Location: .3rd Le Marais in France
Nearest Airport:
Charles de Gaulle at 20
Kilometres
Le Marais, (meaning 'the marsh' in French) is a district in Paris, France, traditionally a bourgeois area, but also well-known historically.
It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements in Paris (on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the Seine).
It is a place for visitors to stroll through when the eye tires of the French capital's traditional elegance, its wide boulevards and heroic esplanades. To visit the Marais is to leave the 19th-century Paris of Haussmann, Louis Napoleon and the Belle Epoque and enter a different, older city.
The Marais is fashionable and vivid didtricy. Rich and poor, aristocrat and artisan, still live cheek by jowl much as they did in the 16th century. Restaurants, boutiques and antique shops jostle for space along the narrow sidewalks with grubby little epicentres, musty tailor's shops and plebian cafes almost unchanged since Balzac's day.
There is a constant bustle of life in the Marais not found in many of the more elegant parts.