Monday, July 28, 2025

FRANCE

ARGONNE

AZINCOURT
 • Site of October 25, 1415
 • Medieval History Center of Azincourt

BAYEUX
BEAUMONT-HAMEL 
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial

BEAUNE
Boutique Maison Louis Jadot, 62 Rte de Savigny, 21200 Beaune
  • Burgundy vintner available at the LCBO

CARNAC
CHARTRES
COURSEULLES-SUR-MER
CORSICA

DIEPPE

ÈZE
Chevre d'or
Very close to Monaco

FONTAINEBLEAU
Chateau de Fontainebleau

GIVERNY 
Located 75 km West from Paris 
Fondation Claude Monet 
The Last Living Monet by Kelly Crow, WSJ Magazine, July 27, 2025

GIVENCHY-EN-GOHELLE 
Canadian National Vimy Memorial 

Guédelon
a medieval construction project located in Treigny 

HAUTOT-SUR-MER

LE HARVE
Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux, 2 Bd Clemenceau, 76600 Le Havre
  • Contains one of the nation's most extensive collections of impressionist paintings
Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born by Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, May 10, 2024

NIMES
Maison Carree
  • "Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison Carrée, like a lover at his mistress." – Thomas Jefferson, 1787
CALVADOS EXPERIENCE, Route de Trouville, 14130 Pont-l’Evêque

OUISTREHAM 

PARIS
Paris Is Packed in the Summer. Here Are Six Ways to Dodge the Droves by Seth Sherwood, New York Times, July 22, 2023
36 Hours in Paris by Laura Cappelle, New York Times, June 22, 2023
6 Paris Bistros to Try Now by Alexander Lobrano,  New York Times, July 6, 2023
In Paris, a Riverboat Sojourn on the Banks of the Seine by Joyce Maynard, New York Times, Sept. 18, 2024

Cluny Museum - National Museum of the Middle Ages

Comice, 31, Avenue de Versailles
 • Canadian owners


Le Petit Cambodge, 20 Rue Alibert, 75010 Paris
Recommended by Rory Smith

Guimet Museum, 6 Pl. d'Iéna, 75116 Paris
  • One of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Asian art outside of Asia

Maison de Proust, 102 Boulevard Haussmann, 75008

Musée de l'Armée

Musée Jacquemart-André 
 • Private home converted into a museum

Musée Marmottan Monet, 2 rue Louis Boilly, 75016
 • One of the city's largest Impressionism collections including 100 of Claude Monet's masterpieces
 • The nearest métro station is La Muette, on line 9.
 • Impression: Sunrise

Musée d'Orsay
  • Home of great Impressionist art
Orangerie Museum
 • Recommended by Alison Syme
 • Has the great water lilies cycle

Père Lachaise Cemetery,  16 Rue du Repos, 75020 Paris
 • See Jim Morrison's grave

Place de la Concorde

 • Site of Louis XVI's execution

Pompidou Centre, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris
  • Owns one of the most extensive collections of French Surrealist art in the word

Potager du Roi (The King's Kitchen Garden) 
  • Seen on Monty Don's French Gardens


Theatre in Paris

A food critic’s five favourite places to dine in Paris
Musée Carnavalet (Marcel Proust), 23 Rue de Sévigné
Marshal Ney's statue near rue de l'Obseravteur

HOTEL
Le Fabe Hotel
Recommended by MoneySense

CAFE
  • Remaining restaurant of Impressionists
Brasserie Balzar, 49 Rue des Écoles, 75005
  • Described by Adam Gopnik as "the best restaurant in the world" but then it changed
Le Gallopin, 40 rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris 2nd
Le Grand Véfour, 17 Rue de Beaujolais, 75001 
  • Opened in 1784
  • Guy Martin is the cher
  • OHMYGOD Expensvie
  • Adam Gopnik ate there

SHOP
Shakespeare and Co., 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005
The Abbey Bookshop, 29 Rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005
The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, 9 Rue de Médicis, 75006
  • All within a 15-minute walk

p. 46: Pavillon de la Reine, 28 Place des Vosges, 3rd
p. 46: Musee National Picasso, 3rd
p. 48: Musee Jacquemart-Andre
p. 85: Denon wing of the Louvre, 1st
p. 85: Jeu de Paume gallery, 8th
p. 119: M.G.W. Segas cane gallery, 9th
p. 119: Librarie Ulyssse on the Ile St-Louis
p. 148: Le Grand Vefour, Guy Martin's restaurant that opened in the 1830s, 1st -- so expensive
p. 149: Tanjia, great for Moroccan tea, 8th -- permanently closed
p. 152: Marie-Anne Cantin, 7th
p. 153: Berthillon, ice cream shop on Ile St-Louis, 4th
p. 154: Rue Montorgueil street market
p. 186: Cirque Bouglione, 11th
p. 187: Romanes Cirque Tsiganes, 11th
p. 212: Hemingway Bar at the Ritz, 1st
p. 217: L'Arbuci Jazz Club, 6th
p. 217: Petit Journal St-Michel, 5th
p. 221: Lapin Agile, Picasso favourite
p. 243: "Make Paris Yours"
p. 245: Promenades Gormandes, 3rd
p. 245: Grains Nobles, 5th
p. 246: Shakespeare & Co., 5th
p. 246: Rue de Vaugirard: "booklovers paradise in Paris"

PERONNE

REVIERS

ROQUEBRUNE-CAP-MARTIN
Hôtel Les Deux Frères
Very close to Monaco


SAINT-MICHEL-DE-MONTAIGNE
Château du Champ de Bataille

 • Featured on Monty Don's Gardens of France 

TAVEL
Les Carteresses SCEA, Rte Romaine, 30126 Tavel
  • Domaine des Carteresses available at the LCBO

Chateau d'Aqueria, Route de Pujaut 30126 Tavel
  • Château d'Aqueria and Marquis d'Aqueria Tavel available at the LCBO
  • 3 km from Les Carteresses

Domaine Maby, 249 Rue Saint-Vincent, 30126 Tavel
  • La Forcadière available at the LCBO
  • Less than kilometer from Les Carteressess

VIMY
Vineyards of Vezelay Walk with Breakaway Adventures.

7 Hidden Gems in France


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