Allons à Paris!!

French Phrases for Transportation and Getting Around

Where is the train station? Où est la gare?

Excuse me, I am looking for the ticket office.

Pardon, je cherche le guichet.I would like a one way / round trip ticket

to Lyon. Je voudrais un aller simple / aller retour

à Lyon.

Charles de Gaulle Airport

Orly Airport

The Paris metro was first dug out at the turn of the 20th century.

It opened July 19, 1900

Billets - ticketsCarnet – a book of tickets

Metro

Paris: 20 districts known as arrondissements

Paris

• Paris is located on the Seine River in north-central France.

• Paris was first settled in the 3rd cent. BC by the Parisii tribe.

• Today, Paris is one of the most famous cities in the world.

Paris arrondissements

• The Louvre is located in the 1st arrondissement

• The Eiffel Tower is in the 7th • The Arc de Triomphe in the

8th

La Tour Eiffel

• Designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel

• 1,000 feet tall• Was tallest structure in

the world until 1931• Was a temporary

structure built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889

View from Eiffel TowerThroughout the years, the

Eiffel Tower has been a place for dare devils to attempt stunts like parachuting, scaling, pilots have tried to fly through the girders, etc.

Now there are antennas on the top to transmit TV, radio, and meteorological info

Le Louvre

• The Louvre Museum was formerly the palace of the kings of France it is now one of the greatest museums in the world.

• Over 800 years old, the Louvre palace is located in the 1st arrondissement along the Seine River.

Louvre

Louvre at night

Louvre

Winged VictoryLeonardo DeVinci’s Mona Lisa(located in the Denon wing of the Louvre)

LouvreJacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii

Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa

Centre Pompidoumodern art museum

Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou

• Located in the 4th arrondissement in Paris

• Largest modern art museum in Europe

Centre PompidouStravinsky Fountain

• 16 brightly painted sculptures that spray water

• Outside the Pompidou Center

Musée d’Orsay – used to be a train station

Houses the world’s largest impressionist exhibits

Impressionism•Showed artist’s impression of a subject•Visual brushstrokes•Artists played with color and light

Monet

Vincent Van Gogh

Notre Dame

• One of the greatest gothic cathedrals in the world, Notre Dame de Paris is located on the Ile de la Cité in the Seine River.

Notre Dame de ParisNotice the flying buttresses!

Gargoyles of Notre Dame

Notre Dame from the SEINE River

Télécarte

TGV – train de grande vitessespeed train that goes all over France

TGV TGV 1st class:

Other trains

Métro - to get around ParisRER - goes outside of Paris to

places like Versailles or EuroDisney