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Bravo! Wow! Thank you for bringing me a Paris that I want but can't find. Your thoughts about Paris are insightful in a way that I can never get inside of as a tourist, making your videos what I am looking for when I need a virtual dose of Paris. Your video presentation is beyond words, highly skilled, beautiful cinematography, showing off Paris and her abundant diversity. You sharing the blessings and curses of the tourist Paris versus authentic Paris is unique and special... please explore that more. Your views of Paris I don't see from the outside and it's so interesting to a Paris enthusiast. Here is Tremendous creativity. Here is a great learning experience for Parisophiles in love with this city. Please...More of intimate Paris hosted by a Brilliant Creative Philosopher Resident 🎉✊👏👏👏👏👏🌞🌹 Subscribed.🌹

I live in Le Marais, since 2 years. It can be touristy but even just today as I was coming back from getting groceries, I said to myself how much I love my neighbourhood.

Le Marais kept a piece of my heart after meeting one of the local residents who showed me a most unforgettable romantic evening. It's true that Parisians always keep a bottle of champagne in their fridges. 😊

I have to say that the Marais - my old neighbourhood - was at its most magical during the lockdowns: you could walk along its streets in the evenings and be the only person around. It truly felt like entering another time, free of disneylands and instagrams. :)

Your lovely and transparent and poetic in your realistic honesty. Well realized personal extracts of your place. A pleasure....

Love the pussycat and you looked very stylish. As I get older, I tend to stay away from crowds and traffic, I treasure the little museum and uncrowded green spaces off the beaten track. I live in London and it's a luxury to be alone in a little park or on a path, everyone tends to go to the same places, which I avoid as much as possible. Lots of cities/areas are losing their individuality and pandering to the instagram/social media crowd.

Well done video-classy, interesting and thought provoking. Same can be said about the presenter.

😅Ah yes, it’s the little hidden gems that make our days brighter. Merci

Phenomenal, The streets of Paris with the background voice of yours; explaining the details and perspectives. Its truly a magical place called Le Marais, Paris.

You are literally the most enchanting woman on RU-vid.

So true, I felt that “togetherness” in the Marais as well, this past June when visiting Paris. So much going on in the Marais, and definitely the “go to” place. Thanks for live streaming. I love to be surrounded by beauty, and Paris is the place. Parisians should not take beauty for granted. 🙋‍♀️ Great replay 😊

Lovely and poetic content, as usual. Thanks for opening a part of your world for us 😊

Wonderful essay. Thank you! And great to meet Calvin. I never meta a musing Aida vid I didn’t enjoy. Fascinating to see what you’ve chosen to highlight-I love wandering and finding eccentricities like the centuries old button store across from the Cambridge Bar

Thank you so much for a very wonderful insightful video. We very much like your style of describing the city. Very calming and honest.

Merci Aida for this holistic approach to Le Marais, it’s always on my “browsing list” when I’m in Paris. Will follow some of your tips as well. 🥰

Bonjour Aida, I discovered your channel and sincerely enjoy the content. When we return to Paris, we'll be sure to take a few hours to stroll the streets of the Marais and enjoy a cup of fine coffee.

You say you are a 'content creator,' not a 'philosopher.' My dear Aida, you are, in fact, the resident 'philosopher' of Le Marais. It flows magically as you speak and guide us along on your enchanting travels across Paris. I believe I relish this aspect of your blogs more so than the actual places you take us. In the least, I cherish when you slide into a philosophical aside. I must visit Paris soon to see it through what you have shared AND to experience the philosophical transits along the way. Thank you, Aida for both aspects!❤️

Beautiful video!

In the few times I've been to Paris I didn't even know that the Marais was a neighborhood to see. In my last visit I just walked around the outskirts of it to see Hôtel de Ville. I was going to go to Maison Européenne de la Photographie but couldn't make it. Next time. Glad kitty is ok.

I love le Marais, my sister in law stays there. I get a sense of what you are staying. I stay in 5eme so we still have places that are quietly pretty😅 and overlooked by many.

