=== Vacation in Paris 13th arrondissement === In a vacation apartment in Paris 13th arrondissement, vacationers are not confronted with the great streams of tourists who visit the most famous sights of the capital. Thus anyone who wants a comfortable overnight stay but nonetheless short distances to the City, is in the right place with a vacation apartment in Paris 13th arrondissement. The former workers quarter arose in the mid-19th century. In the 13th arrondissement, the first automobile factory in the world was founded in 1891. As well, the Meunier chocolate factory was located here. Today the district is chiefly known for its Asian quarter and as the site of the French National Library. Restaurant-lovers will use a stay in a vacation house in Paris 13th arrondissement for a visit to the numerous Asiatic restaurants. Around the circular Place d`Italie vacationers find the most important Boulevards with a great number of stores and restaurants. One of the few surviving industrial buildings houses the French National Library. The Gobelins Manufactury, founded already in 1607, today serves as a workshop and museum, and recalls the long industrial history of the district. Anyone who books a vacation house in the 13th arrondissement finds himself near the Hôspital de la Salpétrière, probably the most famous psychiatric institution in Europe. Sigmund Freud was apprenticed there, and a great number of medical-technical advances made. The facility sadly also made headlines when Princess Diana died here after her auto accident.