Paris 6th, 7th, 9th - Neighborhoods Wanvela Actually Walks

6th - Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The 6th is where Hemingway, Sartre, and de Beauvoir lived. Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots still operate at the same addresses (a café crème runs €7-8, for the legend).

Wanvela walks Rue de Buci (a 200-meter food market) for macarons at Pierre Hermé Bonaparte, then continues to Jardin du Luxembourg, the royal garden where green metal chairs are free. Almost every Saturday brings a puppet show.

7th - Le Bon Marché district

The 7th is home to the Eiffel Tower and Musée d'Orsay, but we don't walk there. We walk Rue du Bac:

• Le Bon Marché, the world's oldest luxury department store (opened 1838)
• La Grande Épicerie, Europe's priciest supermarket, but the truffle is right and the cheese counter has 200+ varieties
• Deyrolle, a 200-year-old taxidermy shop. Insects, butterflies, and birds in frames
• Café Varenne, small spot where Finance Ministry staff have lunch

9th - SoPi (South of Pigalle)

The 9th was once a bar/nightclub district, but SoPi (South of Pigalle) is the new name designers and creative-class workers gave it.

Cafés Lomi and KB CaféShop brought third-wave coffee to Paris in the 2010s. Buvette is SoPi's best bistronomy, chef Jody Williams also runs the original Buvette in NYC.

Wanvela takes clients to Musée de la Vie Romantique, George Sand's house with a garden where Chopin once walked. Free admission. Quiet most days.

"A family who'd been to Paris three times said 'enough Champs-Élysées.' We arranged 3 days through 6th, 7th, and 9th. He said 'this is the Paris the movies were talking about.'" - CAN, founder note

How Wanvela slots this into 3 days

1. Day 1, morning 6th (Saint-Germain + Luxembourg), afternoon Louvre
2. Day 2, morning 7th (Rue du Bac + Bon Marché), afternoon Musée d'Orsay
3. Day 3, morning 9th (SoPi cafés), afternoon Montmartre

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