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19 Best Songs About Paris That Will Make You Feel Closer To The City of Love

Want to listen to some cool songs about Paris? From jazz, pop, folk, to electronic, this post will give you all the famous Parisian songs that you’ll enjoy!

We’ve seen a number of things about the city of love from Quotes about Paris written by writers, and famous figures that had poetic words to describe the city, captions on Paris to make any photo stand out on Instagram to funny Paris puns that made me fall in Louvre, (see what I did there, those are the kind of puns I am talking about.)

But did you know that there are a number of songs about Paris that describe the French capital in the most beautiful way possible? Well, if you didn’t, I’ve got you covered!

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I can honestly call myself a Francophile who has a special love for Paris and anything about Paris excites me beyond reason! From its famous landmarks , architecture, cute streets to art and this includes songs!

Yes, I’ve become a little obsessed with some of these songs so I decided to share them with you too since I believe you love the city as much as I do; I mean that’s why you’re here!

Whether you’re planning a trip to Paris , want to feel closer to your favorite place, or just want to cure the Paris travel bug, these Parisian songs will transport you directly to the city of love .

Ella Fitzgerald, black and white potrait - another famous singer on the list

Of course, I admit that we may all have different tastes in music but since we have the same love for Paris, I believe you’ll love these Paris songs. All the lyrics may not be about Paris but I will try to bring out the part that relates them to Paris.

To make sure you easily find these Paris songs or Paris chansons as the French call them, I’ve included a link to Youtube on each song where you can watch and listen to them for free.

Famous Songs About Paris

There are innumerable songs about Paris but these are my favorite in no particular order.

They include a mix of Electronic, Pop, Jazz, Folk, and many others. These Paris songs are guaranteed to spark the love, passion, and hope inside you every time you think or listen to them. Pick up your speaker now and let’s jam together.

1. J’ai Deux Amours by Josephine Baker

Released: 1930 | Genre: Dance/Electronic

While the title of this song may leave you wondering if Josephine Baker is torn between two lovers, she’s actually singing about how she is torn between two cities.

On one hand, is the city she resides in and calls home, Manhattan. On the other hand, is Paris, a city she has not been to yet but dreams of visiting. She describes Paris and talks about how it has left her spellbound.

This song embodies the effect Paris has on everyone, and how it leaves one and all mesmerized by everything about it.

It also alludes to the dream most people have of visiting the City of Lights that they have only heard so many things about, at least once in their life.

2. La Vie En Rose by Édith Piaf

Released: 1946 | Genre: Pop

Édith Piaf was a French cabaret singer and was widely regarded as France’s national chanteuse.

This song is probably the most famous among Paris chansons (songs). While, in this song, Édith does not actually talk of Paris, it embodies love hence its association with the City of Love.

It is a slow, romantic, and hopeful rendition in which Édith talks about how we experience love initially through rose-colored glasses, and that’s how we should see the world as well.

She encourages everyone to see the beauty, the positive and exciting side of life, comparing it to the first few moments when you fall in love.

3. I Love Paris by Cole Porter/Ella Fitzgerald

Released: 1953 | Genre: Jazz

I Love Paris is one of the popular songs about Paris. It was first sung by Cole Porter in 1953 followed by other famous personalities like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, among others.

The song describes exactly that, why the singer loves Paris. He talks about how he loves everything about the city, across all seasons – like timeless love.

Whether it be a fair season or an unanticipated season, he loves Paris regardless.

4. Bonjour, Paris! By Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson

Released: 1957 | Genre: Jazz

Bonjour, Paris! is a song from the 1957 rom-com musical movie, Funny Face . This song showcases all the popular spots in Paris like Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Petit Palais, Montmartre and even the street, Rue de la Paix which is Paris’ famous shopping street.

Audrey is shown to be someone who has been longing to come to the city to see its sights, among other things.

Her dream eventually comes true when a guy from the cast influences his boss to shoot in Paris.

The picturization of this musical movie scene shows the cast going around the city admiring these places.

5. April in Paris by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

The first rendition/performance of April in Paris was by Freddy Martin in 1933 for the Broadway musical, Walk a Little Faster .

It became such a hit that it was covered by Sauter-Finegan Orchestra in 1952, making it even more successful.

From thereon, multiple jazz singers have covered it including Count Basie in 1955, whose performance was then inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and Ella and Louis two years after that.

The song talks about springtime in Paris and the feelings and visuals associated with it. It is a hopeful song that will transport you to a picturesque scenario.

6. Non, Je ne regrette rien by Édith Piaf

Released: 1960 | Genre: Jazz

This is probably the 2nd most famous song by Édith Piaf, and on this list of the best songs about Paris, after La Vie En Rose .

Like the earlier song by her, the subject of this one too isn’t Paris but, since France’s national idol is singing it, one can connect it to the city and its people.

The song’s title translates to “No, I regret nothing.” It talks about how one should be hopeful, despite the adversities faced.

In good times and bad, you have to have a positive outlook and not regret anything you did or any path that you chose.

7. Les Champs-Elysée by Joe Dassin

Released: 1969 | Genre: Jazz

As the song begins, few truly recognize it but, once it reaches the chorus, everyone sings along.

This song personifies the broadest and most beautiful avenue in Paris, Les Champs-Elysées.

The boulevard is lined with numerous restaurants, cafes, and shops attracting large crowds, thus making it the busiest street in Paris.

The singer celebrates this avenue and talks about the various kinds of people who make their way here.

Today, every year, on Bastille Day (July 14th), France’s national day, the largest military parade goes through this avenue.

Another reason why it’s famous besides housing popular fashion brands is that it’s the final stretch of France’s famous cycling race, the Tour de France.

8. Where Do You Go to (My Lovely) By Peter Sarstedt

Released: 1969 | Genre: Folk

This song has Peter Sarstedt singing to his childhood friend, Marie Claire, who grew up in poverty in Naples.

