Yves | Private Tour Guide in Paris | Licensed Expert | 254 5★ Reviews

An exceptional tour guide

“Yves was outstanding. He provided a thoughtful, entertaining, and very educational tour of the Louvre’s greatest hits. He was prompt, engaging, and even managed to keep the attention of our both of our sons (youngest age 12) throughout the tour. We will definitely tour with him again when we are in Paris again. I highly recommend him.”

Yves is the best!

We had two truly exceptional tours with Yves during our time in Paris: the 2-hour Paris Essentials tour and the 2-hour Louvre highlights tour. He is such a wealth of information and a great storyteller that both times we wish we had booked a longer tour with him. He goes out of his way to tailor the tour to your interests and really makes the most out of your time together. My partner and I are pretty nerdy tour people who love to ask lots of questions and Yves was delighted to answer all of them. In the rare instance on our first tour that he didn’t know the answer to one of them, he came prepared during our 2nd tour with the answer! A plus is that the Broaden Horizons online booking system was very easy to navigate in English (a rarity for French websites) and communication leading up to the tour was perfect. Yves was hands down one of the best tour guides we’ve ever had, and we couldn’t recommend him highly enough.

Enthralling, educational, and utterly captivating!

Enthralling, educational, and utterly captivating! Our Napoleon-themed tour guided by Yves was an absolute delight. His passion for history shone through as he expertly navigated us through the intricate details of Napoleon Bonaparte’s life and conquests. This was great as I am also an amateur Napoleonic historian. From the grandeur of his palaces to the battlefields where history was made, every moment was brought to life with vivid storytelling and insightful commentary. With a perfect blend of humor and reverence, Yves made even the most complex historical events accessible and engaging for all. Whether you’re a history buff or just curious about one of the most fascinating figures in world history, this tour is an absolute must-do. Bravo to our knowledgeable guide for and unforgettable journey through the footsteps of Napoleon!

The best! A dream come true

“I can say without a doubt that the Private Tour of the Louvre with Broaden Horizons was the BEST investment we made in Europe.

Yves is an excellent, knowledgeable guide who opens the doors to fascinating and well-organized knowledge. My advice is not to go to the Louvre on your own, because you will get lost a lot, and you will end up tired probably walking the same galleries. If you can make the tour with Louvre with Yves, you will learn like never before, and make the most of your visit.

Something I love is that Yves is not an amateur, he is a real expert, with a lot of knowledge about different periods and artistic movements, painting techniques and world history. At the beginning of the tour he will ask your interests and thus accommodate the tour for you.

We plan to return to Paris and return to take a tour with Broaden Horizons. Personally I love art and have done a lot of research, so I enjoyed talking to Yves about something we both love, it was like chatting with a friend.

PS. During our visits we saw other tours, huge groups, many could not even see the painting they were talking about. To spend on such a tour, better invest in a tour with Yves (which, by the way, is very good price!) and you will have a private experience. Your Spanish and English are very good so you will not have communication problems.”

Great experiences Musee Louvre & Rodin

We (four of us) took the 4-hr Friday night Louvre tour, then backed up with the Musee Rodin. Yves constructed two wonderful experiences for us. Yves is very passionate about you getting the best tour experience and a great communicator (and lovely bloke). His knowledge and stamina is amazing. We regard these tours as part of the high points of our 10-day stay in Paris.

Such a wonderful guide, for children as well as adults!

As my 13-year-old says, “Yves was the G.O.A.T.” The way he could engage my boys (11 and 13) during a 3-hour walking tour and also a 2-hour tour of the Louvre was truly impressive. We haven’t done a great job of teaching them about art/architecture in their lives so far and I was so worried they would be kind of “checked out” (they were also super tired) but he was wonderful with them, and they were riveted the whole time. He ascertained immediately how to best reach them (i.e., he knew just exactly what facts/stories would pique their interest, and how to make them laugh). I loved that, later during our trip, our son entered a cathedral and told me, “Mom, this is an example of flamboyant gothic.” He definitely wouldn’t have known or had any interest in this topic before our tour with Yves. I learned so much during our tours as well. We are now recommending him as tour guide to everyone we know.

An Exceptional Experience in Paris

“In preparation for my trip to France, I researched official options with credentialed experts for a tour of Paris. I found Yves’ website and was impressed by the various options for touring Paris and other areas of France. I decided to book the full day tour of Paris (including the Louvre) for first timers, for myself and my mother.

