First Arrondissement

CROSSWORD HERE

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Enrich Your Itineraries
       There are many ways to promenade across Paris. We can fix precise
points, then go adrift; we can choose, guidebook in hand, to systematically
explore a neighbourhood, or maybe catch a passing bus and ride to its terminus,
or again try to get from one place to another by a path different from those
made habitual. 
       We can also consider composing our itinerary through the imposition of
rules which, though deliberately arbitrary, will not be less constraining, so,
for example, go over a route which utilises exclusively streets which begin
with the same letter, or which proceeds in alphabetical order, or evokes a
particular chronology. 
       In practice, these itineraries are extremely difficult to work out. We
can, through randomly walking or with the help of guides, trace ones which are
more-or-less complete. For the flaneur who devotes himself to such exercises,
Paris becomes a gigantic labyrinth oriented where, as and when he peregrinates,
with, at least, the comforting feeling of thinking outside the box. 
       In my upcoming chronicles, I will pose some of these itineraries, and I
invite you to compose them with me, from the letters of the alphabet to the
succession of French kings, names of flowers, trees, birds and professions. 

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The Three Provincials
Three provincials, a wrestler, a lawyer and a photographer, are coming to spend
the day in Paris. They each come upon a different hotel, but the hotels are all
on the same street. 

A-Antoine is staying in a hotel between that of Frederick and Alfred. 
B-The hotel to which the wrestler arrived is to the left of the others. 
C-Alfred is the photographer.
D-Frederick is staying at the hotel Brighton.
E-The Hotel Brighton is beside the Hotel Aveyron.

What is Frederick's profession and who is staying at the Hotel du Commerce?

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Do you Know Paris and its History?

       Around the middle of the 19th century, many of the twelve avenues which
go off of Place d'Etoile-Charles-de-Gaulle were already built or were under
construction. 
    The Champs-Elysees is the only one which has strictly kept its name through
the turn of the century. The avenue d'Iena was, then, called boulevard d'Iena
and the avenue de la Grande-Armee, avenue de la Porte-Maillot. The nine other
arteries, large and small, which lead to the Arc de Triomphe were named:

1. Rue de l'Arc-de-Triomphe 
2. Boulevard Beaujon
3. Boulevard de l'Etoile
4. Cite de l'Etoile
5. Avenue de l'Imperatrice
6. Boulevard de Monceaux
7. Avenue de Saint-Cloud
8. Boulevard Sainte-Perine

What are they called today?