She now lives in Paris while wining and dining with the rich and famous. He asks her thoughts and feelings when she’s alone, not living a luxurious life.

Thus alluding to the fact that she might not have been as happy and content as she portrayed to the outside world.

Peter, although not French, sings about many French references like Boulevard St. Michel and Sorbonne, and personalities like Picasso, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Sacha Distel.

9. Paris by Faith Hill

Released: 2005 | Genre: Country

When you listen to Paris (which is off the album fireflies), it might seem like a love song, but in actuality, that is far from the truth.

When it was first played for her by the songwriters, Faith Hill also thought it was a love song. They let her believe that for a while.

However, the story goes that the 3 songwriters took a train to Paris from London on Bastille Day.

The anticipated celebratory day (joie de vivre) turned out to be a gruesome one when a fight broke out while the trio was waiting for a cab.

Verges, one of the 3, got knocked out cold with a broken nose and a bloody face.

When he came around, he was in an ambulance being taken to the hospital while his friends didn’t know where he was transported to and had no way of contacting him. Eventually, they returned to London and wrote this song.

10. Crazy Paris by Horny United

Released: 2008 | Genre: Electronic

Like most electronic numbers, Crazy Paris is not big on lyrics and falls short in that department.

There’s no history or story behind this 2008 number. In fact, the singer also has a pretty low social profile. I guess he lets his music do the talking.

The song has a cool head-bobbing tune with alternating segments of catchy beats and lyrics.

The only linkage to Paris is in the name and the recurring occurrence of the word in the minimal lyrics.

11. Paris (Ooh La La) By Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Released: 2010 | Genre: Rock

This rock n’ roll number is a sexy, sassy one in which Grace practically says that she wants to get down and dirty in a lyrical manner.

The chorus is repetitive, but the guitar strums more than make up for it. The song will make you want to crank up the volume and get pumped up like a rock star.

Such is the beat and rhythm of this song that it was covered by numerous people across different talent shows like The Voice and The X Factor.

Pamela Anderson even danced to this number in Dancing with the Stars.

12. La Seine by Vanessa Paradi & M

Released: 2011 | Genre: Pop

La Seine is a chanson taken from an animated movie, Un Monstre à Paris (A Monster in Paris).

In the film, the main character, Lucille, a cabaret singer, performs on stage in a song and dance manner to the tunes of a guitar and an accompanying band.

The guitar-playing character, who eventually sings with Lucille, is the monster referenced in the movie’s title.

While the movie is set in 1910, when the main river that runs through Paris, La Seine, had flooded the streets of Paris and its surrounding towns, the song is an ode to the river itself.

13. Paris by Lana Del Ray

Released: 2012 (leaked) | Genre: Alternative Pop

This 2012 song by Lana Del Ray was actually recorded a year earlier but didn’t make it to her chart-topping 2 nd album, Born to Die. It leaked as a solo but didn’t gain as much fame as the album.

The song talks about how the monotony of life has gotten to her and her significant other.

She feels the answer is for him to take her to Paris, so that’s what she asks him to do.

She then narrates how crazy and wild their life could be there. She also references famous Parisian monuments like Sacré-Cœur and Tour Eiffel, also mentioning Yves Saint Laurent.

14. Paris by Little Dragon

Released: 2012 | Genre: Alternative Indie; Dance/Electronic

Paris by Little Dragon is a sad pop song about moving on and celebrating the departed instead of letting their loss absorb you.

The band’s lead singer, Yukimi Nagano, sings about a long-distance friendship and how it was tragically cut short by the death of her friend.

It is about going through the loss of someone close and how she decides to go to Paris, where their rendezvous was supposed to happen.

She feels somewhat weird experiencing things without the person, but ultimately, she knows she has to move on, so that’s what she strives to do.

It is probably the saddest song about Paris, at least on this list, though it doesn’t sound like that if you just listen to the music without knowing the lyrics.

15. Little French Song by Carla Bruni

Released: 2013 | Genre: Pop

This song has been sung by singer turned model, Carla Bruni, who then became the French First Lady (now former).

She sings about how when everything is going wrong, singing a little French song will make things better. This is an upbeat number, so it might genuinely work in uplifting your mood.

Through the song, she takes you around Paris – Pigalle, Saint Louis Island, Tuileries, and Bastille.

She also talks about French poets, writers, and singers, even referencing Édith Piaf. She says they may not be like Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, or Louis Armstrong, but they are famous worldwide nonetheless.

16. Paris by Night by Bénabar

Released: 2014 | Genre: Pop

As the song title suggests, Bruno Nicolini, or Bénabar as he is known, talks about Paris at night .

His French chansons often have him singing about daily life events; some funny, some cynical.

In this foot-tapping song, he describes how Paris is bustling at night. People are going out for dinner to bistros and restaurants, heading for an after-work drink to bars, and making their way to clubs to dance the night away.

His friends invite him to do the same with them. And even though he is initially hesitant, he ends up going anyway and having a lovely time.

17. Paname by Slimane

Released: 2016 | Genre: Pop

The name, Paname, is a Paris nickname given to Paris and its suburbs. In this song , Slimane sings about how he wants to go to Paris with his backpack, songs, and dreams.

He dreams of taking his mother to Paris so that she can hear him sing there.

He talks about how he thinks the Parisian people are and how their way of life is. He then goes on to relate himself in those same situations. He visualizes them (him & his mother) there and how they would go on about their day.

Paname is a song about hope, and how everyone has dreams to make it big in a city they dream of tasting success in.

18. Paris by Sabrina Carpenter

Released: 2018 | Genre: Pop

In Paris , Sabrina sings about her love for the City of Love, how it is incomparable and romantic. Could we disagree? In reality, too, Sabrina has been a fan of the city and had dreamed of visiting it for years. (I mean, can you blame her?)

