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== Anime & Manga ==
* The assassin girls of ''[[Noir (Animeanime)|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.
* ''[[G Gundam]]'' has George's introductory episode settled in a grim, ruined Paris. At some point, the Eiffel Tower even ''collapses'' during George and Domon's fight. (Worth pointing out, this isn't a specific [[Take That]] against France since the entire planet is in this condition.)
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== Comics ==
* An issue of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|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 (Comic Book)|Lula Undund Yankee]]'' (German comic) make a trip there.
 
 
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** Fake cheese and wine, rows over ownership of recipes and chef's obituaries have all made Real Life headlines.
* ''[[North]]'': The French family wear berets, drinks wine, smokes, and watches Jerry Lewis all day.
* Disney's ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
* One scene in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' has Brendan Fraser chasing a villain leaving the Louvre... and somehow immediately reaching the Eiffel Tower like two seconds later. (In real life, they're [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=The+Louvre+to+Eiffel+Tower&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.136668,77.695313&ie=UTF8&z=13&om=1 about 4 km apart.])
* ''[[Anastasia]]'': The song "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart".
** It also was a major chance for [[Product Placement]], as [[The Nostalgia Chick]] so helpfully points out.
* Disney's ''[[The Aristocats]]'' begins and ends in Paris; the middle part of the film takes place in the French countryside and shows the journey back to the French capital.
* ''[[Ninotchka]]''
* Ilsa and Rick of ''[[Casablanca]]'' "will always have Paris." There a long [["Falling in Love" Montage]] showing them there.
* ''[[Team America: World Police]]''. After opening on a striped-shirt accordion-playing garlic salesman (which turns out to be a [[Show Within a Show|puppet-show]] for tourists), the first scene end with a shoot-out around the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower... and Louvre.
* ''Paris je t'aime'', a 2006 film which consists of eighteen short films set in different districts of Paris.
** Though this could be considered a subversion, since the shorts show much more variety of the city and its different cultural, racial and economic diversity - if often cleaner than in reality
* ''[[Clean]]'' begins in Vancouver and ends in San Francisco, but most of the middle parts are set in Paris.
* ''[[Perfume (Literature)|Perfume]]'' takes place in 18th century Paris and protrays the poorer areas as [[The Dung Ages]], making particular mention of the awful smells.
* ''Is Paris Burning?''
* ''[[Gay Purr-ee]]''
* ''Funny Face'' even has a dedicated song ("Bonjour, Paris!") for this — incredibly corny and stereotyped to the point of silliness, but sweet.
* Paris is home to Inspector Clouseau of ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' films.
* ''[[Taken (Filmfilm)|Taken]]'' - Sure, other parts of France are visited but Paris is mentioned most often.
* Steve in ''[[Singles (Film)|Singles]]'' has a postcard of two lovers kissing in Paris and often wishes life and love could be that simple.
* ''[[Midnight in Paris (Film)|Midnight in Paris]]'' has both contemporary and period versions of the city.
* Seen for about eight minutes at high speed in Claude Lelouch's 1976 short film ''C'était un Rendezvous''.
* Averted in ''[[Frantic]]'' which shows a modern and multicultural Paris. You don't even catch a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower until nearly the end of the movie.
* ''[[Victor Victoria]]'' is set in '30s Paris, and features a song called "Gay Paree" (which heavily lampshades the [[Double Entendre]] of the phrase).
* ''Le Divorce''
* In ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'', Sam's parents go on holiday to Paris. It is shown very briefly, but most of the requisite cliches (Arc du Triomphe, mimes, [[Foreign Queasine|escargots]]) are in place.
 
 
== Literature ==
* More French novels than one cares to list, but feel free to try.
** ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Literaturenovel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' is a pretty famous one.
** ''[[Les Misérables (Literaturenovel)|Les Misérables]]'' plays straight and averts this trope as the first half of the novel is set in a variety of small towns. But the second the setting changes to Paris cue cafes, bohemians, rich snobs, and revolution.
* ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'': The second city is Paris.
* ''A Moveable Feast'': Hemingway's seminal novel established Paris as ''the'' place to be for interwar American artists.
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* ''Eloise in Paris''
* ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]'' spent a chapter touring Paris. The musical spent proportionally more time there.
* A few works by [[Ernest Hemingway]] are set in [[The Roaring Twenties|1920s]] Paris, largely reflecting his experience. While somewhat reflecting the trope (bars and bistros and a generally "gay" lifestyle) he also makes apparent just how shallow the lives of Americans in Paris (many of whom he depicts as Type 2 [[Eagle Land|Eaglelanders]]) can be. Particularly on display in ''[[The Sun Also Rises (Literature)|The Sun Also Rises]]'', wherein he contrasts Paris with Spain (particularly Pamplona and the world of bullfighting).
* A dystopian version of Paris is presented in John Birmingham's ''Without Warning'' as it comes apart during the French Intifada.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|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''.
** That being said, there is a partial subversion of this in Next Generation in that Picard, the only actual French character in all of Star Trek, is from LaBarre, a small rural village that is nowhere near Paris.
* 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|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 Onon 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.
* The two-part finale of ''[[Sex and Thethe 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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* 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.
* ''Madeline''
* ''[[Rugrats]] in Paris'' is set in an especially stereotypical version of the place, yet ''also'' manages to invoke the [[Far East]] stereotypes via musical numbers, a visit to a Japanese restaurant and a dream. Oh yeah, most of the action takes place in a Reptar theme park, so there's not as much Paris involved as the title would let you think. Yes, the Eiffel Tower is there, and so is the Arc de Triomphe, but not the Louvre. And Notre Dame, where {{spoiler|Chas (Chuckie's dad) and Coco [[La Bouche]]'s soon-to-be-ruined wedding took place}}. One line even had Betty about to fall asleep and asking Didi to "wake her up if she sees the [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Literaturenovel)|hunchback]]". Betty and Didi even hang a lampshade on the general lack of French-ness in their trip, at least culinary-wise:
{{quote| ''eating at a Japanese restaurant at the theme park''<br />
'''Didi''': When I came to France, I had dreams of bouillabaise, crepes Suzette, chicken cordon bleu...<br />
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* Played straight on a episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''
* Justifed by the ''[[Jem]]'' episode, "Kimber's Rebellion", as the French countess gives them the idea to film a video there.
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'': Paris is the only place outside the USA which appears twice in CDRR.
** The episode "Le Purrfect Crime" takes place in Paris. Several animals (!) are dressed in stereotypical French garb, the showdown takes place on the Eiffel Tower....
** "Love Is a Many Splintered Thing" includes a [[Flash Back]] with Monty and a certain [[Femme Fatale]] mouse in Paris.
* Parodied in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' where all the French monuments have become Chokie Chicken's.
* The original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' visited Paris. Where the Eiffel tower was on a ''massive'' field of grass. Very likely.
** Though it might have been they were trying to render the [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Champs+de+Mars&hl=en&cd=1&ei=R4wbTNGTCMOh_Ab0nYhD&sig2=CWUq81suTRKeAhw43iODVw&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=167228844627774358&iwloc=A&ved=0CB0QpQY&sa=X Champ de Mars] but [[They Just Didn't Care]] to go into all the details of every and each alley.
* The French doll Babette from [[Raggedy Ann and Andy A Musical Adventure]] all she ever wanted is to go back to her precious town of "Gay Paree".
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== Literature ==
* ''[[The Bourne Series (Literaturenovel)|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 Onon 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]]."
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' Paris is under martial law [[Crapsack World|like much of the world]], so its depiction is influenced by [[Worldwar (Literature)|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.
 
 
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