High above the streets of Paris, a bird's eye view reveals some of the chicest addresses in the capital of chic. The story of the Marais is a riches-to-rags-to-riches tale of a neighborhood that carries its scars with a decidedly bohemian style.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bohemian Rhapsody," August 2003, National Geographic magazine)