Herve Champollion is a well known photographer who has travelled the world. In this book, he takes the readers within modern Paris and the Parisians Paris, and shows them the closest and most intimate Paris. His photographs invite them to move from one neighbourhood to another, meeting all the great periods that have made its history; from the XIIth century's Notre Dame to the XXIst century's Great Library. A lively and ever dynamic capital, Paris reveals its secret in this book, showing that it has always succeeded in keeping the best from each period and eternally renewing itself at the same time. Between each sequence of photography, Aude de Tocqueville writes of the capital's history from the very first Ile Saint Louis Parisians, investigating all the great workings conducted through the centuries in order to clean up, expand and make the city what it is today. Page after page, each monument, each neighbourhood, each daily life scene is newly lit. Focusing on architectural details, gardens or on the Seine's XX reflection in stone and glass surfaces, the photograph's objective gives us some of the most wonderful, sometimes unexpected, pictures of Paris.