My Itinerary

As most of you know, I'm super nerdy. So, I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of all the sites I want to see in Paris so I can maximize my time there. Here is my list:

Paris Itinerary
(I got most of this information from my Lonely Planet guide to Paris.)
1. Centre Pompidou - see Marcel Duchamp’s Urinal
2. Musée D’Orsay - see Olympia by Manet as well as many other impressionist works
3. Go to an open air market, like the Marché Bastille market or the Rue Mouffetard market
4. Louvre - also see the Musée de la Mode et du Textile (Fashion and Textile Museum) which showcases fashions from designers like Coco Chanel
5. Arc de Triomphe - go to the top of the arc
6. Notre Dame and Ste. Chappelle- these are two separate churches, but very close together - I’d also like to go to Sunday mass at Notre Dame once
7. Cimitière du Père Lachaise - Go see the graves of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, and Victor Noir (woman famously rub the crotch of his statue to become pregnant)
8. Do a bike tour of Paris
9. Take a river boat cruise along the Seine
10. Musée National d’Art Moderne (National Museum of Modern Art) - France’s national collection of art dating from 1905 onward
11. Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden) - supposedly a very beautiful garden in Paris
12. Musée de l’Orangerie - modern art museum which contains works from Picasso, Renoir, etc. - it also has a circular room exhibiting Monet’s “Water Lillies”
13. Archives Nationales (National Archives) - go see letters written by Joan of Arc, Napoleon, etc.!!
14. Musée Carnavalet - Paris history museum which is housed in Madame de Sévigné’s house
15. Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie (Museum of Curiosity and Magic) - I’m not especially interested in the exhibits, just the fact that its housed in Marquis de Sade’s basement. If those walls could only talk…
16. Musée Picasso - also includes Picasso’s own personal art collection
17. Place des Vosges - duels were typically fought here - Victor Hugo’s house is also here
18. Conciergerie - Prison where Marie Antoinette was held during the French Revolution
19. Pont Neuf (Bridge Nine) - interesting statues line the bridge
20. Jardin des Plantes (Plant Garden?) - zoo - At one point during the Prussian seige of Paris (1870), most of the animals were eaten due as a result of dwindling food supplies
21. Musée National d’Histoire (National History Museum) - see exhibits on France’s history
22. Musée National du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the Middle Ages) - I want to see the tapestry of “The Lady With the Unicorn” which I studied in one of my Art History classes. Its supposed to represent purity and virginity, I believe.
23. Panthéon - Voltaire, Rousseau, and Zola are entombed here
24. Sorbonne - the Harvard of France
25. Jardins du Luxembourg (Luxemburg Gardens) - beautiful gardens near my school
26. Catacombs - underground tunnels which were used for mass graves
27. Cimitière du Montparnasse - Baudelaire, de Maupassant, Beckett, de Beauvoir, Sartre, etc. are buried here.
28. Tour de Montparnasse - The tower offers a great view of the city where you don’t have to look at the tower J
29. Hôtel des Invalides - The tomb of Napoleon is here. The word “invalide” in French means a disabled war veteran.
30. Musée de Rodin (Rodin Museum) - See the works of Rodin, like “The Thinker” and “The Kiss.”
31. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ( Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris) - see Fauvist, cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist works of art
32. Maison de Balzac (Balzac’s House)
33. Musée des Égouts de Paris (Paris Sewer Museum) - Go see where Paris shits!
34. Musée du Vin (Wine Museum) - How could I not?
35. Musée Galliera de la Mode de la Ville de Paris (Galliera Museum of Paris Fashion) - See 100,000 outfits and accessories from the 18th century to today!
36. Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Fine Arts Museum of Paris) - This museum specializes in Medieval and Renaissance art objects like porcelain, clocks, tapestries, and drawings.
37. Place de la Concorde - See where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette got their heads chopped off!
38. Musée du Parfum (Museum of Perfume) - See the history of perfume.
39. Walk along the Canal St. Martin. In the film Amélie, she skips rocks along this canal.
40. Cinémathèque Française - Go to see where Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut went to watch movies.
41. Go to Chinatown and go shopping and eat Chinese food!
42. Sacré Coeur - go to the top of the dome of the church
43. Cimitière du Montmartre - Truffaut and Degas are buried here.
44. Musée de l’Érotisme - no explanation needed
45. Château de Vincennes - Louis XIV spent his honeymoon here.
46. Basilique de St. Denis - It was the world’s first major Gothic structure. Several kings and queens are buried here.