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[[File:~~uploading_this_thingy_6811~~.jpg|frame|A neverending party, with occasional war.]]

[[File:uploading this thingy 6811.jpg|frame|A neverending party, with occasional war.]]

{{quote|''If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.''|'''[[Ernest Hemingway]]''', ''A Moveable Feast''}}

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== As Described ==

=== Anime & Manga ===

* The assassin girls of ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]'' live here, probably in Trocadéro considering the Eiffel Tower is visible from the window. Strangely, this version has newscasts with the on-screen text in ''English''!

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* Daphne in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' lives in Paris. And yes, it has the Eiffel Tower clearly visible through a window.

* The Ricardos and Mertzes visited Paris during their trip to Europe on ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. The [[Establishing Shot]] was of the Arc, Lucy encountered both a street artist and escargot in her first day there, and her hotel room had a head-on view of the Eiffel Tower.

* "The Monkees In Paris" is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: A 1968 episode of ''[[The Monkees]]'' featuring the guys romping around [[Gay Paree]], while being chased by a [[Groupie Brigade]] of faux [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] in the form of chic French models (it's true: they actually had no idea who the Monkees were. At the time, the TV show hadn't yet aired in France).

* "The Monkees In Paris" is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: A 1968 episode of ''[[The Monkees]]'' featuring the guys romping around Gay Paree, while being chased by a [[Groupie Brigade]] of faux [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] in the form of chic French models (it's true: they actually had no idea who the Monkees were. At the time, the TV show hadn't yet aired in France).

* On the first season of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', teams had to travel to Paris and climb to the top of (you guessed it!) the Eiffel Tower, and use a telescope to find a flag on top of another landmark, which turned out to be (you guessed it!) the Arc de Triomphe.

* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' features a stereotypical French party in one episode.

* Partly subverted in the ''[[Monk]]'' tie-in novel "Mr. Monk is Miserable", where Natalie expects to eat croissants and whatnot while enjoying the rustic splendor of the city. As soon as she sees the lights on the Eiffel Tower, and the [[Ferris Wheel of Doom|Roue de Paris]], and the Arc de Triomphe merely because L'Arche de le Defense is visible from the top of it, she launches into a long character filibuster (with which [[Author Filibuster|the author]] [[Poe's Law|may or may not have agreed]]) about how commercialism and "doing things bigger" has ruined her beautiful city [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|from being the way it was twenty years ago on her honeymoon]]. [[Double Subverted|Then]] she finds an enormous parisian flat with a personal cafe and a waterfall being run by a sewer <s> mutant</s> vagrant ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and repeatedly waxes poetically throughout the book about how Paris even has better garbage than San Francisco <ref> despite only ever seeing garbage from the 7th arrondissiment</ref>. [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Triple-subverted]] ([[Drama|or was it?]]) with a [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] by yhe [[Cloudcuckoolander]] when the police are completely blase about a criminal plummeting to his death directly in front of them.

* Partly subverted in the ''[[Monk]]'' tie-in novel "Mr. Monk is Miserable", where Natalie expects to eat croissants and whatnot while enjoying the rustic splendor of the city. As soon as she sees the lights on the Eiffel Tower, and the [[Ferris Wheel of Doom|Roue de Paris]], and the Arc de Triomphe merely because L'Arche de le Defense is visible from the top of it, she launches into a long character filibuster (with which [[Author Filibuster|the author]] [[Poe's Law|may or may not have agreed]]) about how commercialism and "doing things bigger" has ruined her beautiful city [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|from being the way it was twenty years ago on her honeymoon]]. [[Double Subverted|Then]] she finds an enormous parisian flat with a personal cafe and a waterfall being run by a sewer <s> mutant</s> vagrant ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and repeatedly waxes poetically throughout the book about how Paris even has better garbage than San Francisco.<ref>despite only ever seeing garbage from the 7th arrondissiment</ref> [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Triple-subverted]] ([[Drama|or was it?]]) with a [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] by yhe [[Cloudcuckoolander]] when the police are completely blase about a criminal plummeting to his death directly in front of them.

* The two-part finale of ''[[Sex and the City]]'' has Carrie moving to Paris with her Russian boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky...and being completely miserable there {{spoiler|until Big finally arrives to pop the question}}.

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=== Video Games ===

* ''[[Sakura Taisen]] 3'' is set in Paris, and features every one of the above tropes, plus (for good measure) a suspiciously [[Moulin Rouge]]-ish cabaret. Oh, and there's a huge {{spoiler|revolver cannon hidden under the Arc de Triomphe}}....

* ''[[Rayman]] Raving Rabbids'' and its sequel seem to have a lot of sections set in ~~Paris--fitting~~ since the developers are French.

* ''[[Rayman]] Raving Rabbids'' and its sequel seem to have a lot of sections set in Paris—fitting since the developers are French.

* Decidedly less comical example than most: Paris is the capital of the European Federation in ''Tom Clancy's [[End War]]'' and thus is a major battlefield, featuring the Eiffel Tower at the Europeans' critical uplink. May be the first time in gaming that ''Americans'' get to destroy the Tower... though the Russians can do it if they get there first.

* Speaking of Russia wrecking the Eiffel Tower (somewhat), the Soviets do convert it into a gigantic Tesla Coil in one mission of their campaign in ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Red Alert 2''. Although you could destroy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe and Louvre. Incidentally, in ''Red Alert 1'', failing a certain mission as the Allies results in a cutscene of [[Monumental Damage|a nuclear bomb going off near the Eiffel Tower]].

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* ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Series]]'' has Paris as a rather grim place, where Carlos the Jackal and his "old men of Paris" hang out. No one does any sight-seeing and in the first book, Jason/David and Marie spend a considerable amount of time running for their lives, with Marie also suffering from an attempted rape. Not a happy holiday.

* ''[[Les Misérables]]''

* [[George Orwell]]'s first novel, ''Down and Out in Paris and London'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: the fist half is all about him living a hand-to-mouth existence in Paris, eventually becoming a ''plongeur'' (dishwasher) in two different posh restaurants, where he can see the world of overworked, underpaid workers necessary to maintain "[[Gay Paree]]."

* [[George Orwell]]'s first novel, ''Down and Out in Paris and London'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: the fist half is all about him living a hand-to-mouth existence in Paris, eventually becoming a ''plongeur'' (dishwasher) in two different posh restaurants, where he can see the world of overworked, underpaid workers necessary to maintain "Gay Paree."