Paris Through the Ages  offers a series of fourteen strolls to help you discover little-known facts about the City of Light which will be revealed to you in a most entertaining and enlightening manner by Arthur Gillette.  He knows Paris.  Arthur is an American graduate of Harvard (Magna Cum Laude in French language and literature) with a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts.  He has lived in Paris since 1958 and for many years was an official at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquartered in Paris.  At UNESCO he was Editor-in-Chief of Museum International magazine.

You can just imagine what a stroll with Arthur Gillette will offer you!  As the author of the Paris Through the Ages series of nine pocket map-guides, and an expert on Paris and her monuments, your time could not be better spent.  Strolls are organized for small groups (and almost always for a party of family and/or friends) to allow people to interact and ask questions along the way, focusing on the vestiges of a single historical period -- in some cases on a single monument. Each stroll takes from two to two and a half hours and is done at a comfortable and leisurely pace.  The themes of the currently-offered strolls are: 

• Lutetia: Roman Paris  (its arena, baths and more)
• A Medieval Sampler  (Saint Germain de Prés church, the 13th century Cordeliers monastery refectory, the Cluny abbots' "townhouse")
• Learning in Paris   (university and student life in the Latin Quarter between the 12th and 16th centuries)
• The Wall Route Right Bank (follow the 12th century rampart from the Louvre to the eastern extremity of the Medieval city)
• The Wall Route Left Bank (the rampart wends its way through courtyards, mews and an underground parking lot!)
• Notre Dame Cathedral (hear about some unsolved mysteries surrounding the Grand Old Lady)
• Cradle of the Capital:  Île de la Cité (a sampling of events that marked Parisian history through 2300 years of uninterrupted habitation)
• The "Grand Century" on the Île St. Louis (an intimate round-island look at the architecture and history of some of Paris's grandest 17th century mansions, including where author James Jones lived for many years)
• The Naughty Marais (feats of derring-do whose ghosts haunt what was once THE place to live in the French capital)
• Smiling Architecture:  Parisian Art Nouveau (visit some of the masterpieces of Guimard, Chédanne, Sauvage and other Belle Epoque builders) see photo 
• 19 - 25 August 1944:  The Liberation of Paris (military and political highlights of the "glorious week" -- some grave and others humorous -  pinpointing aspects of American involvement) 
• Around rue de la Huchette: Heart of the Latin Quarter  (architectural reminiscences of Renaissance King François Ier, 19th  century poet Charles Baudelaire, a 16th century Royal Prosecutor, and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as the oldest tree in Paris, the intimate 12th-13th century St. Julien le Pauvre church and other medieval memories)
• The Mouffetard Quarter: “Quaint” PLUS  (a highway leaving Paris for Rome 2,000 years ago, rue Mouffetard still boasts a street market that has functioned since about 1350, not to forget a public fountain erected by Marie de Medici, the house where Ernest Hemingway lived in the 1930s and segments of the Medieval city rampart)
• Cool, Clean and Angular – Art Déco Architecture in Paris (some of the best Parisian samples – Samaritaine department store, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Palais de Chaillot, La Coupole Café etc. -  of the movement that inspired such great American creations as New York’s Chrysler Building, with memories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Josephine Baker, among other American luminaries)