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			Follow the Paris Film Trails and explore famous or little-known parts of the city that have featured in classic movies. Over 700 film shoots take place in Paris each year, and some 4,000 different outside locations have been used. The Film Trails are pocket guides for lovers of Paris and the cinema. A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant,Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. Follow the steps of Remy and discover Paris as you never yet saw it!

	1 - The Eiffel Tour
	The Eiffel Tower, is how Remy realizes he has arrived in this beautiful city. He finds himself on the rooftops and gazes in awe as he admires the city of his culinary dreams. Designed by the engineer Gustave Eiffel for the universal exhibition of 1889, it should have been taken down shortly afterwards, but its scientific use postponed its demolition. It was used as a weather station and was home to a radio station, in 1921 and the first television trials in 1925. Today, a radio and television transmitter is still located on top of the tower. The Eiffel Tower, 324 metres high, has become the symbol of France and of Paris: it has received more than 220 million visitors since its construction.
	2 - Paris sewers
	Remy’s family settles in the sewers of Paris upon their arrival below the city. The sewers symbolize where Remy comes from and provide a stark contrast to where he wants to live - in the human world pursuing his dream of becoming a chef. The visit of the Paris sewers goes deep into the bowels of Paris, in subterranean galleries, where the water cycle and the role of the Paris sewer workers are presented. Around 1200 AD, Philippe Auguste paved the streets of Paris and provided a drainage channel down the middle. In 1850, the Baron Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine, and the engineer Belgrand developed the sewer network and water supply. A double water distribution network (drinking and nondrinking water) and a sewer network were thus created. The Paris network includes 2100 km of galleries.
	3 - Paris see from the Seine
	Trying to escape from Skinner, the tyrant chef, Remy jumps from bridge to bridge. He finally gets away by jumping between the boats on the river while Skinner falls into the water. From the Eiffel Tower, historical Paris is waiting to be viewed: the Palais de Tokyo, the Grand and Petit Palais, the National Assembly, the Louvre, the Ile de la Cité... Next, once past the Charles de Gaulle bridge, the modern city appears: the Ministry of Finance, the Paris-Bercy sports centre with its grassy hills, the tall towers of the National library. Yachts are moored at the Arsenal basin, dug into the moats of the former Bastille fortress. Many freshwater sailors live in this small port in the centre of Paris all year round. Paris is both the second river port in Europe and the first in the world for tourist trips: more than 5 million visitors each year.
	4 - The Exterminator Shop
	Remy’s father warns Remy that the Exterminator Shop exemplifies what humans do to rats. Startled but undeterred, Remy believes a relationship with human beings is possible. Founded in 1872, Julien Aurouze and Co., specialists of pest control for more than a century, provide their services to Parisians with more than 150 different products in a shop with a period front. Treatment with insecticide, rat extermination, disinfection, mole extermination, treatment against pigeons, wood treatment, termites, etc. An out-of-theordinary shop to be discovered in the centre of Paris!
			8, rue des halles - Paris 1er
	5 - Bridges in Paris
	The bank of the Seine River is where Remy’s life changes. Many bridges in Paris served as inspiration for the bridges in the film including Pont au Double and Pont St.-Michel bridges. Paris has 37 bridges over the Seine. 3 footbridges and 2 railway bridges. The oldest bridge is the Pont Neuf (1607), one of the most famous bridges is Pont Alexandre III, symbol of Franco-Russian friendship sealed between the Tsar Alexander III of Russia and French President Sadi Carnot. The 3 most recent are the Charles de Gaulle bridge (1996), the Solférino footbridge (1999), and the Simone de Beauvoir footbridge opened in 2006.
	6 - Gusteau's
	Gusteau’s Restaurant was home to the most famous chef in Paris. At one time, it was a fivestar culinary destination of Paris and represents the best of the best to Remy. It is here that Remy pursues his dream of becoming a chef like his hero Gusteau. You won’t find a Gusteau restaurant in Paris. It is an allusion to La Tour d’Argent, the famous establishment on the Quai de la Tournelle that inspired the film’s makers. Since 1937, diners at this legendary restaurant have enjoyed a magnificent sixth-floor view over Notre Dame and Paris.
			15, quai de la Tournelle - Paris 5ème

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