City Secrets Paris: The Essential Insider's Guide

  • November 13, 2014
City Secrets Paris: The Essential Insider's Guide
The City Secrets Travel Series presents its fifth volume, City Secrets Paris: The Essential Insider's Guide, (2014, clothbound in its trademark blue, 275 pages, 4 x 7 inches, ISBN: 978-0-9898612-0-5:$19.95).

With over 150 insider tips and 18 detailed maps, this long awaited guide to Paris complements the series which includes City Secrets: London, Manhattan, Rome, Venice and Florence.

Unique to City Secrets is the list of remarkable individuals and expert contributors such as novelists, journalists, painters, historians, anthropologists, actors, directors, architects, playwrights, and restaurateurs - who reveal, through personal anecdote and insight, little-known gems about art, food, shopping, architecture, and cultural and historic landmarks. These are subjects they may have spent a lifetime pursuing.

• End your quest for the best chocolate at La Chocolaterie de Jacques Génin
• Share a romantic meal at Le Train Bleu, in the Gare de Lyon
• Bypass the crowd in front of the Mona Lisa and, a few feet away, discover an overlooked Giorgione masterpiece
• Find a keepsake at Vernaison, the oldest flea market in Saint-Ouen
• Be amused by a quirky museum
• Go back in time at Chez Savy, an authentic Parisian restaurant
• Savor the best Napoleon in Paris!
• Take a sunrise stroll from Saint Germain to the Ile Saint Louis

Robert Kahn, creator and editor of the City Secrets series, is principal and founder of the award winning firm Robert Kahn Architect based in New York. A recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, he has received numerous awards from the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book is donated to a non-profit organization:

CITY SECRETS PARIS: Médecins Sans Frontière; CITY SECRETS ROME: The American Academy in Rome; CITY SECRETS LONDON: The John Soane Museum, The Museum of London, and Whitechapel Gallery; CITY SECRETS MANHATTAN: The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund; CITY SECRETS FLORENCE & VENICE: Save Venice and the American Academy in Rome.