Europe’s oldest city proper, Paris began about 2,000 years ago as a small settlement on the Seine River, which winds its way through ten of the city’s 20 districts. Seen from a feng shui perspective, the bend made by the river in central Paris “embraces” the Rive Gauche (Left Bank), imparting it with a yin (feminine) energy that exerts a positive influence. “As a whole, this area is supportive of academic pursuits and mental work,” says Coxon. The area around the Sorbonne has not only produced many of the past century’s most revolutionary intellectual ideas; it also generates and supports long-term wealth, which is apparent in the old-money structures throughout St. Germain. Paris’ right bank, especially the area around the Centre Pompidou (historically a worker’s quarter) generates far less auspicious energy; people living here will “tend to be poor and predisposed towards ill health.” The former Palais Royal/Louvre museum area is also situated on the outside of the river bend, creating problems for men. Its directional orientation indicates difficulties that are variable over time, and the Ile de la Cité’s point sends damaging energy into the side of the building. “During the French Revolution,” explains Coxon, “the Palais was predisposed to accidents and hot tempers. Had the royals aimed the building in another direction, perhaps the French Revolution would never have happened,” he says. I.M. Pei’s 1989 addition of glass pyramids to the Louvre courtyard exacerbates the negative effects of the building’s orientation, adding a danger of heart attacks, especially for men. And on the Ile de la Cité, Notre Dame’s position is weak. Although it supports the judiciary buildings around it, the structure itself is “struggling,” says Diep. “Imagine an armchair: with Notre Dame, there are gaps between the arms and the seat. It works for a while, but after a time period, it starts falling.”

Because the Left Bank’s energy is so extraordinary – the only rather negative aspects being a propensity to ghostly activity, or kidney problems for long-term residents – Coxon and Diep’s suggestion would be to move several key buildings to the area. The Hôtel de Ville, Centre Pompidou and Notre Dame are all better placed here, as long as their main entrances face the Seine to increase their institutions’ and occupants’ wealth. As a museum, the Louvre is not in an ideal position but remains where it is, on the condition that the pyramids are removed.

LOUVRE/PALAIS ROYAL, STATUS QUO: The directional orientation of these buildings, both abandoned by French kings, suggest aggression, especially around the time of the French Revolution (revolutionaries gathered here to storm the Bastille). The point of the Ile de la Cité also sends damaging flows of energy into the side of the Louvre. SUGGESTION: As the most detrimental effects of this complex are long gone, the Louvre and Palais can remain where they are, if the glass pyramids in the Louvre courtyard, erected in 1989 by I.M. Pei, are removed.
CENTRE POMPIDOU, STATUS QUO: The Right Bank, historically a worker’s quarter, is situated on the outside of the river bend. People living here will tend to be poor and less healthy than those living elsewhere. The Centre Pompidou, completed in 1976, is a modern-art facility built to bring art to a more general public and has done remarkably well, considering its location. SUGGESTION: Moving the Centre to the positive Left Bank would increase its popularity and finances, as long as the main entrance faces the river.
HÔTEL DE VILLE (CITY HALL),STATUS QUO: This administrative building receives water from two sources with only one outflow, which is auspicious in the short to medium term. In the long term, however, this effect wears off and the administration, and consequently the city, will begin to falter. SUGGESTION: A move to the auspicious Left Bank, with an entrance facing the river.
NOTRE DAME, STATUS QUO: Although the Notre Dame cathedral supports Paris’ judicial buildings, the structure itself lacks long-term support (though it is one of the oldest buildings in Paris). In terms of feng shui, it’s like an armchair with gaps between the back and seat. SUGGESTION: A relocation to the Left Bank, near the Sorbonne, with the entrance facing the river.
SORBONNE: While the people who come to the Sorbonne area often start off poor, they eventually become wealthy. Lying just inland from the more social Latin Quarter, the area’s support of intellectual work and academic pursuits seems evident in that many of the past century’s greatest thinkers (such as Sartre, Lacan and Derrida) were based within the radius of a few blocks from here.

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