Those feelings of admiration and longing have reflected in the song. But in fact, she wrote this song after her trip to Paris for her show, and successively, her 18 th birthday that she spent there.

She talks about leaving town and going to Paris to find love but eventually realizes that she already has it. To add a little Parisian charm to it, she even sings the bridge in French.

19. Bienvenue Chez Moi by Bigflo & Oli

Released: 2018 | Genre: Dance Electronic

Through Bienvenue Chez Moi , Bigflo and Oli take you not just through Paris but through the entire country of France.

They talk about the beautiful cities of Bordeaux, Normandy, Marseille, and Strasbourg, among others. It’s like taking a tour de France.

Be it the French valleys, beaches , towns, or cities , you can visualize it all and picture yourself living out the lyrics.

If you ask me, this is probably one of the best songs about Paris if you want to know about France, its wonderful places, and what each of them is famous for.

Final Thoughts on the Best Parisian Songs

Just like poets and writers, many singers expressed their love and admiration for Paris through what they do best; singing!

So if you were looking for that one song to listen to and envision your life in the city of lights, I hope that some of these lyrics about Paris have transported you to the city of love and put a smile on your face while imagining it.

Do you have any favorites? Let me know in the comments below which of these Parisian songs transported you or any that gave you that special connection.

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36 Songs About Paris That Will Bring You There Instantly

Are you looking for the best songs about Paris out there? Then you’ve come to the right place! Paris, also known as the city of love , is a city that has inspired many artists, so it comes as no surprise that numerous songs have been written about it.

In this list, I’ve collected some of the best and most famous songs about the French capital.

Whether you’re about to go on a trip to Paris, you’re feeling nostalgic about your last trip or you’re simply dreaming about visiting the city of love, these songs will bring you in the right mood. Some of them will even make you feel as if you were sitting in a little Parisian café instantly.

So without further ado, from Edith Piaf to Jay Z and Kanye West , here are some of the best and most famous Parisian songs.

>> Read: The Best Quotes About Paris to Inspire Your Next Trip

Best Parisian songs

Songs about Paris in English

Let’s start with some of the best songs about Paris in English. These include many oldies, some rock songs about Paris and more!

1. Eartha Kitt – Under the Bridges of Paris (1955)

Although I placed this song in the section containing English songs about Paris, it’s a bit of an exception. Under the Bridges of Paris contains both English and French lyrics.

Nevertheless, Eartha Kitt was an American jazz singer so I think her song fits this section better than the French one.

How would you like to be Down by the Seine with me Oh what I’d give for a moment or two Under the bridges of Paris with you

2. Little Dragon – Paris (2014)

The music in this beautiful song might sound upbeat but the lyrics are actually pretty sad. It speaks about losing someone you love and then moving away to Paris in an attempt to cope with the loss.

Spirit divide Drift alone I waved her goodbye I carried on Dreams pass My black dress Folded on a big mess I’m changing my next flight to Paris

3. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – April in Paris (1957)

This duet talks about Paris in the springtime and how beautiful it is during this time of the year. It’s one of the most famous songs about Paris by two talented American musicians.

Till April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this is a feeling That no one can ever reprise

4. The Stranglers – Let’s Tango in Paris (1972)

Let’s Tango in Paris is a song from the 1970s that speaks exactly about what its title predicts: having a good time and tangoing in Paris.

You might find yourself with me Share your glass of vanity We’re away Every day Not so far for me to say I could take you there today Let’s tango in Paris.

5. Faith Hill – Paris (2005)

Faith Hill is one of the most successful American country singers. Her song Paris talks about how she would do everything for someone, but she can’t give them Paris.

Is I’d give this world to you Every rock and every stone every masterpiece in rome And if you asked me to I’d steel the mona lisa, tear it up in little pieces And lay them at your feet For all the world to see But tonight I can’t give you Paris

6. Carla Bruni – Little French Song (2013)

I have to admit that this is not my favourite song on this list, but it’s true that this little French song is uplifting.

Carla Bruni is the former first lady of France, she’s married to Nicolas Sarkozy, who was the president of France from 2007 to 2012.

Et quand on ne sait plus where to belong Try for a little french song French songs will take you to Paris, to Pigalle ou L’Île Saint-Louis French song are dancing sous la pluie, de Bastille aux Tuileries

7. Jonathan Richman – Give Paris One More Chance (1983)

If you’re looking for rock songs about Paris, then this might be the song for you! In this song, Jonathan Rinchman acknowledges that Paris is not all sunshine and rainbows, but he still wants to give the city one more chance.

Well now I’m calling it arrogant, calling it cruel (Give Paris one more chance) And also trop civilisé et mon dieu, c’est trop cool (Give Paris one more chance) But if you don’t think Paris was made for love Maybe your heart needs a telegram from up above If you don’t think Paris was made for love Well give Paris one more chance

8. Ella Fitzgerald – I love Paris (1953)

Back in the day, Ella Fitzgerald was one of the most popular jazz singers in the United States. Her song I Love Paris was first introduced in the musical Can-Can , which tells the story of showgirls in Montmartre at the end of the 19th century.

If you like Frank Sinatra, you’ll be happy to hear that there’s also a version of this song sung by him.

I love Paris in the springtime I love Paris in the fall I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles

9. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris (2011)

This song was inspired by Kanye West’s travels in Paris. It won two Grammy Awards when it was released in 2011; one for the best rap song and one for the best rap performance.

What’s Gucci, my nigga? What’s Louis, my killer? What’s drugs, my dealer? What’s that jacket, Margiela? Doctors say I’m the illest ‘Cause I’m suffering from realness Got my niggas in Paris and they going gorillas, huh

10. Fred Astaire – Paris Loves Lovers (1955)

The title of this song says it all. Paris is often dubbed the city of love and that’s exactly what this song is about.

