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The ninth district is located on the right bank of the Seine. Its surface is slightly greater than 0.8 square miles (about 2.2 kilometers square). While its population is about fifty-five thousand the area is home to over a hundred and ten thousand jobs and is a business center of Paris.

Olympia is the oldest music hall in Paris and one of the most famous worldwide. It also hosted the circus and ballet. When the company was slow, it took a long stay as a movie theater. And in the 1990s, it was almost turned into a parking lot. Olympia Famous Performers performers including Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, and Jeff Buckley, and only some of them.

Another kind of music hall Folies Bergere North East of Olympia was built in the mid-nineteenth century as an opera house with the name of the Follies Treviso. But to protect his reputation, the Duke of Treviso had its name changed shortly thereafter. His famous performers included singer-dancer Josephine Baker who wore a skirt made of bananas and Maurice Chevalier, but nobody remembers what he wore.

The neo-baroque Palais Garnier, commonly known as the Paris Opera (Paris Opera) 2200 seats for opera lovers. Its stage can contain up to 450 artists. Even if you do not like opera, you must visit this beautiful building with statues and busts of famous composers. Construction began in 1862 but was not completed until 1875. The building rests on a swamp recreating an underground lake. It took eight months just to pump away the water. In 1896, a cons-weight for its beautiful luster to six tonnes fell to kill someone. This opera is the inspiration for the French novel The Phantom of the Opera and the musical of the same name, the oldest and the most lucrative show in Broadway history. The new Opera de Paris, known as the Opera Bastille is on the other side least wealthy of the city. It was supposed to replace the old, but did not.

Galeries Lafayette department store is a 10-story from the beginning the previous century. You should take a look at the building, its beautiful Art Nouveau staircases, and its products even if you really do not want to buy something. It is the flagship store of an international chain. One branch even opened located in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, but have stopped their activities. What you bet someone got fired?

The competitor Printemps (Spring) The large flagship store located just down the street from Galeries Lafayette. It is also part of an international chain, and its only American branch in Denver Colorado, instead of Manhattan, also went belly after only sixteen months and the building is now used as a medical test center. The Store Parisian landmark was founded in 1865. The building is known for Art Deco style stained glass dome that was removed in 1939 for obvious reasons. The cupola was restored in 1973 by his grand-son of the designer on the original plans. FA Building? E and the dome are registered as national monuments.

Pigalle is centered around Place Pigalle, on the edge of the ninth and eighteenth arrondissements. To a large extent this is a hot area with some nightclubs including the famous Moulin Rouge, which features a red imitation windmill on its roof. The building was decorated as the turn of the century-(no, not a 1999-2000) look. This club has inspired a 1952 movie of 2001, which was nominated for an Oscar for best film. The area has attracted artists worldwide famous, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Van Gogh. The area south of Place Pigalle is a trade center of popular musical instruments.

Well Sure, you do not want to be in Paris without sampling fine French wine and food. In my article I Love French Wine and Food – An Alsace Pinot Blanc, I saw such a wine and suggested a sample menu: Start with Foie Gras (goose or duck). For your second course savor Baeckeoffe (meat and potato casserole). And for dessert indulge yourself with cake Hunter (Almond Cake with Raspberry and meringue). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward) will be happy to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course.

About the Author:

Levi Reiss has authored alone or with a co-author ten computer and Internet books, but to tell the truth, he would really rather just drink fine French, German, or other wine, accompanied by the right foods. He knows what dieting is, and is glad that for the time being he can eat and drink what he wants, in moderation. He teaches classes in computers at an Ontario French-language community college. Visit his Italian travel, wine, and food website www.travelitalytravel.com and his global wine website www.theworldwidewine.com.

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