Buy your Metro tickets six at a time ($6); bought individually they cost $1.50.

Transfers to the municipal bus and trolley lines are free within an hour of purchasing the Metro ticket.

Matje, who lives in Paris, includes details for the connoisseur, from a Moulin Rouge and a bateau-mouche to a yellow Metro ticket floating in a gutter.

Jairdain should be coming down the other side somewhere-she looked for him as she jostled the contents of her purse for a Metro ticket.

Me: But we had to buy two books of Metro tickets.

No Metro tickets, no postcards.

We also added Metro tickets, hotel brochures, Frosted Flakes box tops in German and anything else they wanted to remember.

One was affixed just below the hip on a sleek wool skirt, which was paired with a satin pullover elegantly decorated with rows of tiny flaps, each the size of a Metro ticket.

Anyone with an incoming Metro ticket or bus pass is admitted free of charge.

Metro tickets range from 80 cents to $2.40, depending on the length of the journey.