My mother and I were incredibly impressed by Yves’ mastery of Parisian history and his ability to customize the tour based on our interests and enthusiasm. As an art and cultural enthusiast, I was impressed with the Louvre tour since we focused on sculpture (one of my favorites) and viewed breathtakingly beautiful works of Renaissance art. Our tour was comprehensive and we covered an incredible amount of ground – it was a visual and intellectual feast! Our tour truly took our trip to Paris to the next level – it was the highlight of our trip! We are looking forward to seeing Yves again when we visit France in the future.

Thank you Yves for your dedication, enthusiasm, humour, and kindness. Wishing you continued”

Exploring the arc of art history at the Louvre

We took the evening Louvre tour with Yves and it was one of the highlights of our time in Paris. The Louvre can be overwhelming, so if your goal is to go and take a selfie with the Mona Lisa and call it good, that’s fine. I had been there before and wanted something more than just the standard audio tour. My wife and I were looking for a more unique experience with more depth exposing us to more about the works, the history of the museum, and the larger arc of art history as a whole, and that’s what we got from our tour with Yves! His selection of works to highlight during the tour was well chosen to get at that arc of art history to help the interested laypeople like us. Yves brought a ton of energy and knowledge that really drove the tour and got us involved from start to finish. As the tour went on, he was adapting some of the focus points to the topics/lines of questioning that we were focusing on throughout, providing a very personal feel to the end product of the tour. I have a technical mindset as well as an interest in history, and he picked up on that from my questions and deftly weaved elements of that into the tour as we progressed. It was obvious that he is guiding tours due to his passion for the subject matter. As a history enthusiast, I also really appreciated how he was very thorough in pointing out what he knew (and could back up with research) versus where there was some speculation in the historical consensus. As a private tour, I doubt there are any as affordable with this high of a product and I would highly recommend Yves as a guide for anyone looking for compelling depth and energy in a private tour.

Guided Louvre tours with Yves

I had two wonderful Louvre tours with Yves last week–which is to say that his energy, kindness, and informed intelligence are fresh on my mind. Our mutual ‘discovery’ of an ancient Sumerian poem–“Lamentation for the City of Ur”–one of the earliest known poems in what later became the elegiac tradition in poetry… well, that was a “wow” moment for me. (I am a writer.) That happened during our second 2-hour tour, when Yves suggested that we could simply go to the places where the crowd weren’t, and I happily agreed. So much fun to follow Yves as he nimbly guided us through African, Mesopotamian, Sumerian and other sections of the museum I might never have visited otherwise. A joy. (Yves also generously took some extra time to ensure that I had a good introduction to the Italian Renaissance galleries, our original destination before the crowds dissuaded us from spending our entire tour there.) Yves is warm, engaging, and highly knowledgeable–so I can highly recommend him as a tour guide. I’ll also say that the Louvre can be kind of overwhelming to navigate on your own… at least for me! So the tours I booked with Yves through Broaden Horizons were super extra worth it, and made my limited time in Paris much more enjoyable and worthwhile. Thanks, Yves.

The highlight of our trip!!

“This was the best investment and hands down the highlight of our trip!! We booked a tour of the Louvre with Yves. The Louvre is huge and there is so much to see. In two hours, Yves managed to show us an incredible amount. He is deeply knowledgeable about art history, and it was amazingly helpful to have him contextualize what we were seeing for us. We are already planning to book with him again the next time we are in Paris. Don’t hesitate—this is an experience that is worth every penny!!”

Paris historical tour

Fascinating, educational and fun tour in Paris. Private guide who was passionate and knowledgeable and tailored the tour specifically for me.

Great Historic Tour with Relatable and Fun Guide

Yves curated a private tour of Napoleonic history for my history buff spouse and myself. We had such a great time walking around learning about Napoleon I and Napoleon III and the impact they had on the city of Paris. I am a history buff but not nearly as knowledgeable about Napoleon as my spouse, and Yves was able to both jump into deep dives for my spouse as well as explaining things high level for me. We will be back for other tours – what a fantastic experience!

Yves is a wonderful guide!

I booked a tour with Broaden Horizons and had Yves as my guide. Since nobody else booked a tour that day, I was lucky to have Yves to myself. He was not only very well informed and interesting, he went out of his way to give me as much information as possible based on my personal curiosity. In other words, an almost tailor made tour! Chapeau to Broaden Horizons for having such a wonderful guide