Sidewalk café

Paris has no shortage of inviting sidewalk cafés.

Step up

The light streaming from overhead gives this Montmartre stairway an ethereal feel.

Parting shot

Philippe Starck's interior pays homage to artist Salvador Dali who spent about a month of each year here for thirty years in the old Royal Suite.

Le Meurice
228 rue de Rivoli 75001

Jars of light

 

Mason jars as lamps at La Tiborna, a tiny Portuguese coffee shop-deli off rue des Abbesses.

Lamp posts and bicycles

Some of the most photogenic spots in Paris are when you're not looking.

Between the sheets

A tiny chocolate shop sells sheets of chocolate in over a dozen varieties by the kilo.

Above: spicy piment d'espelette, candied violets, hazelnuts, walnuts, white and dark chocolates

L'Atelier du Chocolat
109 rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75004.

Saint Joan of Arc

Jeanne d'Arc, "The Maid of Orléans," astride a golden steed facing the Left Bank and soon-to-be-setting sun.