It’s exactly 170 years since Baron Haussmann began his radical transformation of Paris. Although he had his critics, Haussmann had an enormous impact on Paris. Here are 10 ways he sought to beautify the city.

The winter is arguably the best time to visit Paris because it’s affordable, romantic, uncrowded, and full of extraordinary surprises both indoors and outside.

The annual lights show in the Jardin des Plantes features giant illuminated lanterns presented in a circuit through the gardens and charming menagerie. Enjoy photos from this year’s event, themed “Mini Mondes.”

The new Paris Olympics mascots, the city’s top Japanese restaurants, a memorial garden for the victims of the 2015 terrorist attacks, and more news from Paris.

François Ozon’s delectable bonbon of a film shows its ironic hand right from the title. Mon Crime (literally “my crime”) evokes how the characters take a proprietary attitude to a felony, in this case murder, as if it were a jewel.

“Un Petit Frère,” directed by Léonor Serraille, played surprisingly briefly at mainline Parisian cinemas. Though it hasn’t been a big commercial smash, it’s an interesting and moving film.

Lost in Frenchlation opens up the world of French cinema to an English-speaking audience through public film screenings, private events and themed walking tours of Paris.

A public toilet that’s an Art Nouveau jewel, movies filmed in Paris, La Zarra’s Eurovision song, solar panels on Paris rooftops, and more news from the City of Light.

From the hilltop heights of Montmartre to the sexy private rooms at Lapérouse, Paris serves up impossibly romantic settings for kissing. Here are some of the top spots, courtesy of a newly published pocket guide.

Ah Paris! World capital of romance, with endless options for painting the town red. With love from Team BP, here are 10 favorite restaurants for a romantic rendez-vous.

Paris pays homage to Queen Elizabeth II, the city cuts energy use by 10 percent, a celebratory year for Picasso, romance on the metro and more news from the capital.

The history of chocolate, and its circuitous route to Paris, is not for the squeamish. From human sacrifice to the infamous Spanish Inquisition, the harvesting of cacao seeds for the production of chocolate has tortured, enslaved, and seduced.

Lost in Frenchlation opens up the world of French cinema to an English-speaking audience through public film screenings, private events and themed walking tours of Paris.

The remarkable story of Arthur Cravan, part-time Parisian and full-time provocateur, his life in the early 20th century as fabricated as a work of art.

Founded during the Roaring Twenties, this famous brasserie immediately drew the artists, writers, and expats who frequented the Montparnasse district. Here’s a look at La Coupole today.

In the latest in our “Flâneries” series of walking tours, Marian Jones discovers a little corner of Paris near the Edgar Quinet metro station that’s a melange of the stylish and the saucy, the everyday and the Belle Époque.