Books Set in Paris

Hemingway's cafés, Hugo's Notre-Dame, Patti Smith's hotel rooms, Proust's Combray-by-way-of-Paris — the City of Light has shaped more novels than any other.

15 novels mapped, with every real-world location, the history of each place, and what's there today.

All 15 maps set in Paris

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway locations map
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens locations map
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo locations map
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie locations map
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind locations map
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn locations map
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown locations map
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth locations map
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery locations map
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab locations map
• The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley locations map
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain locations map
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux locations map
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas locations map
• Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes locations map

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