Every sixth habitant of Paris is a foreigner. Only more than 300 thousands of them settled on legal bases within peripherique (ring road). It is almost impossible to count illegal immigrants and those, who were able to get rid of foreign status. Africans, Chinese, Russians, Japanese, Greeks, Armenians, Portuguese, British, Indians and Brazilians were living and are living here.

Arab mosque, Russian Orthodox Church, Japanese pagoda, Irish pub and Chinese supermarket are neighboring with frontispieces of Paris designed by Haussmann. Charles Aznavour’s family is from Armenia. The best caviar in the city is in Petrossian shops. Beginning with 1920 th Polish bookshop opened on the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Parisian Greeks feed tourists and students with shawarma in the Saint-Séverin Quarter. Parisian Portuguese guard porches as concierges. But for the first time they appeared long ago: the best friend of Rabelais and Montaigne was Antonio Gouveia vice-chancellor of Saint-Barb College. Latin American cabaret and clubs are always full of people. At different times from Romania to Paris have moved countess Anna de Noailles, writer Mircea Eliade, sculptor Brîncusi who is now called Brâncusi after the mode of France . Russian writer Andreï Makine has got prestigious Goncourt Reward (Prix Goncourt). Czech Milan Kundera writes novels in French. Everything has mixed and became Parisian.

Americans Left bank. Hemingway, Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Man Ray, Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Jim Morrison. American bookshops Shakespeare & Co on bunder opposite Notre Dame and Village Voice in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. American church on Orce bunder. Old bar Harry’s New York where as to city legend “Bloody Mary” cocktail was invented.

Arabs The most numerous foreign commune in Paris ; the main part of 11 th , 18 th , 19 th , 20 th districts’ population. Restaurants with North African couscous and Lebanese meze. Markets and rag fair on boulevard de la Chapelle, next to Tati shop. Smiling Zidane on huge posters. Tea-house and hammam near the Great Mosque. Concerts of North African music rai. Institute of Arabian world of Jean Nouvel.

Africans Quarter La Goutte d’Or (18 th district). Market of African goods on Dejean street . African galleries, hairdressing saloons. The Musée Dapper. Halls dedicated to black Africa in the Museum of Man (Musée de l’Homme). Images d’ailleurs cinema on la Klee street . It is polite to say “black” (noir) instead of “negro” (nègre).

Jewish eastern European Jews Ashkenazi in Marais quarter. North African Jews Sephardim in Belleville and Sentier districts. Scripturists in black coats, broadbrims and with paces. Synagogue on Pape street . The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme. Kosher restaurants and grocery shops on Rozier street .

Hindu Markets of spices, restaurants and shops in the beginning of Faubourg-Saint-Denis street and near the Northern railway station. Indian figurines, sari, traditional ornamentals, rice in deposits, spices, the latest novelties of Bollywood and cassettes with Indian music in the Passage Brady. Concerts and performances in Mandapa Center . Temple of Ganesha in La Chapelle quarter.

Chinese Big Parisian Chinatown in 13 th district and Chinese quarter in Belleville. Asian supermarket Thang Frères. Chinese antiques in gallery-pagoda on Courcelles street. Ieoh Ming Pei ’s Pyramid in Louvre. Colonial China Club with billiard and smoking hall. Menu with 500 dishes in New Nioulaville restaurant.

Creoles French overseas territories and departments (dom/tom). Cheerful music, bright dresses, crazy dances, funny and touching accent, Big opened smile. Annual Tropical carnival (the beginning of July, 12 th district). Radio station Media Tropical (92,6 fm). Art galleries on Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Shops with traditional textiles and dresses in Château-Rouge district.

Russians Auteuil , Passy, 17 th district. Saint-Alexandre-Nevski Cathedral on Daru street . Cabins built at the opening of World Fair in 1867. Russian Orthodox cemetery in the suburbs of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. Wooden church of Seraphim of Sarov on Lecourbe street . "Russian thought" newspaper. Ukrainian borsch and potato pies in canteen under the Conservatory of Sergei Rachmaninoff .

Japanese Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Kenzo. Japanese restaurants on Sainte-Anne street and around Opéra Garnier. Old Japanese pagoda – cinema La Pagode. Packs of yellow blonds that buy all in a row in Collete. Crowds of old fellow tourists with serial number on the cap and camera on the neck.