The Paris edit

Places with a point of view

Discover the spaces that give Paris its character.

Discover the spaces that give Paris its character. An editor’s starting point for discovering another side of Paris.

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Théâtre du Châtelet

A stage beside the Seine with music and performance at its heart, well placed for an evening that starts on foot.

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Le Trianon

A concert stop on boulevard de Rochechouart, with the neighbourhood’s café life outside and a theatre setting within.

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Élysée Montmartre

Live music on the southern edge of Montmartre, where the line-up gives the evening its direction.

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Bataclan

A historic boulevard Voltaire venue for a night chosen around the musicians and the performance, with tickets tied to each show.

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Cabaret Sauvage

The circular venue at La Villette gives concerts and club programmes a distinctive setting beside the canal.

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Le Trabendo

A live-music destination in Parc de la Villette, suited to an afternoon in the park that becomes an evening at a gig.

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New Morning

A listening destination on rue des Petites-Écuries, with jazz and other live sounds shaping the calendar.

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Le Duc des Lombards

An intimate jazz destination on rue des Lombards, where choosing the performance matters more than planning a bar crawl.

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Point Éphémère

Music and contemporary culture beside the Canal Saint-Martin, an easy place to connect a waterside walk with an evening out.

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Rosa Bonheur des Buttes-Chaumont

A guinguette stop inside the Buttes-Chaumont, where a park afternoon can turn into a social evening.

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La Machine du Moulin Rouge

A Pigalle destination with several spaces for live music and club nights, best approached through the programme for your date.

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Folies Bergère

The music-hall facade is only the beginning: look at the current stage programme for a night in the Grands Boulevards district.

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Le Grand Rex

Cinema on a grand scale, with an atmospheric auditorium and a programme that also makes room for live events.

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Parc Martin Luther King

Water, planted paths and wide lawns give the Batignolles a contemporary park for a pause between neighbourhood stops.

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Coulée verte René-Dumont

Follow a planted route above and through the eastern city, where former railway infrastructure becomes a walking landscape.

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Parc André Citroën

Big lawns, water and geometric gardens bring a different kind of open space to the western edge of Paris.

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Parc de Bercy

Linked gardens offer a green pause near the Seine, with traces of the district’s wine-trading past.

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Square des Batignolles

A compact English-style garden with winding paths and water, easily paired with a walk through the Batignolles streets.

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Musée d’Orsay

A former railway station with enough painting, sculpture and river light to take over an afternoon on the Left Bank.

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Café de Flore

Take a café table on Boulevard Saint-Germain and watch the Left Bank move around you.

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Les Deux Magots

A Saint-Germain café stop pairs naturally with the church, bookshops and gallery streets nearby.

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Kilomètre25

Open-air house and techno beneath the périphérique, where the edge of Paris becomes the centre of the night.

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La Gare / Le Gore

Live jazz upstairs, electronic music below: a former railway station with two very different ways to lose track of time.

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Les Nautes

A riverside bar offers a pause along the Seine, with the quays as the rest of the route.

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