From the owner: Un hôtel particulier abrite l'Assemblée Nationale Ce palais fut construit de 1722 à 1728 pour la…read moreduchesse de Bourbon, fille de Louis XIV. Mais sa façade néo-classique date de 1807, en réponse au péristyle de la Madeleine qui ferme sur la rive opposée la perpective de la place de la Concorde. Ce palais est aujourd'hui le siège de l'Assemblée Nationale, dans de très beaux décors réalisés notamment par Delacroix. Ce dernier a en effet signé les plafonds de la bibliothèque, riche de plus de 70 000 volumes.

Came to Paris during my American holiday, and was robbed sadly. Why doesn't Paris protect us…read moretourists from gypsies????!!! In a town where there are tons of national police officers looking for terrorists, they do nothing when tourists are swarmed by gypsies and robbed. They are all around the place de la concord and they do nothing to stop the gypsies who swarm you to "sign your name". When you ask all the National police for help they don't care and send you off to find the local city police. Right next to big fountains at the place de la Concorde we were swarmed by gypsies, and all the vendors said the police do nothing and that the gypsies come by every 30 minutes and rob some more unsuspecting tourists. So why doesn't Paris police protect their tourists???? when we flagged down a city police car, they did nothing and told us to travel up the road on foot to file a report. When we got to the station everyone working there was nice to us, BUT THERE WERE MANY OTHER TOURISTS FILLING REPORTS THAT THEY TOO WERE ROBBED. Be careful folks, Paris is not safe

Cute cops on rollerblades...I don't think it gets any more awesome than that! :Dread more

I needed to ship a letter opener back to the states. I went to FedEx and they quoted me 81 and then…read more69 euro! This thing weighs 0.1 kg! I went to this post office and it was busy, but the staff were very helpful. They essentially did everything for me and it cost 10 euro. They spoke enough English to understand what I wanted and to communicate what I needed to do. It worked out extremely well.