A district located in the south-west of the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It is composed of the boulevard de Strasbourg Saint Denis to the east and the rue du Faubourg Poissonnière to the west, the avenues of Grands-Boulevards to the south (Bonne Nouvelle and Saint Denis) and the rue de Chabrol to the north.
The flats are often very spacious, there are many loft apartments. It is a lively and cosmopolitan neighbourhood. There are many restaurants. If the street architecture has hardly changed in two hundred years, everything else has changed. Today, small Turkish, Kurdish, African and Indian businesses jostle with Art Nouveau brasseries and French delicatessens. If you sit on one of the many terraces in the district, you will see all the nationalities and hear dozens of different languages.
It contains many lanes and courtyards of an old craft district, especially in the south-east with the picturesque covered alleys of Prado (since 1765) and Brady (since 1828), there are many Indo-Pakistani businesses. Rue de Paradis is known for its collection of tableware and crystal shops, as well as for hosting the Baccarat Crystal Museum, which has since been relocated to the 16th arrondissement, Place des Etats-Unis.
