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Walk Paris in 1889

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Step Into History · City walk

Belle Époque Paris, 1889

Paris in 1889 stands at the high point of the Belle Époque: the iron lattice of Gustave Eiffel's new tower rises over the Exposition Universelle while Haussmann's wide boulevards and new public buildings shape everyday life. The walk moves from the city's approaches through grand avenues, river quays and market streets to the windmills and artists' lanes of Montmartre, showing cafés, omnibuses, gaslight and the spectacle of the world's fair.

38 scenes — 24 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Paris as it stood in 1889 (“Paris in the Belle Époque”).

The route, scene by scene

1. Neuilly approach
2. Porte Maillot
3. Place de l'Étoile
↳ Vault and Stair of the Arc de Triomphe · interior
4. Avenue des Champs-Élysées
5. Place de la Concorde
6. Rue de Rivoli
7. Tuileries Gardens
8. Place du Carrousel
9. Palais-Royal
↳ Arcades of the Palais-Royal · interior
10. Place de l'Opéra
↳ Café de la Paix Grand Salon · interior
11. Opéra Garnier façade
↳ Grand Staircase of the Opéra · interior
12. Boulevard des Capucines
13. Les Halles
↳ Central Iron Hall of Les Halles · interior
14. Rue Montorgueil
↳ Patisserie Workshop on Rue Montorgueil · interior
15. Pont Neuf and Île
16. Notre-Dame exterior
↳ Nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral · interior
17. Quai d'Orsay and Les Invalides
↳ Dôme Church of Les Invalides · interior
18. Pont d'Iéna
19. Champ de Mars and Eiffel
↳ First Platform of the Eiffel Tower · interior
20. Galerie des Machines
↳ Galerie des Machines Exhibition Hall · interior
21. Esplanade du Trocadéro
↳ Great Hall of the Trocadéro Palace · interior
22. Moulin de la Galette
↳ Balroom of the Moulin de la Galette · interior
23. Place du Tertre
↳ Artist's Attic at Place du Tertre · interior
24. Sacré-Cœur summit
↳ Scaffolded Choir of Sacré‑Cœur · interior