Paris loves lovers, for lovers it’s heaven above Paris tells lovers, love is supreme, wake up your dream and make love Only in Paris one discovers the urge to merge with the splurge of the spring Paris loves lovers for lovers know that love is everything

11. Elliott Smith – Place Pigalle

I hadn’t heard about Elliott Smith before writing this post, but I’ve been listening to this song on repeat ever since discovering it, and I can’t wait to listen to more of his music.

Place Pigalle is a neighbourhood in Paris, and this song speaks about falling in love while staying there on a holiday.

From the bar they walk to Place Pigalle The taxi waved down Goodnight, sleep well Now it’s just a step to the door And he wants all the more to bring her away Out of this temporary half holiday

12. Doris Day – The River Seine (1950)

Doris Day was a famous American actress and singer, you may know her from the song Que Sere Sera , which she sang in the 1956 movie The Man Who Knew Too Much . This song, however, is about Paris’ famous river, the Seine.

The Seine, when she starts on her travels, Lazily flows from her source. Slowly, her length she unravels, Twisting and turning her course.

13. Lana Del Rey – Take Me to Paris (2012)

Take Me to Paris was written for Lana Del Rey’s album Born to Die , which came out in 2011, but it was scrapped before the album was released. One year later, however, the song leaked. That might be a good thing, though, because this song will make you dream about Paris, just like the singer is doing.

Take me to Paris Let’s go there and never look back Paris (ooh), we can be crazy like that You’re such a naughty boy Why you taking that Polaroid? Put on a show you’ll enjoy Take me to Paris (Ooh, la-la, ooh, la-la) (x2)

14. St. Vincent – Paris is Burning (2007)

Paris is Burning is a song on St. Vincent’s debut album Marry Me . It’s a beautiful, somewhat dark piece describing a revolt in the French capital.

We are waiting on a telegram To give us news of the fall I am sorry to report Dear Paris is burning after all

15. Florent Pagny – Chatelet Les Halles

This song by Florent Pagny, one of France’s most famous singers, was named after one of the largest underground train stations in the world; Chatelet Les Halles in Paris.

Entre gris et graffitis où s’enferme le quotidien Et des murs tellement petits qu’on entend tout des voisins Avec pour seul vis-à-vis des montagnes de parpaings Où déambule l’ennui et se traînent des destins Le samedi après-midi, prendre des souterrains Aller voir où ça vit de l’autre côté, ligne un

16. Grace Potter And The Nocturnals – Paris (Ooh La La) (2010)

To be honest, this one is not my favourite but a lot of people do like it. Therefore, this upbeat song cannot miss on a list of songs about Paris.

If I was a man I’d make my move If I was a blade I’d shave you smooth If I was a judge I’d break the law And if I was from Paris If I was from Paris I would say Oh la la la la la la la (x4)

17. Sabrina Carpenter – Paris (2018)

Paris by Sabrina Carpenter is a relatively new song about Paris. The singer wrote it with Brett McLaughlin and Jason Evigan after her first trip to Paris, which was for her 18th birthday.

It’s so romantic in Paris Won’t even try to compare it Thought I was sure that I’d find it But I already have love in LA

18. Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, And Kay Thompson – Bonjour, Paris! (1957)

This is a song from the classic Audrey Hepburn movie Funny Face . It’s about a bookworm that becomes a model and travels to Paris with a famous photographer and a magazine editor.

I’m strictly (a) tourist But I couldn’t care less. When they parlez-vous me Then I gotta confess. That’s for me: Bonjour, Paris!

French songs about Paris

Are you looking for the best Parisian songs in the French language?

Music is one of the things France is famous for , and whether you understand the language or not, some of the following songs will make you feel as if you were in this city right now!

19. Edith Piaf – Sous le Ciel de Paris (1951)

Sous le Ciel de Paris may actually be the most famous song about Paris, and it’s also one of my favourites on this list. Over the years, it has been covered by many artists including Jacqueline François, Mireille Mathieu and Zaz.

There are also some English versions of this song with the title Under Paris Skies .

Sous le ciel de Paris Marchent des amoureux Hum, hum Leur bonheur se construit Sur un air fait pour eux

20. Maurice Chevalier – Paris je t’aime d’amour (1930)

This love song about Paris was originally performed by Maurice Chevalier in 1930 but it was covered by French singer Patrick Bruel more recently.

Paris je t’aime, je t’aime, je t’aime Avec ivresse, Comme une maîtresse ! Tu m’oublieras bien vite et pourtant Mon cœur est tout chaviré en te quittant !

21. Booba – Paname (2011)

Is rap more of your kind of music? Then this song might be the one for you! Booba is a popular French rapper who grew up in the suburbs of Paris.

Rappeurs, producteurs et quelques journalistes J’suis là pour le khalis demande à Kaaris Rien n’égale notre charisme négro ici c’est Paris à risque C’est la guerre chez nous c’est pas Peace, Bagdad c’est la isme Le rap français, ma target-practice Neuf-deux tout est vrai, rien n’est factice

22. Charles Trenet – Les Oiseaux De Paris (1939)

Les Oiseaux De Paris talks about someone who left Paris to go live in America, Africa and other places around the world. He misses his home town though and talks to a bird from Paris who built a nest at his hotel.

Les oiseaux de Paris Me réveillent la nuit Par leurs chants et leurs cris Ils font bien plus de bruit Qu’les autos

23. Léo Marjane – Sur les Pavés de Paris

If you like Edith Piaf’s music, you may like Léo Marjane too. Together with Piaf, Marjane was one of France’s most famous female singers in the 1940s.

Refrain d’amour fleuri Sur les pavés de Paris Chanson des jours dorés Que l’on a tous murmuré Dans tous les cœurs épris C’est le bonheur qui sourit Tout le long des faubourgs Et malgré le ciel gris

24. Charles Aznavour – La Bohême (1965)

This beautiful piece tells the story of bohemian artists living in the Parisian Montmartre quarter. It’s a nostalgic song by Charles Aznavour, one of France’s most famous singers.

