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LE CONTRESCARPE / Paris
ALEX FREDO - Nouveau spectacle
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LA DIVINE COMEDIE - SALLE 2 / Paris
APRÈS LA PLUIE - LOU-ANNE PROTIN
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THEATRE DU PETIT SAINT-MARTIN / Paris
ARTICLE 353 DU CODE PÉNAL
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THEATRE DES NOUVEAUTES / Paris
BERLIN BERLIN
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BROADWAY COMEDY CLUB / Paris
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THEATRE DE DIX HEURES / Paris
CABARET L'ARNAQUE
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COMEDIE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES / Paris
CHANTE ET TAIS-TOI
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THEATRE DE PARIS - SALLE REJANE / Paris
DÉNI
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THEATRE DES MATHURINS / Paris
DERNIER COUP DE CISEAUX
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MADAME BRASSERIE / Paris
DÎNER POUR 2 PERSONNES - TOUR EIFFEL
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Zénith Paris / La Villette
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Accor Arena / Bercy
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Philharmonie de Paris / La Villette
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New Morning / 10th arrondissement
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Duc des Lombards / 1st arrondissement
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Le Trabendo / La Villette
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Bataclan / 11th arrondissement
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La Cigale / 18th arrondissement
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Le Trianon / 18th arrondissement
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Rex Club / 2nd arrondissement
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Salle Pleyel / 8th arrondissement
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Lumière public film screening
Salon Indien du Grand Café
14 Boulevard des Capucines, 9th arrondissement
The Lumière brothers presented a paid public programme of projected films in the Grand Café basement.
A canonical origin point for cinema as a public, ticketed urban experience.
Auguste Lumière · Louis Lumière
verified · early cinema / screening / Boulevard des CapucinesThe Rite of Spring premiere
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
15 Avenue Montaigne, 8th arrondissement
Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s ballet premiered with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes amid notorious audience disorder.
A defining rupture in modern music, dance and performance culture.
Igor Stravinsky · Vaslav Nijinsky · Sergei Diaghilev
verified · ballet / modernism / premiereLost Generation at Shakespeare and Company
Shakespeare and Company · original shop
12 Rue de l’Odéon, 6th arrondissement
Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library became a meeting place for expatriate writers and published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922.
A Place connecting modernist literature, publishing and the mythology of interwar Paris.
Sylvia Beach · James Joyce · Ernest Hemingway · Gertrude Stein
verified · Lost Generation / Ulysses / bookshopJosephine Baker in La Revue Nègre
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
15 Avenue Montaigne, 8th arrondissement
Josephine Baker made her Paris breakthrough in La Revue Nègre.
The performance launched her French career while embodying the era’s complicated fascination with Black American culture.
Josephine Baker
corroborated · dance / Jazz Age / Black ParisChristian Dior presents the New Look
Maison Christian Dior
30 Avenue Montaigne, 8th arrondissement
Dior presented his first collection, including the Bar suit silhouette soon labelled the New Look.
It reset postwar fashion and reasserted Paris couture internationally.
Christian Dior · Carmel Snow
verified · couture / New Look / Avenue MontaigneBreathless on the Champs-Élysées
Champs-Élysées
Avenue des Champs-Élysées, 8th arrondissement
Jean-Luc Godard filmed Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo on the avenue with a lightweight, mobile production.
The street-level method and finished film became emblems of the French New Wave.
Jean-Luc Godard · Jean Seberg · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Raoul Coutard
corroborated · French New Wave / film shoot / Champs-ÉlyséesOccupation of the Odéon
Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe
Place de l’Odéon, 6th arrondissement
Students and theatre workers occupied the Odéon during the May 1968 revolt.
A major cultural institution became a forum for revolutionary speech and debates about art and authority.
Jean-Louis Barrault
verified · May 1968 / theatre / occupationJim Morrison buried at Père-Lachaise
Père-Lachaise Cemetery
16 Rue du Repos, 20th arrondissement
Morrison was buried in a small ceremony after his death in Paris on 3 July.
His grave became a lasting pilgrimage point linking rock culture to Paris.
Jim Morrison · Pamela Courson
corroborated · The Doors / memorial / pilgrimageAround the World video production
Studios de Bry
2 Avenue de l’Europe, Bry-sur-Marne
Michel Gondry directed the precisely choreographed video for Daft Punk’s Around the World on a studio set outside Paris.
A landmark music video translating the track’s parts into bodies, costume and movement.
Daft Punk · Michel Gondry · Blanca Li
corroborated · music video / choreography / French touchAPES**T filmed at the Louvre
Musée du Louvre
Rue de Rivoli, 1st arrondissement
Beyoncé and Jay-Z filmed the Carters’ APES**T video inside and outside the Louvre.
The video reframed canonical European art through Black bodies, dance, celebrity and museum space.
Beyoncé · Jay-Z · Ricky Saiz
verified · music video / Louvre / art historyDaft Punk bring Alive 2007 to Bercy
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
8 Boulevard de Bercy, 12th arrondissement
Daft Punk performed the pyramid show in their home region during the Alive 2007 tour.
The live production transformed the duo’s catalogue into one continuous audiovisual architecture.
Daft Punk
corroborated · French Touch / Alive 2007 / pyramidMaison Gainsbourg opens to the public
Maison Gainsbourg
5 bis Rue de Verneuil, 7th arrondissement
The preserved home and a museum across the street opened as a public cultural site.
A private creative interior became an interpreted archive while the surrounding street remained part of living Paris.
Serge Gainsbourg · Charlotte Gainsbourg
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