Rue de Seine, Paris 6e

A welcoming courtyard entrance, with the bicycle as a photo prop.

Subjects: Paris, 75006, courtyards, streets, bicycles

Square d'Orleans, Paris 9e

Behind massive doors, past elegant porches, you'll find a quiet world of tiny courtyards, narrow alleys and tiny trees.

Subjects: Paris, 75009, architecture, courtyards

Rue Quincampoix, Paris 3e

A tiny courtyard behind a massive wooden door, with just a tiny square of sky way up there.

Subjects: Paris, 75003, architecture, courtyards, windows, looking up

Rue du Faubourg St-Antoine, Paris 11e

If you push the huge wooden doors along the street, you will enter a world of artisans' workshops and artists' studios that seems miles away from the bustle of the city.

Subjects: Paris, 75011, architecture, passages, courtyards, alleys

Rue Daguerre, Paris 14e

A little corner of the countryside in the middle of Paris, a small provincial house, a cobblestoned courtyard and bright red geraniums in the rain.

Subjects: Paris, 75014, architecture, courtyards, alleys

Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Paris 11e

Paris hides plenty of secrets: This narrow alley between two ordinary buildings leads to the Maison des Metallos, the union hall of the metalworkers.

Subjects: Paris, 75011, alleys, courtyards, secrets, architecture

Rue du Faubourg St-Antoine, Paris 11e

A graphic image of one of many little secrets hiding behind the great wooden doors that you pass along Paris' streets.

Subjects: Paris, 75011, architecture, walls, facades, alleys, courtyards