Rocker hair

For those craving that perfect Elvis updo this salon de coiffure near Bastille is the place.

Rock Hair
7 Boulevard Beaumarchais 75004

Le Consulat

Many a painter has set up an easel on this corner to sketch the streets where Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Monet, Zola and Vincent Van Gogh roamed.

King of the Franks

Bare branches seem to be fanning out behind a statue of Charlemagne.

Portraits

Portrait artists add to the winter street scene around the Beaubourg.

Bistro on a square

Bistro on a cobbled square between meal times.

Fontaine des Innocents

The oldest monumental fountain in Paris, dating from 1547.

Café view

Coffee and rain from Shakespeare & Co.'s newly opened coffee shop.

37 rue de la Bûcherie 75005