Thank you for the lovely tribute -- here are words written by my uncle, who was part of the liberation of Paris. "Company B 81st now assigned to the 4th Infantry Division came into Paris on the 25th of August 1944. It was an exhilarating unforgettable experience. Thousands of Parisians greeted us with cheers, flowers, wine etc; and kisses from the girls. Another climactic day in my life. It soon ended as the 4th Division had moved on into the northeast environs of Paris receiving resistance and taking casualties." Always remember.
Bonjour from New York! I will be visiting Paris during Christmas week this year and I have made note of a few of these rooftops...very helpful. I also want to truly thank you for the beautiful and thoughtful ending to this video. I am second generation American by way of my grandparents emigrating here from Italy. My father was only 20 years old when he was given a Purple Heart in WWII. Thank you for showing respect to the military.
Once again an excellent and useful video, both for first time visitors to Paris, and those of us who have been so many times, you never see all of Paris... et merci beaucoup pour cet hommage émouvant à la fin.
When I was a poor student/ au pair in Paris 50+ years ago, I used to love to go to the roof-top terrace at La Samaritaine. C’est dommage that now only very wealthy people can enjoy that view. Thanks for your videos.
Yes!! That's the first thing that I thought of when I saw the title of the video. I used to go up there occasionally myself as I was a flight attendant and was in Paris frequently back then. I was just back last month and sad to see it no longer there. Cheers!
I keep coming back to your channel every day, because there is always something here for me to learn and appreciate. Thank you for the time and effort you put into making these. Keep up the fantastic work mate.
A very touching and moving tribute to those who have kept us free and allowed most of the free world to make our lives worthwhile!! Thanks again for your honoring their memory 18:36
I was moved to tears by your tribute. You have rapidly become my source for Paris research for my next trip. I greatly appreciate the time you take to travel, film and edit these videos. Merci!!
Thank you for much needed tips for admiring of your beautiful city! And very special moving tribute for the fallen heroes😢 PS My grandma’s cousin lived in Paris and when the war started he moved to Lyon and joined the Resistance ❤
Bonjour from Maryland. My wife and are headed to Paris in early November for our 40th wedding anniversary. We have loved watching your videos. Full of fantastic information. We know London well, but I’ve only briefly been to Paris. Your pronunciation of sites is rather different than what I read in my mind! This will help, and I am learning French. Thanks again, and having worked in front of a camera for 43 years, I know the work involved in these videos!
Thanks a lot for your nice comment. Yes, I always try to pronounce the name of the sites the French way ; I sometimes here some very funny things in other English speaking videos, with the musée d'Orsay, for example 😂
Thank you very much for an outstanding video! I was so glad to see the American Cemetery in Suresnes featured. Not enough Americans go and visit this place. When I was there this summer, the guest book had but one visitor a day for the last few weeks. What a shame! I also visited and took a tour of Mont Valerian, right up the street from the American Cemetery. This is a little known and visited fortress where were kept resistance fighters and Nazi "hostages" during the war. The guide explained the difference. Both groups were executed there. If anybody has any interest in WW2 history concerning Paris, Mont Valerian is well worth a visit! IMHO both the American Cemetery and Mont Valerian are a good day's visit - maybe someday you could do a video regarding both? Also, very close to Paris is the American Monument at Chateau-Thierry (Belleau Woods) - the place where, during WW1, the German Army got the closest to Paris and where they were stopped by two regiments of US Marines. The battlefield is still there and kept intact. It's only about 60 km east of Paris and an incredibly beautiful monument/cemetery. Merci Beaucoup!
Than you yet again for another great video! I especially appreciate the info re La Tour Saint-Jacques because I was unaware of it and I want to see a Paris I haven't seen before. Also, thank you for the beautiful tribute at the end of the video! That generation of men and women who fought overseas and supported the war effort at home were America's greatest generation.
very good tips for my travel, thank you! I think there's another building to suggest: the Tour Montparnasse, just in front of the Tour Eiffel it guarantees the best views in Paris, especially at night
Fantastic video! We are planning for our trip this fall and I don't know how I missed your channel, but I'm a subscriber now. Many of these locations are new to me. Look forward to doing more of a deep dive when I have the time. Thanks so much.
Fantastic video!!! We were just in Paris for our first time in May. I wish your video was available before we visited. That said, you have inspired us to go back. You did an amazing job showing both the locations and the views. I expect that we will look at this video several times in the coming months. BTW - we visited Sacre Coeur and I absolutely recommend climbing the tower. Especially on a clear blue day as in this video. Well done!
