The Secret Guide: Paris

Paris fits on a table. A model of the city appears in front of you: 15 monuments you can lean into, walk around and touch. Point at one, bring your fingers together, and it rises into a frame. Then the guide tells you its secret. HOW IT WORKS Every monument keeps one secret and eight more stories. Short ones, the kind you tell out loud: why the Eiffel Tower was meant to come down in 1909, how many prisoners were really inside the Bastille on the 14th of July, who beheaded the kings of Notre-Dame and where those heads turned up two centuries later. 135 stories in all. None of them outstays its welcome. ASK IT ANYTHING Hold the microphone, speak while you hold it, then let go. The guide answers about whatever you are looking at. This is not a menu of prepared questions: it is a conversation. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT IS A LEGEND That someone cut the Eiffel Tower's lift cables before the Germans arrived is a magnificent story. It is also a story nobody has been able to document. When something is tradition rather than record, the guide says so before telling it. That, to us, is the difference between a guide and a leaflet. THE 15 MONUMENTS Eiffel Tower · Arc de Triomphe · Notre-Dame · Sacré-Cœur · Panthéon · Les Invalides · Hôtel de Ville · July Column · Luxor Obelisk · Pont Neuf · Pont Alexandre III · Musée d'Orsay · Tour Saint-Jacques · Vendôme Column · Saint-Sulpice IN FOUR LANGUAGES Spanish, English, French and Korean. Not just the interface: all 135 stories are written in all four. WHAT YOU NEED Augmented reality glasses. The narration plays offline. Open-topic questions need an internet connection: you get three free a day, and you can get more inside the app.

Paris on your table: 15 monuments, 135 stories and a guide you can ask. In five languages: Spanish, English, French, Korean and Japanese.