Je vous parle d’un temps Que les moins de vingt ans Ne peuvent pas connaître Montmartre en ce temps-là Accrochait ses lilas Jusque sous nos fenêtres

25. Louise Attaque – Les Nuits Parisiennes (1997)

Louise Attaque is one of my favourite French bands! In their song Les Nuits Parisiennes, they talk about Parisian nights and how they’d like to see what nights are like in other places too.

J’vis toujours des soirées parisiennes Et j’voudrais vivre des soirées belles à Sienne Et vivre au vent, à feu, à sang M’ouvrir aux sentiments

26. Jacques Brel – Les Prénoms de Paris (1962)

Belgian singer Jacques Brel didn’t only sing about Brussels and Amsterdam but he also sang about Paris. His song Les Prénoms de Paris has been described as “a kind of romantic tourist guide about Paris”.

Le soleil qui se lève et caresse les toits Et c’est Paris le jour La Seine qui se promène et me guide du doigt Et c’est Paris toujours Et mon cœur qui s’arrête sur ton cœur qui sourit C’est Paris bonjour Ta main dans ma main qui me dit déjà oui C’est Paris l’amour

27. Joe Dassin – Champs Elysées (1969)

This cheerful song is one of the most famous and iconic French songs out there. It’s about a man who’s taking a stroll along the famous Champs-Elysées in Paris.

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

28. Yves Montand – A Paris (1948)

A Paris is a famous song that was composed by Francis Lemarque, who was born in Paris. Lemarque composed many songs for Yves Montand after the two met in 1946.

À Paris Quand un amour fleurit Ça fait pendant des semaines Deux coeurs qui se sourient Tout ça parce qu’ils s’aiment À Paris

29. Josephine Baker – J’ai Deux Amours (1930)

In this song, Josephine Baker celebrates her two loves (which is the title of the song) as an American expat in Paris. It’s known that Baker distanced herself from the U.S.A., where she was born, after moving to the French capital.

J’ai deux amours Mon pays et Paris Par eux toujours Mon cœur est ravi Manhattan est belle Mais à quoi bon le nier C’qui m’ensorcelle, c’est Paris C’est Paris tout entier

30. Vanessa Paradis & Matthieu Chedid – La Seine (2011)

This song from Vanessa Paradis is from the French animated movie Un Monstre à Paris . There’s also an English version of the song that was recorded for the English version of the movie ( A Monster in Paris )

Je ne sais, ne sais, ne sais pas pourquoi On s’aime comme ça, la Seine et moi Je ne sais, ne sais, ne sais pas pourquoi On s’aime comme ça, la Seine et moi

31. Maurice Chevalier – Ca c’est Paris

Maurice Chevalier (you can find another of his songs on #20 of this list) was born in Paris and often sang about the city. Back in the day, he was a famous French actor and singer.

Paris… reine du monde Paris… c’est une blonde Le nez retroussé, l’air moqueur Les yeux toujours rieurs Tous ceux qui te connaissent Grisés par tes caresses S’en vont mais revienn’nt toujours Paris… à tes amours !

32. Claude Nougaro – Paris Mai (1968)

Claude Nougaro wrote his song Paris Mai after the civil unrest taking place in France in May 1968. This month was marked by demonstrations, strikes and the occupation of universities and factories. It got to a point where political leaders feared civil war or a revolution.

Nougaro lived in Paris at that time and he was profoundly touched by the events that took place.

J’aime Paris au mois de mai Quand les bourgeons renaissent Qu’une nouvelle jeunesse S’empare de la vieille cité Qui se met à rayonner

33. Édith Piaf – Les Amants de Paris (1948)

Les Amants de Paris is another beautiful song by Edith Piaf, one of the most famous French singers (you may know her from La Vie en Rose ). This song speaks about Parisian lovers.

Les amants de Paris couchent sur ma chanson. A Paris, les amants s’aiment à leur façon. Les refrains que je leur dis, C’est plus beau que les beaux jours. Ça fait des tas de printemps et le printemps fait l’amour.

34. Mireille Mathieu – Paris en Colère (1966)

This song celebrates the Resistance movement and the liberty of France. It portrays Paris as a human being who is both angry and courageous.

Paris se réveille Et il ouvre ses prisons Paris a la fièvre Il la soigne à sa façon

35. Bénabar – Paris by Night (2014)

As its name predicts, Paris by Night is a song about all the things you can do at night in the French capital. It talks about going out for dinner, going to the bar and clubbing.

Paris by night Au hasard de la nuit qui nous prend par la main et nous laisse au matin Paris by night Ce qui me réjouit c’est qu’on regrettera demain que ce dont on se souvient

36. Jacques Dutronc – Paris s’éveille (1968)

Paris s’eveille is one of the most famous French songs about Paris. In 1991, this song was even voted the best French-language single of all time!

Il est cinq heures Paris s’éveille Paris s’éveille Le café est dans les tasses Les cafés nettoient leurs glaces Et sur le boulevard Montparnasse La gare n’est plus qu’une carcasse

Songs about Paris – Final thoughts

And voila! These were 36 of the best and most famous songs about Paris. I hope you found exactly what you were looking for.

What’s your favourite song about Paris? Or do you think a Parisian song is missing from this list? Let me know in the comments! I’m keeping this list updated and am keeping an eye open for new songs about Paris coming out as well.

Did you enjoy this post and would you like to discover more music? You may also like this article with some of the best songs about travelling .

Laura Meyers

Laura Meyers is the founder of Laure Wanders. She was born in Belgium and has travelled to over 40 countries, many of them solo. She currently spends most of her time between Belgium and South Asia and loves helping other travellers plan their adventures abroad.

