This amazing guide to the great ancient city was written by a great expert on France and Paris, Boris Mikhailovich Nosik (1931-2015). A subtle prose writer, chronicler of Russian emigration in France, author of biographies of A. Akhmatova, A. Modigliani, V. Nabokov, translator of English and American classics, Boris Mikhailovich lived in Paris for decades, fell in love with this city, its incomparable spirit , studied its history. The reader will see the Paris of d'Artagnan and Commissioner Maigret, Ernest Hemingway and Honore de Balzac, Georges Brassance, Franz Liszt, great artists and poets, a city that became the second homeland for several generations of Russian emigrants, and together with Boris Nosik will trace its history from Roman times legionnaires to the present day. Inspired by the author's praise for walking, we will begin our walk from the Ile de la Cité, Notre Dame Cathedral, the quiet island of Saint-Louis, following in the footsteps of the Roman legionnaires, we will find ourselves in the Latin Quarter, walk along the street of the Cat-fisher, see D'Artagnan's Paris , Luxembourg Gardens, Saint-Germain Quarter, Dauphine Street, Balzac's Left Bank, Prince of Condé Street, "Great Cafes" of the Left Bank, where it's nice to drink tea, talk... Let's wander through the streets around Montparnasse, look into the legendary "Beehive", where she was born Paris School of Painting. Let's go down the cheerful Rue Mouffetard, walk through the places of Hemingway, through the Paris of attics and small rooms. Next - to the Invalides, the Orsay Museum, and at the end - a walk along the banks of the Seine, which, according to Prévert, “flows into Paris”