1. As an accompaniment to meals they will give you mustard instead of butter for your bread.

2. Picasso delighted us all by creating a statue in Paris where a cat is about to do its business, I guess done as a mark of distinction of being the city with the most amount of pets in Europe.

3. It is normal to see proper jews asking for money in the streets.

4. Police have baseball caps.

5. 27 people have decided to commit suicide at the Eiffel Tower.

6. Paris has even got a vampire’s museum in the neighborhood of Les Lilas.

7. Bikini born in Paris in 1946!

8. On the first floor of the Eiffel Tower you can vote to decide its future colour.

9. Gustave Eiffel submitted his project to other cities before Paris, including Barcelona.

10. There is controversy about which is the oldest house in Paris, both have 6 centuries of history and are at the 51 rue de Montmorency and 5 rue Volta.

11. Paris has the world’s most famous cemetery. In Cimitiere du Pere-Lachaise you still can visit people like George’s Bizet, Gertrude Stein (The lady who gave house to the Lost Generation, among them Ernest Hemingway), Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde and the legendary rock of the Doors, Jim Morrison.

12. Curious is the fact that after the French Revolution of 1789, three streets were set very close together called: Rue de la Liberte, rue de la Fraternité, and rue de la Egalité, but none of them is colossal. Curiously, frem them emanates a more important called the Ville de Progrés, maybe wanting to tell us that the Revolution means progress? Interesting …

13. Chevalier de le Barre, a lad of 19 years executed in Paris for being herectic, had a bronze statue in the city that was melted to make cannons during the Napoleonic era. The French people chose to rebuild it by themselves, now next to the Sacred Heart.

14. In 2001 the left wing won the elections in Paris. Their first reform was to include bus, taxi and bike lanes. The same mayor got run over by a bike and banned the bikes for a coupel of years…

15. Among the famous catacombs of Paris, by which one can walk for at least an hour, there is a small room before the important area that has a panel saying “Be careful, here starts the Empire of Death” a phrase of Jacques Dellile.