The 20 best songs about Paris

Gearing up for a trip to the City of Light? Get in the mood with our run-down of the absolute best songs about Paris

Paris has been a go-to subject for artists of all stripes, across every medium for generations – just check out these films where the City of Light very much gets top billing. So it’s no surprise there have been so many thousands of pop and jazz songs written about the French capital, too. From nostalgic and subversive locals who capture the real essence of life in this miraculous city to wide-eyed foreign visitors riffing about what it is that makes it such a magnet for outsiders, these are the absolute best songs about Paris according to us. Bonne écoute!

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20. ‘La Bohème’ – Charles Aznavour 

First recorded in 1965, this classic of the chanson genre is both a tribute to the Armenian-French singer’s upbringing in Montmartre and a lament to the changing face of his beloved neighbourhood. Aznavour’s signature song – which would become an international hit, thanks to Italian , Spanish , English and German re-recordings – is an adieu to the long-gone days of real, villagey, bohemian Montmartre. In it, he remembers a hungry yet contented childhood spent toiling away at artworks in this northern area of Paris, which has today, in parts, become a victim of its own success. Although it has nothing on the original, also check out this 9-minute rework from Chilean composer-producer Nicolas Jaar, which does a decent job of transposing Aznavour’s nostalgia and melancholy to the dance floor.

19. ‘Give Paris One More Chance’ – Jonathan Richman

‘The home of Piaf and Charles Aznavour must have done something right,’ chants legendary singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman in this typically wide-eyed ode to the City of Love and the pioneering chanteurs and chanteuses it gave us. ‘And if you doubt that Paris was made for love,’ he muses in the refrain, ‘give Paris one more chance.’ A pivotal turning point in Richman’s impressive and prolific career, 1983 album ‘Jonathan Sings!’ was the musician’s first solo outing after he effectively ditched proto-punk outfit the Modern Lovers in 1979, and this stripped-back tribute is its centrepiece. Haters will say it’s overly simple and naïve, fans will call it rock ‘n’ roll songwriting at its best.

18. ‘Paris Sous les Bombes’ – Suprême NTM

The hip-hop duo comprising JoeyStarr and Kool Shen – who some consider the godfathers of French rap – showed real signs of genius on their third album, the provocatively titled ‘Paris Sous les Bombes’ (‘bombes’ being a reference to the Aerosol cans used by the duo’s graffiti artist friends). Notorious for rubbing the authorities up the wrong way, the two rappers tackle gang life in the Seine-Saint-Denis banlieues . On the title track, they reminisce about adrenaline-fuelled nights spent spray-painting their neighbourhood walls, with plenty of shout-outs to graffiti gangs like the Funky COP and the 93 crew. Working in an ingenious sample of Eric B and Rakim’s ‘My Melody’ , renowned hip-hop producer Lucien lays down a sinister, infectious funk of a beat, while Starr and Shen fire creepy whispered rhymes over the top.

17. ‘J’ai Deux Amours’ – Josephine Baker

In what has become a pseudo-anthem for the American expat in Paris, ‘J’ai Deux Amours’ plays on Josephine Baker’s dual status as both foreigner and adopted resident of the capital. Celebrating her two cultural loves (the literal translation of the title is ‘I have two loves’), the lyrics from Géo Koger and Henri Varna may also serve – some have suggested – as a metaphor for Baker’s bisexuality, which was subject to much attention during her pre-WWII heyday. During the war, the singer/dancer/cabaret artist retrained as a counter-espionage agent, before working for the Croix-Rouge and later in intelligence for the Résistance movement. By 1945, she’d very much distanced herself from her native USA, to such an extent that she would eventually change the second verse of the refrain from ‘J’ai deux amours, mon pays et Paris’ (‘I have two loves, my country and Paris’) to ‘J’ai deux amours, mon pays, c’est Paris’ (‘I have two loves, my country is Paris’).

16. ‘Under the Bridges of Paris’ – Eartha Kitt

Vincent Cotto and Jean Rodor wrote the original ‘Sous les Ponts de Paris’ way back in 1913, but the song only really came into its own when English verses were added by lyricist Dorcas Cochran four decades later. Although recordings were subsequently taped with the likes of Dean Martin and Vera Lynn (among others), it’s Eartha Kitt’s exquisitely recorded version that really stands out. Set to a backing of accordion-mimicking orchestral flourishes and a swaying nursery-rhyme lilt, Kitt’s quirky yet soulful voice is at its most striking. Lyrically, couplets like ‘How would you like to be / down by the Seine with me’ are timeless, and have no doubt inspired countless real-life lovers to head to the quais .

15. ‘Paris is Burning’ – St. Vincent

In 2006, American musician Annie Clark was busy leading a double life as touring guitarist extraordinaire for the likes of Sufjan Stevens and the Polyphonic Spree and as mysterious solo artist under the moniker St. Vincent, making dark indie-pop out of her bedroom on rudimentary DIY software. A good six or seven years before she became the critical art-rock darling and massive crossover star she is today, debut album ‘Marry Me’ was a dark, brave and ornately composed work that contained many of the hallmarks of her later material but that was largely overlooked at the time. At its centre lies ‘Paris is Burning’, a downbeat waltz with a martial vibe and a dizzying array of guitar sounds that describes an underclass revolt in the city – perhaps in reference to the Paris Commune of 1871. The image of such a wondrous city in flames also works as a metaphor for something more relatable, like struggling to get out of a destructive relationship.

