Top 6 French City & Region Travel Guides (PDF Chapters) Lonely Planet

There are few countries in Europe more stunning and diverse than France in the summertime. If you're about to plan a trip to Paris, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Arles or Toulouse this holiday season, we've put together a list of the top six french city & region travel guides for you to download and start researching your trip of a lifetime.

You can now download sections of Lonely Planet travel guides as individual PDF Chapters, making it easier and cheaper to access the information you need. With handy tips on where to go, what to see, where to eat and where to stay.

Top 6 French City & Region Travel Guides



This chapter contains the Paris Today, History, Fashion, Architecture, Literary Paris, Painting & Visual Arts, Music & Cinema, Transport, Directory A-Z and Language chapters from Lonely Planet’s Paris guidebook.


This is the Lyon & the Rhône Valley chapter from Lonely Planet's France guidebook.

Grand old Lyon, with its cobbled Unesco-listed old town, is France's third-largest metropolis and gastronomic capital. Downstream, the Rhône forges past centuries-old Côtes du Rhône vineyards yielding some of France's most respected reds, eventually reaching the rugged Gorges de l'Ardèche.


This is the Marseille to Aix-en-Provence chapter from Lonely Planet's Provence & the Côte d’Azur guidebook.


This is the Arles & the Camargue chapter from Lonely Planet's Provence & the Côte d’Azur guidebook.


Nice, with its atmospheric old town, great architectural heritage, fantastic nightlife and excellent restaurants is everyone’s favourite city. Monaco, complete with scandal-prone monarchy, throngs of VIPs and casino glamour, endlessly fascinates: come and make your own opinion!

Coverage includes: Nice, Arrière-Pays Niçois, Peillon, Peille, Corniche inférieure, Moyenne Corniche, Grande Corniche, Monaco, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Menton, Ste-Agnès and Gorbio.


Rich food, good wine and slow living: that's what this sunbaked corner of southwest France is all about. Toulouse is one of France's liveliest provincial cities. Beyond it lies a landscape dotted with sturdy bastides (fortified towns), cathedrals and country markets.

Coverage includes: Toulouse, Albi, Castres, Montauban, Moissac, Auch and Condom & around.