You say, you are a "content creator," not a philosopher. My dear, Aida, you are, in fact, the 'Philosopher of Le Marais.' As you take us along on your traverses of Paris, your philosophical side magically emerges. It flows with the scenery and, indeed, enhances it. I must visit Paris soon to see and feel and breath the essence of this city AND be inspired as you clearly are toward philosophical introspections. Thank you, Aida., for each of these aspects!🤎

Merci, Aida! Discovered yours videos about Paris yesterday and come back for more. Your content makes me think about a good writers who become video-creators, Anthony Bourdain, for example. Well, we'll see how good you're outside of France, I just spotted your creations about Brussel ( which no one called " excellent " before) and Australia. Au revoir!

Very well done, love the atmosphere there, always taking pictures in that area, perfect for street and fashion photography

I am a connoisseur of your channel.

Many useful information about your beautiful nearberhood thanks

Paris has been my first and last stops when visiting France and Italy since I was able to start traveling in 2022. (And Paris as a child, then as a young man...) So yes, I cry when I leave, I cry when I arrive, my eyes mist up even thinking about returning. Salut

Would like to go to Paris one-day. Need to brush up on mi francise.

Another pretty film. Thankyou! Bonjour to my ex. He lives in the Marais.

Le Marais still has that unique, cozy feeling with cafes and gardens and mini-plots to relax...only thriving in a Parisienne district. I can ignore the gawdy stuff..and maybe they'll go away. But the buildings, mansions, walkways, alleys belong only to that district. Nice visit! 😊

In 2006, we stayed on Rue du Foin. Far fewer tourists so more authentic at the time…most of the shop signs were still en français. So glad we did it then, rather than now. We started most days with a stop at Le Moulin de Rosa (or whatever boulangerie was there in 2006) and managed to close Royal Turenne a couple of times.

Aww sweet kitty. I have a boy orange tabby like yours. I also lived in Paris - years ago - age 18-20. It was very different then. Tourists were there, but not noticed much. Now it’s so crowded unfortunately- but still special and worth the hassles. I’m going again soon - can’t wait!

Thank you for sharing this

Beatiful video 💕 Thank you so much 🌞✨️✨️✨️

Stylish informative great content amusing , sorry I had to get that in 💥keep up the good work 👍

Last winter, I rented an apartment in Le Marais for a month from December into January. It was a few steps from St. Paul's Church on Rue Sevigne, and it had a very neighborhood vibe. It was so much different from this summer video. I walked my dog around the Place de Vosges every morning. Don't worry. We stayed on the sidewalk outside the fence where dogs are not prohibited. I loved that Marais. This one not so much.

Merci Aida !

Living in the Marais, what's the difference between living in the 3rd and living in the 4th arrondissement? Which is preferable?

hey thx !! comin to ya from a searing place inland from the coast with a wee comment...bein the star of the show,,,here in ca,,its been millennial~fied,,,,and not for the better!! stay cool!:)

Intimate and captivating.... Brought back memories of my short stay in a lovely 18m2 tiny central Paris flat many moons ago. Can''t remember the area called but probably not far from Le Marais! :)

Loving your content and this video is no different.

I blame the vloggers who keep showing all these gems of a place and spoil it for the rest 😢. Can’t wait to get back to Paris again next year 🥰

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Thanks again Aida. Your videos are always very well made. I’ll be in Paris again in about 10 days from now. I buy my marionettes on the Isle Saint-Louis (@ Clair de Rêve), and will be staying at Montmartre. The Marais is lovely, but so is the wider neighborhood, Quartier Bastille, Jardin des Plantes et cetera. Cheers, Koen from Brussels

J’adore tes robes! Where do you get them?

I had the privilege of visiting Paris and the Marais about 30 year ago. It is an astoundingly beautiful area. Maybe even then it was a bit "trendy." I suppose every place has its problems. To be ugly is a curse, but to be beautiful can also be a curse. I'm from a part of the USA that has been frequently described as the most hideous place on Earth. We have, to my knowledge, never had a single solitary tourist in our entire history. So I suppose, different places, different problems.