14. ‘Place Pigalle’ – Elliott Smith

Following his lengthy 1999 world tour, the late, great Elliott Smith settled down in Paris for a few months. Every so often, B-sides and ‘lost songs’ of Smith’s seem to appear out of nowhere – most likely stored away on personal four-track recorders or in mysterious record label vaults – and one of the best of these forgotten demos stems from his time spent in Paris. The 9th arrondissement square at the foot of Montmartre – the ‘Place Pigalle’ – provides the charming setting and the subject is a fleeting relationship he had with a French girl on this ‘temporary half-holiday’. Recorded just before the release of his final and most successful album ‘Figure 8’, the track is a tender, string-laden rumination on love in a foreign city.

13. ‘Paname’ – Booba

‘Je rappe so easily,’ he says in a fluid Franglais. It’s exactly the kind of self-aggrandising remark we’ve come to expect from the biggest star in contemporary French rap, who in this song imagines himself watching over the sprawling city and its western suburbs. Referred to familiarly as ‘Paname’, Paris is Booba’s dominion, and on this track he exalts the city, himself and his lifestyle, while also not forgetting to ridicule his critics. With bits of Arabic and Senegalese dropped in here and there, the profoundly dark lyrics are shot through with braggadocio, comparing his flow to a gunshot and boasting that he’s so rich you’d think he's a narco-trafficker. But it’s not just a personal display of power – the chorus, after all, contains a very explicit political message. For him, Front National leader Marine Le Pen represents the scourge-like ‘racaille’ (‘trash’ or ‘vermin’) of the French state, which is his response to a heinous comment the politician once made about immigrants.

12. ‘I Love Paris’ – Ella Fitzgerald

This straightforwardly-named songbook standard was written by famed songwriter Cole Porter in 1953 and later performed by names as diverse as Bing Crosby , Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Frank Sinatra . But nothing tops Ella Fitzgerald’s magical take, which appears on her 1956 album ‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook’. The song is as simple as homages go, with Paris simply a symbol of enduring beauty: ‘I love Paris every moment / every moment of the year / I love Paris, why oh why do I love Paris / because my love is near’. Fitzgerald’s brilliantly produced session puts her impeccable phrasing and clarity of tone at the fore, while the between-verse big band passages are as sweet as they are stately.

11. ‘Free Man in Paris’ (Live) – Joni Mitchell

Though never mentioned by name, entertainment mogul David Geffen is the subject of this highlight from Mitchell’s jazzy ‘Court and Spark’ album. A friend of hers in the early 1970s, ‘free man’ Geffen was the top dog at Asylum Records at the time and he had made his thoughts and feelings about the job perfectly clear when the pair holidayed together in Paris. It was only when travelling around the French capital that he felt free from the constraints and demands of his role, as Mitchell’s trilling refrain describes: ‘I’m a free man in Paris / I felt unfettered and alive / there was nobody calling me up for favours / and no one’s future to decide’. Sung from Mitchell’s lips but from Geffen’s perspective, many consider the song to convey a strong message of empowerment for young women. The best version is this live rendition from the ‘Shadows and Light’ show, which has Jaco Pastorius doing his mesmerising jazz bass thing in the background.

10. ‘Paris’ – Little Dragon

Nobody does sad pop music quite like the Swedes, and this 2014 track from Gothenburg four-piece Little Dragon must surely be one of the saddest songs ever written – however tangentially – about the French capital. Taking the city as a hypothetical future rendezvous for a long-distance friendship that’s already been tragically cut short, lead singer Yukimi Nagano tells of how Paris was the marvellous location she and her departed friend had at last decided to meet. They never would, alas, and the song is really about feeling alone, while moving forward and leaving sadness behind: ‘It’s that time to transform / to come around, I’m changing,’ sings Nagano. It was on this song that her smooth and adaptable voice would really come in its own, both in the RnB-inflected verses and the breathy, Jane Birkin-style French interlude, in which she marvels at the vivacity of the City of Light: ‘La Suède est où je vis / Mais c’est à Paris que je me sens en vie’ (‘I live in Sweden / but Paris is where I feel alive’).

9. ‘Ménilmontant’ – Charles Trenet

If you’ve never dipped into Charles Trenet’s imposing back catalogue of nearly 1,000 songs, ‘Ménilmontant’ is one of the best places to start. Rare among his contemporaries for having written most of his own material, Trenet always drew great inspiration from Paris and this song is a poignant personal homage to the north-eastern neighbourhood. Beautifully structured, wittily delivered and packed with poetic detail, he sweetly recalls the beaux jours of his upbringing spent hopping on and off trains, at church, on the streets and enjoying live music. Arriving in 1938, a year before he was called up to serve in the French army, these nostalgic ruminations on his ‘souvenirs jamais perdus’ (‘memories never to be forgotten’) are infused with both fondness and a creeping sense of pathos.

8. ‘1901’ – Phoenix

It can be difficult to interpret the lyrics of Versailles band Phoenix. ‘1901’ – a sleeper hit from 2009’s breakthrough fourth album ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ – was the song that would introduce the band to a vast throng of new fans, and yet, frontman Thomas Mars’s accented sing-song English didn’t really make a whole deal of sense. Fortunately, the singer would eventually spill the beans about the song’s deeper meaning in a live session , stating that ‘1901’ was a ‘fantasy about Paris’ before and during the Belle Époque – which is when he reckons the city was at its cultural and artistic zenith. Previously unclear references to 1855 (the year of France’s first international exhibition) and a certain ‘material tower’ suddenly made much more sense. In any case, the song is an aptly bouncy tribute to the city and it would set the blueprint for Phoenix’s now-classic pop-rock sound: pristine production, tight arrangements and clean guitar lines that ring around your head for hours afterwards.