"Expect a line here too...". Oh dear... After visiting Paris recently after several years, I was shocked by the number of lines. Pretty much everywhere it seems to me. I was used to see lines on Saturday and Sundey, so I visited during the week and left on Friday evening, but now, there seems to be no escape. It would be great if you could attempt a video for shopping without lines, if there is such a thing anymore... As far as I remember, many luxury houses have branches in other parts of the city, so what are the alternatives to queuing for hours for Goyard and others in Rue Faubourg St. Honore? (I hope you will not send me to Biarritz 😉)
I'm returning to Paris this coming November for a slightly shorter stay - 6 nights as opposed to 8 last November. Thank you for yet another super video which continues to educate. Please keep them coming! Not mentioned here (except in passing) because you have to pay, but do you think the Tour Montparnasse is worth visiting? Mike
Yes, the view from the top of Montparnasse is beautiful, especially at sunset, with the Eiffel Tower in the foreground. Not in this video because it is much more expensive!
For the moment, my bad, only 15€, but that's because they have closed the terrace until further notice, then decreased the price. You can only go up to the 56th floor, glazed and less interesting
I used to love to go to the top of "La Samaratine" for a free view of central Paris. There was also a small cafe. Is it no longer available to the general public?
Did already a few you listed , but if I have to pay for them I'll pass (+/-) . Maybe park Butte de chaumont "Temple de la Sybille" is another one but definitely Parc de Saint-Cloud at the Highest point of view. Thanks for the upload.
Amazing & Lovely video!👌👍💜💚💙...emotional & personal as well🙏...Holocaust museum @ Les Marais is something you will recommend as well?...✈️🗼🥐🍇🧀🍾🥂💃🏻 2 more days to go! Thanks for all your Awesome videos!🙏...practice gives us experience!...and now your channel is Magnifique!🥰
Thank you very much! Yes, the Shoah Memorial can be interesting and also the Memorial des Martyrs de la Déportation, at the eastern tip of Ile de la Cité. But then, "Paris is a moveable feast" as Hemingway wrote, so I would not like to recommend you only sad places.
Two other rooftops are the Arc de triomphe (13 €) and Tour Montparnasse (from 18 €). Compared to your great tipps it's not in the category affordable. I will try some of them on my next visit to Paris.
Thank you for the lovely tribute -- here are words written by my uncle, who was part of the liberation of Paris. "Company B 81st now assigned to the 4th Infantry Division came into Paris on the 25th of August 1944. It was an exhilarating unforgettable experience. Thousands of Parisians greeted us with cheers, flowers, wine etc; and kisses from the girls. Another climactic day in my life. It soon ended as the 4th Division had moved on into the northeast environs of Paris receiving resistance and taking casualties." Always remember.
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Merci beaucoup
Merci à vous !
Good one again.The city of Paris should hire you!!
Thank you, but I prefer to stay independent 😂
@@paristoptips I was just kidding
@@jaikumaruttamsingh1126 Well I wasn't! LOL
Bonjour from New York! I will be visiting Paris during Christmas week this year and I have made note of a few of these rooftops...very helpful. I also want to truly thank you for the beautiful and thoughtful ending to this video. I am second generation American by way of my grandparents emigrating here from Italy. My father was only 20 years old when he was given a Purple Heart in WWII. Thank you for showing respect to the military.
It's always good to remember where we come from...
Once again an excellent and useful video, both for first time visitors to Paris, and those of us who have been so many times, you never see all of Paris... et merci beaucoup pour cet hommage émouvant à la fin.
Glad you enjoyed it! And also the more personal bit at the end...
When I was a poor student/ au pair in Paris 50+ years ago, I used to love to go to the roof-top terrace at La Samaritaine. C’est dommage that now only very wealthy people can enjoy that view.
Thanks for your videos.
You're welcome. Yes, Hotel Cheval Blanc, now at this old part of la Samaritaine, is not really affordable 😁
Yes!! That's the first thing that I thought of when I saw the title of the video. I used to go up there occasionally myself as I was a flight attendant and was in Paris frequently back then. I was just back last month and sad to see it no longer there. Cheers!
I keep coming back to your channel every day, because there is always something here for me to learn and appreciate. Thank you for the time and effort you put into making these. Keep up the fantastic work mate.