Really great video. You are best

A question: When did this kiss-kiss-kiss-kiss on the cheek greeting become common? My mother's family immigrated to British Columbia in 1906 (then moved to San Francisco in 1918). Though emphatically French (my grandmother never learned any English and my aunt, a French citizen, worked as a liaison for the Free French in WWII and then was the office manager for the French Consulate until her death in 1962) this kiss-etc-thing was unknown to them. Come to think of it, I believe the kiss-etc.-thing was unknown at the French Consulate when my aunt worked there. When my mother spent some time in the (French) home of relatives of a French friend, circa 1990, she was extremely uncomfortable with the requirement to do the kiss-etc-thing damn-near every time she crossed paths with them as the day progressed. She finally asserted herself enough to firmly proffer a handshake instead. This obligatory, continual kiss-etc.-thing must be fairly recent. It is not consistent with traditional French dignified formality. The kiss-etc.-thing does give the impression of being false, somehow. An I'm-so-special! fad (of the private-school, BCBG folks?) that become permanently enforced by repetition? Do the French of all classes do this? Did it spread through the classes? Somehow I can't imagine lefty/working-class Simone Signoret doing it. I admit that I loathe it when I have seen 0.1%er women in Manhattan doing it (presumably in movies intending to depict them accurately?). If that ain't forced and phony and slavishly conformist, well....

Thumbs up ! Merci . I ‘ve counted 42 different very elegant and cute dresses , looking forward to your next great video from Paris , how about the Night Life ?)

Excuse me how do you capture this 2000's ass TV PROGRAM ass EURO TV feeling in your productions?? Your camera movement and aesthetics and editing is so early 2000's mtv its crazy

Another great content vid Aida

Your videos are… inspiring. If I went back to making videos, I would try to follow your formula. But even if I did my best, I couldn’t match the quality of the shooting. The editing is also very well done, particularly the audio. And then there is the content. Simply put, so much to admire.

Social media and smartphone cameras have ruined most formerly best kept secrets everywhere. There have always been a lot of tourists in Paris but they tended to go to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and the Ile de la Cité for Norte Dame. Once a sleepier area becomes "hot" and economically dependent on tourism, there goes the neighborhood!

As a french boomer, I think "Le Marais" is a "zone interdite" (forbidden area) between june 15th to september 15th. Too many tourists ... For me, Paris without its students is a sad place. Perhaps that state of mind comes from too good memories as a student between 1964 and 1975?

The centre is very original, the number of foreigners of course is a blessing and a curse. I am very fond of the early architecture that wasn't bombed during the second world war. It's an interesting place to visit, but maybe a little too large as a city to reside permanently.

Merci

How about a vlog only on Pere Lachaise, some of the people buried there, why they were famous, etc. Most people don't know Abelard and Heloise but they're buried there. Tragic love story?

"I'm a content creator, not a philosopher." I beg to somewhat disagree. I mean, it is obvious that you are a content creator on RU-vid. But you're also a bit of a philosopher and a delightful story teller. 🐱

Please send Hotels love cost for 7 days.Thank you VERY much

French actress Marion COTILLARD lives in Marais district and Marais is LGBT, Jewish district too !

Lovely scenery accompanied by a good story telling. I adore your neighborhood, but like you, I am not a fan of those “Instagrammable” cafes with all the fake flowers and Versace-themed interiors. And, if I lived there, I would be annoyed with the crowds, and especially by the noise. I hope it doesn’t get worse.

OH MY GOD, Why you didn't tell that you're a "Zibaye Sharghi"? 😄

Great video! Will be going to Paris for the first time in September! Where would you recommend staying for a first timer? I am debating between oberkampf and marais 😅

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Where’ your doggie?

There you go, disrespect the Americans that liberated your country. Make us cow down to to the French!!

Phoney bologni.

...lived on rue Beautreillis six years ago...miss living in Paris...😢