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Touring the French countryside and cities means embracing a doctrine — one that prioritizes the joie de vivre (joy of living). If you find yourself enjoying a glass of the region's classic aperitif in a bright, Provencal village center or meandering through the time-worn passageways of the planet's greatest art treasury, the country supplies a deep immersion into sophistication, savoring, and a unique way of carrying oneself. And resting at the epicenter of the French experience you will find Paris: that municipality of illumination, the epicenter of love and longing, and the acknowledged ruler of the planet's great towns.

The capital resists being only a visual spectacle. Paris is a town that registers on your emotional frequency. For the past hundred years, cinema and books have painted Paris in the most glowing terms, yet the genuine article manages to outshine the legend. All wandering in the capital turns into a walk amid treasures without a ticket booth.

The city is tied into one recognizable whole by its grey metallic overheads and sand-toned stone faces, a look systematized by the famous prefect of the Seine in the nineteenth century. Start at the Arc de Triomphe and make your way down the tree-lined artery pointing toward the former Place de la Revolution. Make a leftward turn, and suddenly, the Eiffel Tower punctures the skyline. Confessing warmth toward the famous spire invites accusations of following the crowd — not until you experience the shimmering illumination that activates at every hour mark in the evening. In that moment, all doubts vanish.

No excursion can be deemed finished absent a tribute to the greatest assembled works of human genius.

The Louvre: Immense and inducing a kind of pleasant vertigo. Do not aim to cover the entire collection. Visit the classical figure without arms, the the marble figure standing on a ship's prow, and pay respects to the diminutive figure from 16th-century Florence secured behind armored windows, then devote the remainder of your visit to wandering without aim among the pharaonic artifacts.

Musee d'Orsay: Situated in a spectacular Belle Epoque station redesigned as an art space, this building is the designated champion of the artists who captured the fleeting moment. The Dutch master's repeated attempts to capture himself, The series of water surface studies dominated by sapphire and azure, and Edgar's famous bronze sculpture of the young ballerina are displayed for the public in this magnificent setting.

Centre Pompidou: For those whose taste leans toward the recent and the new — bright, bold, and covered in colorful pipes, it contains the continent's most extensive gathering of 20th-century and current creative works.

To fully absorb what Paris has to offer, you must throw away your navigation device and give yourself to the quarter.

Le Marais (4th): Narrow medieval passageways covered in granite blocks, fashion-forward retail spaces, historic Jewish bakeries, and the picturesque plaza where Victor Hugo once lived.

Montmartre (18th): Go up the long stairways toward the Romano-Byzantine cathedral to get the best view of the city. The area is undeniably crowded with visitors, but the spirit of the workspaces that belonged to master painters yet remains palpable.

Saint-Germain-des-Pres (6th): Rest your legs at the time-honored Flore or its neighbor the Magots, taste a ridiculously marked-up single-origin espresso, and take on the persona of the legend who refused the Nobel Prize, deep in abstract reasoning.