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Wools - Yep you can use Donalds route in reverse without any changes, we did on the way back once we got into Poissy.
On the way to Paris we camped in a national forest :
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Norfolk,+United+Kingdom&ll=49.378797,1.892395&spn=0.04761,0.295601&t=h&z=12
This place was huge, we walked for an hour once we dropped our bikes off and still didn't hit the other side. We decided to camp a little off the track, leave no mess. You wouldn't have known we were there. Slept in bivy bags.
Then the second day rode into Paris - got there a day early spent the night on a bench under the Eiffel Tower, wouldn't really recommend it, but it was an experience.
Once we spent that ever-so comfy night on the bench (with about an hours sleep) we grabbed some coffee and baguettes and rode to our campsite which was about 10 miles from the centre of Paris:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=48.93791,2.141376&num=1&t=h&sll=48.938401,2.15435&sspn=0.012009,0.0739&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&ll=48.945166,2.141819&spn=0.040588,0.077162&z=14
From there we rode into Paris for the day and rode to all the usual 'sights'. Then packed up on the Friday rode to Poissy from our campsite (not the Donald route) then once we arrived in Poissy we followed the Poissy route to Marines, grabbed coffee and food and rode to the forest again.