Yes, but the Etoile neighborhood is rather sterile if you ask me, with the big streets and lack of businesses. There is the Champs-Elysee with car dealships and

Yes, but the Etoile neighborhood is rather sterile if you ask me, with the big streets and lack of businesses. There is the Champs-Elysee with car dealships and over-priced cafes, and then the other boulevards with embassies and high-end apartments. It's all pretty and well done, but who's to say it wouldn't be a vibrant, diverse older neighborhood like the Marais if they'd left it.