Private cruise with Paris water way

Passage in front of the Ile Saint Louis
Île Saint-Louis is, along with Île de la Cité, one of the two natural islands of the Seine that still exist today in Paris (the current Île aux Cygnes is entirely artificial).

Located immediately upstream from Île de la Cité, it is the smaller of the two with an area of 11 ha.

Île Saint-Louis takes its current name (since 1725) from King Louis IX, nicknamed Saint Louis, patron saint and ancestor of Louis XIII. According to legend, he used to come to pray on the Île aux Vaches and would have taken the cross there with his knights in 1269 before leaving for the Eighth Crusade (an expedition which was fatal to him: Louis IX died of dysentery under the walls of Tunis a year later).

The Lambert hotel, one of the most beautiful private mansions on the island, was bought by Abdallah Ben Abdallah-Al-Thani, from the princely family of Qatar. It experienced a major fire in July 2013.

Passage in front of the Ile de la Cité

Île de la Cité is an island located on the Seine, in the heart of Paris. It is considered to be the ancient cradle of the city of Paris, formerly Lutèce. It belongs to the 1st and 4th arrondissements. The chronicler Gui de Bazoches referred to it in 1190 as "the head, the heart and the marrow of Paris".

The name “city” designates the fortified limits of Paris as they were at the end of Antiquity, reduced to the single island, and which were the urban core of the medieval city.

Passage in front of the concierge at the courthouse

The Palais de Justice is the former Curia Regis from which the Parliament of Paris and all the former sovereign jurisdictions (Water and Forests, Constabulary, Money, Masonry, etc.) and current ones (Council of State, Court of Cassation, Court of Accounts) come from. , Chancellery, as well as legislative and diplomatic archives). It has been located since its inception in the Palais de la Cité which was the residence and seat of power of the kings of France, from the tenth to the fourteenth century and of which there are important vestiges: the great room with its kitchen, the Conciergerie, the Sainte Chapelle, several towers and the influence of various buildings.

passage under the Pont Neuf

The Pont Neuf or Pont-Neuf is, despite its name, the oldest existing bridge in Paris. It crosses the Seine at the western tip of the Ile de la Cité.

Built at the end of the 16th century and completed at the beginning of the 17th century, it owes its name to the novelty of a bridge devoid of houses at the time and provided with sidewalks protecting pedestrians from mud and horses. It is also the very first stone bridge in Paris to cross the Seine entirely.

This monument has been classified as a historical monument since 18895. In 1991, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with all the quays of the Seine in Paris.

passage under the Pont des Arts

The Padlocks of Love (2008-2015)

From 20088, the wire mesh parapets of the Pont des Arts became the support for many “love padlocks” hung by couples. This practice then extends to the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor footbridge, the Archbishopric Bridge and the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge.

Faced with the controversy over the degradation of the heritage caused by the presence of these tons of padlocks which, according to some, would weigh down the bridge and could cause its collapse, and on their aspect considered particularly unsightly by others, the mayor of Paris decides to end it in September 2014. Thus, the fences were definitively removed on June 1, 2015 and were first replaced by a temporary exhibition of street art works by Jace, eL Seed, Pantonio and Brusk9, then by panels in glass from autumn 2015

Passage in front of the Louvre
The Louvre Museum is a museum located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

A foreshadowing was imagined in 1775-1776 by the Comte d'Angiviller, director general of the King's Buildings, as a venue for the presentation of masterpieces from the Crown collection. This museum was only inaugurated in 1793 under the name of Muséum central des arts de la République in the Louvre Palace, a former royal residence located in the center of Paris, and today it is the largest museum in art and antiques to the world. Its exhibition area is 72,735 m28.

At the end of 2019, the Louvre conserved more than 500,000 works, of which more than 36,000 were on display. They present Western art from the Middle Ages to 1848, that of the ancient civilizations which preceded and influenced it (Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman), the arts of the first Christians and of Islam.

Passage in front of the Musée d'Orsay

The Orsay Museum (officially a "public establishment of the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing" since 2021) is a national museum inaugurated in 1986.

Located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris along the left bank of the Seine, overlooking the Édouard-Glissant promenade, it is housed in the former Orsay station, built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900 and converted into a museum by decision of the President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, etc. It is one of the largest museums in Europe for this period.

The museum has the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world, with nearly 1,100 canvases in total out of more than 3,650.

Passage in front of the National Assembly

The history of national representation for two centuries is closely linked to that of the democratic principle and the rugged path it had to travel before finding in French institutions the consecration that it deserves today.

If the French have periodically elected representatives since 1789, the method of appointment and the powers of these representatives have varied considerably from time to time, the periods of erasure of the parliamentary institution generally coinciding with a decline in public freedoms. In this regard, denominations are not innocent. That of the National Assembly, chosen in the fervor of 1789, did not reappear - except for the brief parenthesis of 1848 - until 1946. In the meantime, different names followed.

Passage under the Alexandre III bridge

Inaugurated for the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 19002, the bridge was intended to symbolize the Franco-Russian friendship, established by the signing of the alliance concluded in 1891 between the emperor Alexander III (1845-1894) and the president of the French Republic Sadi Carnot. The first stone was laid by Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna and President Félix Faure on October 7, 1896. The construction of this work of art was entrusted to engineers Jean Résal and Amédée Alby, as well as to architects Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin3.

Built in the axis of the Esplanade des Invalides, it leads from it to the Petit and Grand Palais also built for the Universal Exhibition.

On the column, right bank downstream, was engraved this inscription: "On April 14, 1900, Émile Loubet, President of the French Republic opened the Universal Exhibition and inaugurated the Alexandre-III bridge".

Passage in front of the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower Listen is a puddled iron tower 324 meters high located in Paris.

Built in two years by Gustave Eiffel and his collaborators for the Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1889, celebrating the centenary of the French Revolution, and initially named "tower of 300 meters", it became the symbol of the French capital and a site Leading tourism: it was the third most visited French cultural site in 2015, with 5.9 million visitors in 20162. Since its opening to the public, it has welcomed more than 300 million visitors.