Victor Hugo's Paris

the Paris of Les Misérables

21 Places

Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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The Heart of Voltaire

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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La Conciergerie

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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Cannonball of the Hotel de Sens

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Foucault’s Pendulum

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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Musée de la Prefecture de Police

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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Cimetiere de Picpus

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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Pont de la Concorde

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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Napoleon's Angels

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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Museum of the History of Medicine

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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Musée Carnavalet

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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Musée de la Vie Romantique

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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Jardin Alpin (Alpine Garden)

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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Cabinet of Joseph Bonnier de La Mosson

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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Lion of The Botanical Gardens

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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Maison de Victor Hugo

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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