" Beauty is in the streets,” they say in Paris. We travelers know our favorites, Parisians know theirs. Jean Genet liked to stand with his friend Giacometti at the foot of rue Oberkampf, taking in its long uphill from the Marais to Belleville. Simone Weil loved walking the quays of Île Saint-Louis in her native river city. The scruffy streets of the ninth were François Truffaut’s muse and mother.

As cities evolve and erupt, streets change; Parisians come and go. But the beauty remains. "

― Susan Cahill , The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History