Getting to know it better will enhance your journies. This is a free chapter about French food from an excellent guide to French culture called: Speak the Culture: France.

Paris Notes Classics
As a subscriber to Paris Notes you receive access to five years of back issues. But we like to share, so we have opened up our archives, here, to provide you with a Paris Notes Classics article. Read why Paris is called the City of Light.

Issue Index
We've been publishing Paris Notes, the newsletter for people who love Paris, since 1992. Subscribers receive access to five years of Paris Notes back issues. See a glossary of all we've been covering.

Paris For Beginners
Never been to Paris before? Don't have any idea what to do or see, or where to go? This page will give you some much needed perspective, and some great suggested about how to make the most out of your first trip.

Paris Museums List
With so many great museums in Paris, France, it's tough to decide which museums to visit. Click here for information on every museum in Paris, complete with links and descriptions.

Fun Things to Do in Paris
Looking for fun things to do in Paris? Cooking classes, walking tour guides, bike tours, museum tours, wine tastings, shopping tours, personalized visits, guides for hire. Find Paris' best providers here.

Paris Shopping Finds
It's hard to find truly unique things to buy. Rebecca Magniant of Chic Shopping Paris will help you find something really "Paris" to buy when you travel to Paris—for yourself, or your unlucky friends or family who couldn't join you.

Paris Architecture History
You don't really know Paris, France, unless you know its buidlings. This is an architectural timeline detailing the many eras, styles and trends—from Medieval to Modern—that have made Paris an architecural wonder.