Driving through central Paris. Madness?

[bennyboydurham]

Gents, final day of our Euro trip tomorrow and currently in Brittany. I've nagged Mrs B into letting me drop in on the air museum at Le Bourget to have a nose around Concorde on the way back to Calais. I'm thinking it would be good to stop off for a bite for lunch and some touristy pics on the way there. This would entail a detour through the middle of Paris. We have a TomTom so I could just direct it to a parking garage in the centre. My worry is, are we likely to spend hours and hours trying to do it? Is parking impossible? Will we end up very angry and frustrated/divorced with the stress? Should I just stick with the peripherique and forget a lunch by the Seine?

PS - not going through the tunnel until 10pm, so not in a huge rush.

[bennyboydurham]

Quick update. Plugged the satnav to take us through the city and got straight there, no problems. Few snaps of the Eiffel Tower, dumped the car at a very nice underground car park (playing classical music!) to dive into the George 5 Hotel to get raped for a £100 lunch and off we went. Arc de Triomphe was a bit like wacky races but I'd say Paris on a Saturday was a walk in the park compared to plenty of other cities. Almost at Le Bourget now, I'll stick a few photos of Concorde up if I get a chance.