You are so welcome! Time and effort well spent for such rewarding comments!
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Such a touching tribute to Americans who died for France and for freedom everywhere. Thank you. May your heroic father rest in eternal peace.
Thanks 🙏
A very touching and moving tribute to those who have kept us free and allowed most of the free world to make our lives worthwhile!!
Thanks again for your honoring their memory
18:36
Merci!
I was moved to tears by your tribute. You have rapidly become my source for Paris research for my next trip. I greatly appreciate the time you take to travel, film and edit these videos. Merci!!
It's just a pleasure recording and editing these videos!👍
Beautiful ending.
Thanks 🙏
Those words are always in the right place!
Thank you for much needed tips for admiring of your beautiful city!
And very special moving tribute for the fallen heroes😢
PS My grandma’s cousin lived in Paris and when the war started he moved to Lyon and joined the Resistance ❤
Thanks for liking!
And for those who helped liberating Paris!
@@paristoptips you are welcome and may the memory of them lives forever. I have a feeling that some tough battles are ahead of us…
Your usual professional presentation, and you left me in tears.
Wow, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
I'll end up with a mapfull of places with your videos 😊
Keep them coming 👍
Great! One of the next ones will talk about the best ice-cream vendors, if you feel like a having a treat 😄
Bonjour from Maryland. My wife and are headed to Paris in early November for our 40th wedding anniversary. We have loved watching your videos. Full of fantastic information. We know London well, but I’ve only briefly been to Paris.
Your pronunciation of sites is rather different than what I read in my mind! This will help, and I am learning French.
Thanks again, and having worked in front of a camera for 43 years, I know the work involved in these videos!
Thanks a lot for your nice comment.
Yes, I always try to pronounce the name of the sites the French way ; I sometimes here some very funny things in other English speaking videos, with the musée d'Orsay, for example 😂
I will be in Paris later this year and look forward to seeing these sites for myself. Great video!
Thanks!
I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work!!!
@@kieranbennett9182 Glad you enjoy them!
Great video. Looking forward to seeing Paris in May 2024. Your videos are very helpful.
Glad you like them! Thanks🙏
Thank you very much for an outstanding video! I was so glad to see the American Cemetery in Suresnes featured. Not enough Americans go and visit this place. When I was there this summer, the guest book had but one visitor a day for the last few weeks. What a shame!
I also visited and took a tour of Mont Valerian, right up the street from the American Cemetery. This is a little known and visited fortress where were kept resistance fighters and Nazi "hostages" during the war. The guide explained the difference. Both groups were executed there. If anybody has any interest in WW2 history concerning Paris, Mont Valerian is well worth a visit!
IMHO both the American Cemetery and Mont Valerian are a good day's visit - maybe someday you could do a video regarding both?
Also, very close to Paris is the American Monument at Chateau-Thierry (Belleau Woods) - the place where, during WW1, the German Army got the closest to Paris and where they were stopped by two regiments of US Marines. The battlefield is still there and kept intact. It's only about 60 km east of Paris and an incredibly beautiful monument/cemetery.
Merci Beaucoup!
Thanks for bringing more valuable information...
You produce excellent videos. I am so glad I stumbled across your channel two days ago. Thank you for your efforts.
Thanks for liking them!🙏
Than you yet again for another great video! I especially appreciate the info re La Tour Saint-Jacques because I was unaware of it and I want to see a Paris I haven't seen before. Also, thank you for the beautiful tribute at the end of the video! That generation of men and women who fought overseas and supported the war effort at home were America's greatest generation.
Quel domage! La Tour Saint-Jacques will be closed when I'm there.
It has always surprised me to see how so few people knew that we could climb to the roof of Tour Saint Jacques for such a beautiful panorama...
Too bad!
very good tips for my travel, thank you! I think there's another building to suggest: the Tour Montparnasse, just in front of the Tour Eiffel it guarantees the best views in Paris, especially at night
I agree with you... But it's neither free nor cheap, at 19€...
And the video was about free or cheap rooftops
Fantastic video! We are planning for our trip this fall and I don't know how I missed your channel, but I'm a subscriber now. Many of these locations are new to me. Look forward to doing more of a deep dive when I have the time. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the comment.
It's still a small TH-cam channel, but I try to make it worth subscribing 😁
et bravo pour la chaine. meme pour un ancien parisien j'ai appris des choses. top
Ravi que ça vous plaise...
