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OPERA
QUARTER
CHAMPS-
ELYSEES
TUILERIES QUARTER
BEAUBOURG
AND
LES HALLES
S e i n e
ST-GERMAIN-
DES-PRES
Locator Map
See Central Paris Map pp16–17
4 . Opéra National de Paris Garnier
With a mixture of styles ranging from Classical to
Baroque, this building from 1875 has come to
symbolize the opulence of the Second Empire.
PL DIA GHILE V
Metro Chaussée
d’Antin
H A L E V Y
R U E G L U C K
PLJ
R U E A U B E R
E CHE
B ROU
I 5 Bibliothèque-Musée
R de l’Opéra
C R U E
S The world of opera is
celebrated here.

PL CH

GARNIER

The Place de l’Opéra

E was designed by
U Baron Haussmann and
R
is one of Paris’s busiest
P L D E intersections.
R U E E D O U A R D V I I L’ O P E R A Metro Opéra
B L V D D E S C A P U C I N E S R U E D A U N O U L ’ P A V E D
O

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The Café de la Paix maintains its
old-fashioned ways and still has
its 19th-century decor, designed by
Garnier. Their vanilla slices are
legendary (see p310).
3 . Les Grands
Boulevards
At No. 14 Boulevard des
Capucines, a plaque tells
Harry’s Bar was named of the world’s first public
after Harry MacElhone, a screening of a movie, by
bartender who bought the the Lumière brothers in
bar in 1913. Past regulars have 1895; it took place in the
included F Scott Fitzgerald Salon Indien, a room in
and Ernest Hemingway. the Grand Café.

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