The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux, administrative districts, referred to as arrondissements . These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements, … See more

The twenty arrondissements (French: "rounding") are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, often likened to a snail shell, starting from the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank (north bank) of the Seine.
In French, notably … See more

• Paris, je t'aime, a 2006 film composed of five-minute sequences on each arrondissement See more

• Arrondissement, for other uses of the term.
• Historical quarters of Paris
• Administration of Paris See more

Uniquely among French cities, Paris is both a municipality (commune) and a department (département). Under the PLM Law (Loi PLM) of 1982, which redefined the governance of … See more

On 11 October 1795, Paris was divided into twelve arrondissements. They were numbered from west to east. The numbers 1–9 were on the Right Bank of the Seine. The numbers were … See more

• Carmona, Michel (2002). Haussmann: His Life and Times and the Making of Modern Paris. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. p. 516. See more