Fantastic Video!!!!!!!
Thanks 🙏
Merci beaucoup. Super reportage
Merci!🙏
Love video and the beat💕
Thank you !🙏
Fantastic video!!! We were just in Paris for our first time in May. I wish your video was available before we visited. That said, you have inspired us to go back. You did an amazing job showing both the locations and the views. I expect that we will look at this video several times in the coming months. BTW - we visited Sacre Coeur and I absolutely recommend climbing the tower. Especially on a clear blue day as in this video. Well done!
Thanks 😊
I hope you'll be able to come back, and see other panoramas!
Great video. There used to be a great spot atop Samaritaine but I believe it didn't survive the renovation. Merci.
Indeed, this great spot is now in the Cheval Blanc 5* hotel
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Thank you for the very informative, and very moving video. Very heartfelt ♥️ for the Americans killed in battle.
Happy you liked it!
U are super❤
Thanks a lot 🙏🙏🙏
dude kinda felt my eyes wet on the last sequence. Great work ! a new subscriber
Thanks for the sub!
"Expect a line here too...". Oh dear... After visiting Paris recently after several years, I was shocked by the number of lines. Pretty much everywhere it seems to me. I was used to see lines on Saturday and Sundey, so I visited during the week and left on Friday evening, but now, there seems to be no escape. It would be great if you could attempt a video for shopping without lines, if there is such a thing anymore... As far as I remember, many luxury houses have branches in other parts of the city, so what are the alternatives to queuing for hours for Goyard and others in Rue Faubourg St. Honore? (I hope you will not send me to Biarritz 😉)
I guess the lines for these brands boutiques in Le Bon Marché would be shorter. At least, it's the case for Chanel. But they will have less choice.
Superb!
Thanks 🙏
I'm returning to Paris this coming November for a slightly shorter stay - 6 nights as opposed to 8 last November. Thank you for yet another super video which continues to educate. Please keep them coming! Not mentioned here (except in passing) because you have to pay, but do you think the Tour Montparnasse is worth visiting?
Mike
Yes, the view from the top of Montparnasse is beautiful, especially at sunset, with the Eiffel Tower in the foreground.
Not in this video because it is much more expensive!
@@paristoptips How much does it cost?
For the moment, my bad, only 15€, but that's because they have closed the terrace until further notice, then decreased the price. You can only go up to the 56th floor, glazed and less interesting
@@paristoptips Well, I'm not coming until November, so I can check again nearer to my visit.
Paris tourism should have to pay you for your excellent works...
I wouldn't like to: I want to be able to criticize too!
I used to love to go to the top of "La Samaratine" for a free view of central Paris. There was also a small cafe. Is it no longer available to the general public?
No, this part of la Samaritaine is now a 5-star hotel, le Cheval Blanc. It belongs to the same group, LVMH, than La Samaritaine
Did already a few you listed , but if I have to pay for them I'll pass (+/-) . Maybe park Butte de chaumont "Temple de la Sybille" is another one but definitely Parc de Saint-Cloud at the Highest point of view. Thanks for the upload.
The whole area around the temple de la Sybille is unfortunately closed, for a long time, I guess, as it was not safe anymore to go there...
@@paristoptips 😣 Last time I was there, was in August 2019. Lovely parc
franchement : MERCI. je cherche a faire des photos de paris
Avec plaisir !
Amazing & Lovely video!👌👍💜💚💙...emotional & personal as well🙏...Holocaust museum @ Les Marais is something you will recommend as well?...✈️🗼🥐🍇🧀🍾🥂💃🏻 2 more days to go! Thanks for all your Awesome videos!🙏...practice gives us experience!...and now your channel is Magnifique!🥰
Thank you very much!
Yes, the Shoah Memorial can be interesting and also the Memorial des Martyrs de la Déportation, at the eastern tip of Ile de la Cité.
But then, "Paris is a moveable feast" as Hemingway wrote, so I would not like to recommend you only sad places.
Two other rooftops are the Arc de triomphe (13 €) and Tour Montparnasse (from 18 €). Compared to your great tipps it's not in the category affordable. I will try some of them on my next visit to Paris.
Yes, they are great too, but, as you say, pricier.
3 more to add in this list 1: Grande Arche de la Defense 2: Notre Dame & 3: Eiffel Tower
Well, nice ones, but none of them is free
No way to print suggestions.
Print the timeline!
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🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thanks!