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 this day.