Walking around Paris is always exciting! Especially when your guide is such a knowledgeable and skillful storyteller as the famous writer and translator Boris Nosik, who lived in the French capital for more than fifteen years. The book is a kind of guide to Paris, which introduces the reader to the most diverse and sometimes surprising aspects of the life and history of the city: this is the Paris of d'Artagnan, Hemingway, Brassance, several generations of Russian emigrants... You can read our guide after the trip. You read, you remember, you relive everything again - it’s like a new trip, almost free: “Do you remember the Latin Quarter, where there are people everywhere, meat, meat, Greeks, Greeks, sandwiches worth half of dad’s pension? It turns out that this is where D’Artagnan came to see this woman whose husband was useless...” On a trip you should take the guidebook with you for evening reading. On the plane, make notes: “Bucy Street, building 12...” But still, it’s probably better to read it after the trip. There is a desire to go again. And if you have a desire, you will definitely go. The main thing in life is desires, appreciate them, they are the first to fade. Remember how Hemingway?.. This, however, is also in my book. There's a lot to it. Although some things may not turn out to be. Who is capable of grasping the immensity? And Paris, it’s like the sea...