Archives ¬ > Life on Mars > Le Vieux-Colombier, a century of artistic passions > Scandalous Rapp > Rue de l’Université, an old school street in Paris > Servandoni is at home at Saint-Sulpice > The city hall of the 7th arrondissement, an eye on history > Jean Bart, a novel’s hero > Rue Dauphine, a modern street in Paris > Taxi, rue de la Chaise ! > Rue Jacob, by the wish of Queen Margot > Green Grenelle > Rue de Fleurus, caught by the night > Gros Caillou, a former countryside of Paris > Rue du Bac, Paris walks on water > Rue de Furstemberg, a small way across great History > In quest of quay Malaquais > Musée du quai Branly, a total success > Rue Bonaparte, an aristocratic way > Savorgnan de Brazza, colonizer and humanist > Who’s that « Madame » ? > La Tour-Maubourg, a family story > From small val Girard to great Vaugirard > Shade and light on La Bourdonnais > Le Flore, garden of Parisian intellectual life > Abbé Grégoire, the patois’ killer > The Quai d’Orsay, flaghsip of the french diplomacy > Alexander III Bridge, symbol of the French-Russian friendship > Rue Mazarine, tribute to a famous statesman > Sainte-Clotilde, the first neogothic church > The birth of the Faubourg Saint-Germain > The Hotel Matignon, reluctantly republican > Zadkine at home > The Rodin Museum > The strange destiny of the knight of Assas > Unesco, in search of a universal peace > The rue de Buci, a medieval legacy > The Assemblée Nationale, an aristocratic palace become republican > Saint-Sulpice, an old parish in modern Paris > Hôtel des Invalides : an hospice become pantheon > Rue du Cherche-Midi > The "Ecole militaire" or the sobriety of Mars > Saint-Germain-des-Prés, world center of arts and letters > The Orsay museum put art on the right tracks > The Institute of France: five academies under one roof > Gustave and the big tower > Ecole de Médecine - the first modern Faculty > The Catholic Institute of Paris > Le Bon Marché - The Parisians’ happiness > The ''Beaux-Arts'' > The Odeon Theatre > The Carmes Church > The Luxembourg Palace Life on Mars The Champ de Mars offers without a doubt one of the best views of Paris. You dream of getting up every morning in front of his 25 hectares of greenery and tickle the leaves of a thirty-seven meters Pterocarya in the midst of Jardins à la française? Forget the Eiffel Tower, there is nothing to rent there! In front of it, the Military Academy only welcomes soldiers ... If you passed the age of conscription, or if you got flat feet, you only have two addresses left: the Adrienne-Lecouvreur lane and the Thomy-Thiéry lane, two alleys opened in 1907 which face one another at two hundred and twenty meters of distance. Needless to say, you don’t suffer from the neighbour opposite ... They bury mysteries, don’t they? The early birds will choose the Thomy-Thiéry lane and enjoy the first rays of sun looking eastward. They will remember the generosity of George Thomy-Thiéry. This rich Mauritian settled in Paris is known for having, in 1895, bequeathed to the Louvre museum his fabulous art collection, including many paintings from the masters of the Ecole de 1830: Corot, Millet, Delacroix, and many others. Night owls will opt for the Adrienne-Lecouvreur lane and enjoy beautiful sunsets looking westward. While lowering the curtain of a dying day, they will remember the tragic fate of Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692-1730), laundress become one of the greatest actresses of her time. Died in shady circumstances, the former lover of Maurice de Saxe was secretly buried on the banks of the Seine after priest of Saint-Sulpice had refused a church burial for her.