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The 13th Arrondissement - Thirza Vallois - If you are tired of queueing up in front of the Louvre Pyramid or the Musée d'Orsay, the 13th arrondissement will offer you a pleasant break into genuine Paris, away from all the tourists and the madding crowds. (This piece is excerpted from Thirza Vallois' book Around and About Paris.)

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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - A predictable thing happens in Paris in May and June. Visitors start coming to town, first in dribbles, then in droves. They're everywhere, on the Champs-Elysées, "up" in Montmartre, at the Louvre, walking around in Notre Dame, gazing in awe at the thirteenth century stained glass windows in the Sainte-Chapelle, climbing up the stairs of the Eiffel Tower, having a drink on café terraces, sitting in little restaurants.

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Shakespeare & Co; An Angel in Disguise - Paul Jensi - The mighty Notre Dame huddles in the shadows of a tiny bookstore across the Seine on the Left Bank. Under the battered sign of Shakespeare & Co waits a dried up well primed for wishes in the heart of what was once a monastery.

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French History - June - Events: D-Day / Jour-J 6.06.1944 ; Treaty of Tientsin - 9.06.1885; Rudolf Nureyev defects in Paris - 16.06.1961; La Poste - Postal Service - created - 19.06.1464; Napoléon crosses the River Niemen - 24.06.1812; Births: Nicolas Carnot - 1.06.1796; Paul Gauguin - 7.06.1848; Jacques Cousteau - 11.06.1910; Louis XII - 27.06.1462; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 29.06.1900;

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