The central four arrondissements of the French capital have been given a new name as part of the mayor's plan to see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th arrondissements become one. Find out the new name. Paris ...

The Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre (Sacre-Coeur) stares down from the highest point in Paris, in an area of Paris called ...

Paris’s Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to wipe four of the city’s 20 historic arrondissements off the map in a bid to make the French capital “more democratic and more efficient”, according to ...

It’s time to tear up the historic map of Paris and start over. So suggests a new proposal from Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, leaked from a “confidential note” to France’s President and Prime Minister last ...

Paris’s map looks odd at first — the neighborhoods spiral outward like a snail shell. But that swirl hides centuries of history: city walls, expansion, Emperor Napoleon III’s redesign, and political ...