Paris Itinerary (please help to take a look)

"anything else we didn't get to do..." Relax :-)

Just read Chartres is currently under renovation, so might be skipping it...

Wow. I'm tired just reading it. :-) I'd suggest keeping these for each day, but setting yourself up for being ready to drop one. As an example, Friday the 2nd, Sacre Coer and Montmarte, unless you're speed walking or skipping lots of stuff, can take a whole afternoon and into the early evening. Each of the gardens that day can take a couple of hours with Luxembourg alone being huge. Now, you could just stroll through from one end to the other, and that's fine, it will give you an idea of the park, the environment, but you may also decide at that point in your trip, to buy a pain au chocolate from a local shop and sit and eat and watch the people go by. If you're going to be in the Luxembourg, then head over to Maison Kayser at 87 Rue d'Assas, just off the southern end of the park. They have been voted one the best baguettes in Paris, and the rest of their stuff is none too shabby neither. One big mistake a lot of people make in Paris is to not adjust their tempo. The city will still be there in five years time. Enjoy the experience as much as the sights. But maybe that's me. You seem to have loaded up lots of great sights. If that's how you like to roll, then I am sure you'll have a wonderful time. But leave yourself flexible, just in case the spirit of Paris captures you and you don't hit every site. Prioritize out of that list the "must-sees" and put at least one on every day and the leave the rest of the day flexible with several options. And above all, have fun!!

Yup, I'm worn out too! What did you see the first time you were there? Or are you revisiting places?
I don't know anything about some of your sights (musee Nissim de Camondo, Chantilly, Vaux-le-Vicomte) but I'll offer a few thoughts: Doesn't matter whether you see Marmottan or Giverny first. Marmottan and Marais are all the way across town from each other, why do them the same day? Consider doing Marais along with Promenade Plantee and Vincennes, all on the east side of the city. Combine the Orangerie, Concorde, Pont Alexandre III, Champs, and Arc which are close together. Orangerie will likely not be nearly as crowded as Louvre and Orsay. The Louvre and Orsay are also nearby, you could do one or the other (but not both the same day). Pace yourself, assume you will return, etc. Have fun!

The museum pass is causing you to see too many museums crunched together, then you are walking too many parks crunched together. You need to spread it out and plan a monument, museum, and green space on the same day. Otherwise, it will feel like cramming for an exam. You will have seen it all, but remember nothing. In my opinion, a museum pass isn't the place to save money if it is distorting the equilibrium of your trip when you've spent so much to get over there. And I'm a major coupon clipper. Chantilly takes a whole day b/c it is both an important museum and has large grounds as well as the famous horse stables. We took the train there. It's a couple of kilometers from the train station to the chateau and stables. Vaux-le-Vicomte is also a separate day. That too is a major haul out of town. With limited time it's not worth fighting the crowds on the free Sunday if you have other things to do. Combine the Promenade Plantee with the Chateau de Vincennes because the Promenade ends near there. You should try to make other combinations like that, and don't try to do all the museums along the Rue de Rivoli. Just pick the one or two that interests you most. I had created a revised itinerary, but the website failed. I either took too long or it was too long. Almost everything you had was on it, but more geographically balanced, which even left room for some shopping at the end.
Bon Voyage and don't forget to enjoy the chocolate.

Thanks all! We will be staying in the Marais area during our first 4 days, so we put Marais/Victor Hugo's house after visiting Marmottan. Also i'm assuming we don't need too much time in Victor Hugo's house anyway. Because we plan to visit Giverny Monet Garden on the second day and not sure whether to visit Marmottan before/after, so we put Marmottan on the first day prior visiting Giverny. (and we will be staying nearby Louvre during the last 5 days) if taking out Chartres, what else can we add? ps. We will be re-visiting Louvre and Orsay because we didn't finish last time we visited. And we have already visited Versailles & Foundinblue. thanks in advance!

If going to both the Musee D'Orsay and the Orangerie, try to go to the Orangerie first and get the combo ticket with the Musee D'Orsay. That way you won't have to stand in line at the Orsay.

I have never seen such a jam packed itinerary, yikes. Rouen is a full day to itself, as Chantilly is also ( as noted by Bets).
I would skip Champs Elysees ,, Cluny is way better then strip mall on busy street. Seriously , too many museums on same days, remember you shouldn't just be checking off boxes on your "must see list" but perhaps enjoying yourself too.

Paris is FULL of museums...doesn't mean you have to spend your entire Parisian vacation inside of them. Get out and about and just roam and enjoy the city. Maybe consider taking a bike tour. Been to Paris more times than I can count, but just took my 1st Paris Bike Tour this past June, and it was wonderful fun with new places that I had never visited.

Thanks all for all your suggestions! I think we will skip Chartres this time and maybe not use the 2 day Paris museum pass. this will definitely make our trip more relaxing. Because we are going during the fall/winter shoulder, there are 2-3 places that we have to go on/before certain days so it somewhat made our itinerary not so flexible.

Take a day "off" and do some shopping....

I agree with everything everyone has said already. The Musee Nissim de Camondo, Vaux-le-Vicomte and the Luxembourg Gardens are three of my top favorites. I would group Parc Monceau and Musee Nissim de Camondo together though, since they are side by side. My favorite thing to do in Paris is walk around Ile Saint Louis, Ile de la Cite then along the Seine to the Grand Palais, then back on the other side of the river... walk through and sit and enjoy the Luxembourg Gardens... and sit at outside cafes (may be too cold when you're there though). So I agree with others, eliminate what isn't top priority and enjoy more of Paris itself.

As someone who lives near the Chateau of Vincennes, I can suggest with the clearest of consciences that you leave it off of your sight-seeing list. More on organizing things by neighborhood: I forget if someone has already suggested this, but move the Pont Alexandre III visit to the day you're doing Champs-elysées, Arc de Triomphe, PLace de la Concorde, Petit/Grand Palais . . those are all located in general together (i.e. in a logical succession). The pont is nowhere near the Parc Monceau (which is another "nice, but not essential" site, but can be fit in nicely with Nissim-Camondo/Jacquemart-Andrée if you're definitely going to those).

I may be a minority here but the Victor Hugo house was extremely boring and a waste of time and money. It was one of those RS sites that was listed as free; it wasn't. And we are literary people; we collect books, especially the classics. If you must see this site, I would leave it for one of those sites that are "if there is enough time".