Paris

Paris is one of the world's top tourist destinations: home to several dozen international organizations, large and small: European hub for trucking, railroad freight system, the highspeed TGV passenger trains, and inland waterways.The urban splendor of the City of Light and of its famous landmarks is legendary: the River Seine and the bridges spanning it; Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, and Sainte Chapelle; the Eiffel Tower and Arc cle Triomphe. While strolling through Paris, you'll find it also offers astoundingly beautiful streets, parks, and neighborhoods: the Latin Quarter with its labyrinthine side streets and the Marais with its 17th century mansions; the Luxembourg and Tuileries gardens and the Bois de Boulogne; the grands boulevards and avenue des Champs Elysees; the historic place cle la Concorde and diminutive place de Furstemberg.In many ways it's more modern than most North American cities.Despite its many illustrious dead, Paris is very much alive and vibrant.Paris has long been a city that visitors either love or hate, or perhaps love to hate. Probably the most architecturally stunning of all European capitals, it is noted also, perhaps unfairly, for being inhabited by some aggressive and unlovely people.

Much about Paris seems unchanging, almost eternal: the broad boule. vards, the splendid buildings, the silvery skein of the Seine winding through the city center, the sidewalk cafes. Illusion, of course. Central Paris, as we've come to know and love it (or some of us have) is largely the creation of one Georges Eugene Haussmann (1809 -91), a financier and urban planner who under Napoleon III's approving eye imposed his own grand vision on the city.

But even if central Paris hasn't changed much since Baron HaussmanWs time, what goes on behind those elegant facades is excitingly cf. fervescent. A new entrepreneurial and international spirit is blow in, away the cobwebs of tradition. Once content to be the capital of France and of a colonial empire, Paris now aspires to be the center, if not the capital, of a powerful, unified Europe.

This new vigor expresses itself in dozens of ways, among them the bold, expansive mergers and acquisitions of many French companies, emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs and chief executives who think in European and global terms, and the increasing aggressiveness of banks.

Paris is served by two major international airports: Charles de GaulleRoissy, north of the city, and Orly, to the south. Roissy or CDG, as it's usually known, is an austere example of people management at its best. Thanks to a design that treats passengers almost as though they were inanimate objects on a conveyor belt, the airport never seems crowded, though it often is.





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