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Originally Posted by mousquet

Gare du Nord is northern, huh. There is the Goutte d'Or district, boulevard de la Chapelle, Barbès, Stalingrad (creepy name over here, like - heil Stalin, comrade) and everything gritty where they sell heroin and crack at night.
The imperial architecture itself is cool, but so is it pretty much all over the central city.

If you want clean-looking rich people on cocaine and $300 bottles of Champagne, you go to the 8th and 16th arrondissements.
The 18th and 19th are not of that kind.

I've stayed in the 8th arrondissement before. It's okay, but it was a little boring to me. I like areas like the Latin Quarter better.