As a top European city alongside London, Paris is also divided into numerous districts according to streets, waterways, and history.
However, unlike the name-loving British, Paris's administrative divisions are rather succinct in their official titles, consisting only of numerical identifiers from 1 to 48.
Among these 48 districts, many have been prominent at various historical periods, yet most fall into long periods of decline after their glory.
Much like the St Giles Church Parish of West London, during the Middle Ages, St Giles Church Parish was a residential area for nobles and high officials. However, nowadays the residents of St Giles are left with a group of impoverished people who cannot afford high rents yet need to commute to central London daily for work.
They crowd into mansions that once belonged to nobility and great merchants, yet due to long-term disrepair, one can only find traces of past glory on the half-collapsed walls.
