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Hidden Paris Thinkers Stories and Courtyards

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This is not a typical walking tour. Led by a Paris-based scholar in anthropology and aesthetics, this experience invites you to read the city as a living text. We explore the hidden layers of Paris—forgotten courtyards, underground catacombs, symbolic façades, and marginal spaces that speak in signs. Before your visit, you receive a detailed form to shape the tour yourself: you select from a wide range of historical eras, artistic currents, urban atmospheres, and culinary worlds. The result is a fully customized experience that reflects your interests—whether you're drawn to surrealist cafés, revolutionary graffiti, immigrant kitchens, or the traces of thinkers and artists. Throughout the walk, we use tools from urban semiotics, anthropology, and social history to uncover meanings beneath the surface. This is a sensorial and intellectual journey—one that transforms how you see, hear, and inhabit the city.

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  • Government Fees
  • Meals
  • Private transportation
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Promenade Maurice Carême
75004 Paris, France

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Discover Paris beyond postcards. In this walking tour, we explore hidden courtyards, secret passages, and forgotten stories woven into the city’s stones. Inspired by the lives of remarkable figures – from Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Foucault, and Freud to Marie Curie, Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Durkheim, Jacques Lacan, and André Breton – we trace their presence through cafés, cemeteries, studios, and libraries. Depending on your interests, we dive into surrealism or existentialism, revolutions or culinary cultures – from royal feasts to immigrant kitchens. Along the way, I share little-known anecdotes and sensorial insights drawn from my background in philosophy and music aesthetics. We end by the Seine, where we pause, reflect, and feel the city as a living being. This is not a tour of monuments, but of meaning.
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  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Hidden Paris Thinkers Stories and Courtyards?

A: You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund. For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CEST). Read more Apr 2025

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.

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Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Hidden Paris Thinkers Stories and Courtyards?
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You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.
  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CEST).
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Q: What's included in the price?
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The following is included:
  • Government Fees.
The following is NOT included:
  • Meals.
  • Private transportation.
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Q: What is the minimum age for this tour?
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There is no minimum age for this tour, so bring your wee one along for an adventure. This tour requires at least one adult to accompany children..

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If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.

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Accessibility information for the Hidden Paris Thinkers Stories and Courtyards is as follows:

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Hidden Paris Thinkers Stories and Courtyards will be included in your confirmation email from City Boat Tours. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!

 

 

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