| The American Church on quai d'Orsay, together with the American College nearby at 31 av Bosquet, is a nodal point in the well-organized life of Paris's large American community; its noticeboard usually plastered with job and accommodation offers and demands. Newspapers reporting on French foreign policy use "the quai d'Orsay" to refer to the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), which sits next to the Esplanade des Invalides and the Palais Bourbon, home of the Assemblée Nationale. Napoleon, never a great one for democracy, had the riverfront facade of the Palais Bourbon done to match the pseudo-Greek of the Madeleine. The result is an entrance that sheds little light on what's happening within. Just to the southwest, and in stark contrast to the austerity of much of the rest of the quartier, is the attractive, villagey wedge of early nineteenth-century streets between avenue Bosquet and the Invalides. Chief among them is the lively market street rue Cler, whose cross-streets, rue de Grenelle and rue St-Dominique, are full of neighbourhood shops, posh bistrots and little hotels.
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