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(Rive Droite) would be on your right, and the Left Bank (Rive Gauche) on your left. The
bull's-eye on your map is Notre-Dame, on an island in the middle of the Seine.
Twenty arrondissements (administrative districts) spiral out from the center, like an
escargot shell. If your hotel's zip code is 75007, you know (from the last two digits) that
it's in the 7th arrondissement. The city is speckled with Métro stops, and most Parisians
locate addresses by the closest stop. So in Parisian jargon, the Eiffel Tower is on
la Rive
Gauche
(the Left Bank) in the
7ème
(7th arrondissement), zip code 75007, Mo: Trocadéro
(the nearest Métro stop).
