A little tip for finding your way around Paris: Address numbers on north/south roads start at the Seine and get higher, the further out from the river you go. On east/west streets, the numbers start in the east and get higher as you travel west. I remember it as following the direction of the sun.
This can be very helpful when trying to figure out which direction to go when you come up from a metro station and try to orient yourself. Unless you travel up a vaguely diagonal street such as Rue de la Roquette, in which case you will believe you are going north and the numbers should get bigger, but in fact you are going east and the numbers are going down. You will not realize it till you have gone blocks out of your way, but will otherwise be saved oodles of wrong-directions by this simple factoid.
This can be very helpful when trying to figure out which direction to go when you come up from a metro station and try to orient yourself. Unless you travel up a vaguely diagonal street such as Rue de la Roquette, in which case you will believe you are going north and the numbers should get bigger, but in fact you are going east and the numbers are going down. You will not realize it till you have gone blocks out of your way, but will otherwise be saved oodles of wrong-directions by this simple factoid.
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