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A place to [[Have a Gay Old Time]].

 

* 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''!

* ''[[Cyborg 009]]'' has a French Ballerina as the local Chick and [[Team Mom]], so the episode depicting her backstory is set in Paris. She remarks on how it hasn't changed ''that'' much from the days she used to live there.

 

 

* An issue of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' featuring a battle with the Bunny From Beyond shows him converting the storyline's monstrous egg yolks back to normal in cities all over the world, including Earth-C's version of Paris, "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Parrots]]" (though the final issue in the run would call it "Purris"), with a shot of its "Eyeful Tower." A later story would revisit Earth-C's France, but avoided Parrots entirely (in favor of depicting other regions of the country).

* ''[[Lula und Yankee]]'' (German comic) make a trip there.

 

 

* ''[[Amelie|Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain]]'' is set in Montmartre (the big white church is the ''Sacré Coeur'', a local landmark), an especially beautiful part of this beautiful city. It used to be known as the artists' quarter. The film was criticized by some for portraying Paris as unrealistically clean and [[Unfortunate Implications|white-washed]].

** To the amusement and/or exasperation of the locals, the ''Amélie'' crew cleaned up their shooting locations so thoroughly that they started to clash with the rest of Montmartre, which is picturesque but also vibrantly grubby.

 

 

* More French novels than one cares to list, but feel free to try.

** ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' is a pretty famous one.

 

 

* ''[[Star Trek]]'', beginning with the time of ''The Next Generation'', made reference to the President of the Federation keeping offices in Paris. The Presidential Office has a view of the Eiffel Tower. Also in view of the Eiffel Tower is a café where Captain Picard once broke off a date with a woman who later marries a man who would go on to develop that episode's [[Applied Phlebotinum]].

** And everyone from Paris/France is ''English''.

 

 

* The 10cc song suite "Une Nuit a Paris" plays up all mock-sophisticated aspects of the trope [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]], although it involves the murder of a ''gendarme''.

 

 

* Several Cole Porter musicals, including ''50 Million Frenchmen'', ''Can-Can'' and ''Silk Stockings''. (This last was just a [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of ''[[Ninotchka]]''.)

* ''The Merry Widow''

 

 

* ''[[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.

 

 

* in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Galatea's first reappearance after her debut arc shows her to be living it up in Paris, apparently supporting herself through burglary. She wears a beret and scarf while eating at an outdoor bistro in sight of the Eiffel Tower. When in human disguise, she has a (holographic) cigarette in her mouth.

 

 

* Nearly all of the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons featuring Pepe Le Pew center on this portrayal of Paris.

* The [[Talking Animal]] film ''[[Gay Purr-ee]]'' is set in turn-of-the-century France, with the bulk of the story taking place in Paris. It does however acknowledge that other parts of France exist by beginning the story in Provence.

 

 

* The French film ''[[La Haine]]'' rarely ventures inside central Paris, the area surrounded by the Périphérique; instead, most of the action takes place in the surrounding ''banlieue'', more precisely, in the Yvelines, west of Paris.

* ''[[Mr Beans Holiday]]'' has the bumbling titular character arriving in Paris at the start of his vacation, but spends much of the film in the countryside and ultimately arrives in Cannes.

 

 

* ''[[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]]''

 

 

* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' Paris is under martial law [[Crapsack World|like much of the world]], so its depiction is influenced by [[Worldwar|wartime Paris of the past century]]. The Eifel tower and other famous landmarks are [[City Noir|displayed rather gloomily]]. [[Smoking Is Cool|Everyone smokes]] and engages in deep discussions of culture, [[La Résistance|politics]] and [[The Philosopher|the human condition]], even in bars and discotheques.

 

 

* ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown'', and the subsequent TV special ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'' avoided Paris entirely on a trip to France. Granted, their vision of northern France was pretty generic, except for the accents, and the war memorial they visited in the TV special.

* Averted hard with the suburban Boulogne-Billancourt setting of ''[[Code Lyoko]]''.