7. ‘Sous le Ciel de Paris’ – Edith Piaf

With music written by Hubert Giraud and lyrics from Jean Dréjac, ‘Sous le Ciel de Paris’ is the lead song from the little-known 1951 film of the same title. First performed by Jean Bretonnière but transformed into something altogether more powerful by Edith Piaf in 1954, the song once again pays homage to the enduring beauty and magical fairy-tale quality of the city. In this rendition, France’s famed national chanteuse applies her throaty Belleville twang to lines like ‘Sous le ciel de paris / coule un fleuve joyeux’ (‘under the sky of Paris / runs a joyous river’) with such emotion and charisma you can’t but help believe her when she claims that deep down, Parisians are ‘un peuple épris de sa vieille cité’ (‘a people enamoured with their old city’). Piaf often sang about the hilly north-eastern alleys she grew up on, and this song – although written by someone else – overflows with similar such homey descriptions of street musicians and thoughtful flâneurs . It finishes brilliantly, with the image of a rainbow glimmering up above.

6. ‘Paris 1919’ – John Cale

Back in 1973, following turns as a producer for the likes of the Stooges and Nico, a couple of iffy solo albums, and having just co-founded one of the world’s most important ever rock bands in the Velvet Underground, legendary avant-gardist John Cale put out possibly the most accessible album of his career. Met with shamefully little fanfare, ‘Paris 1919’ was the classically trained musician’s first and only foray into sweetly melodic baroque pop, packed full with luscious horns, strings and simple piano phrasings. In stark contrast to the upbeat feel of the arrangements, his playful, Dada-inspired lyrics were far from straightforward, with the whole album being described by many as a bizarre reimagining of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Kicking off side B, the astonishing title track is best read as merely impressionistic, Cale’s musings intended to evoke an atmosphere and not to be taken at face value.

5. ‘Niggas in Paris’ – Jay-Z & Kanye West

Not only did it bring the phrase ‘that shit cray’ into popular ironic parlance, it was also the tune that cemented Kanye’s reputation as ever-so-slightly ridiculous hip-hop great. Inspired by his luxurious travels in Paris (where he was trying to make his name on the fashion scene), ‘Niggas in Paris’ was recorded by West with equally massive rap pal Mr Shawn Carter at the five-star Hôtel Meurice , opposite the Tuileries gardens. Over a slow, clattering drumbeat, booming sub-bass and an icy synth line, the two rappers acknowledge the long line of African-American artists who have sought cultural acceptance in Paris (from Josephine Baker to Nina Simone), all the while looking back at childhood friends who haven’t escaped poverty. Bellows Jay-Z: ‘If you escaped what I’ve escaped / You’d be in Paris getting fucked up too / Let’s get faded, Le Meurice for like five days’. It was a strange moment when a song so bombastic, and completely unrelated to French politics, was later used in a viral video as part of François Hollande’s 2012 election bid – but it clearly worked.

4. ‘Le Poinçonneur des Lilas’ – Serge Gainsbourg

Before the days of ugly grey machines and electromagnetic tickets, every Parisian Métro train had a ticket inspector (a ‘poinçonneur’), whose lonely and repetitive job it was to stamp holes in passengers’ tickets, stuck in a dull and lightless underground limbo. In 1958, getting his career off to a typically morbid and subversive start, Serge Gainsbourg would compose and release debut single ‘Le Poinçonneur des Lilas’, which minutely describes the dark inner workings of the job. Describing the Métro as a ‘drôle de croisière’ (a ‘funny kind of cruise’) and a ‘cloaque’ (‘cesspit’), Gainsbourg’s poinçonneur explains how his daily activities are so dreary and demoralising that he even considers punching a hole in his own head. The provocative musician would later have a crack at yé-yé, funk, rock and reggae, but this song is firmly rooted in the chanson tradition, with the silly, echoing chorus of ‘J’fais des trous, des p’tits trous, encore des p’tits trous’ (‘I make holes, little holes, more little holes’) totally at odds with the bleak yet consolatory message that surrounds it. In 2010, in tribute to this brilliant, career-launching song, the ultra-modern Jardin Serge-Gainsbourg was inaugurated near the Porte des Lilas, and in 2020 a new station on the line 11 will also bear Gainsbourg’s name.

3. ‘April in Paris’ – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

The 1930s jazz standard ‘April in Paris’ first became a hit thanks to a debut 1934 rendition by Freddy Martin , but it wasn’t until its timely revival in 1952 as the title hit for a Doris Day musical film that the song was properly welcomed into the jazz canon. During this period, the likes of Count Basie , Frank Sinatra , Charlie Parker , Billie Holiday , Thelonious Monk and Shirley Bassey would all give it a whirl, but nothing compares to this tear-jerking joint interpretation by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, which appears on influential 1956 album ‘Ella & Louis’. Accompanied by the reliable Oscar Peterson trio and Buddy Rich on drums, the pair flaunt perfectly complementary voices, Fitzgerald’s buttery vocal a flawless match for Armstrong’s gruff delivery and mellifluous trumpeting. Given its subject matter and how romantically the pair appear to perform it, it’s no surprise the song is now a staple of the Parisian jazz café.

2. ‘I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)’ – Grace Jones

Describing one of the more sinister aspects of Parisian nightlife (namely, the fact that the same creepy man seemingly lurks on every shady street corner), Grace Jones’s signature hit ‘I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)’ is a chilling account of the musician’s time spent partying in the city. Taken from her fantastic 1981 album ‘Nightclubbing’, the song is a pulsing reggae twist on Astor Piazzola’s Argentine tango classic ‘Libertango’ , with added lyrics written by Jones and Barry Reynolds, along with wobbly Jamaican riddims from the legendary Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. Jones’s immaculate recording is most haunting when the singer addresses this dodgy mystery man with a series of direct French questions: ‘Tu cherches quoi? À rencontrer la mort? Tu te prends pour qui? Toi aussi tu détestes la vie…’ (What are you looking for? Death? Who do you think you are? You hate life, as well…’). Now just as famous for its iconic music video and artwork by French designer Jean-Paul Goude, the song captures the ambiguous feel of Paris’s ’70s clubbing scene with a great deal of originality and flair.

1. ‘L'Accordéoniste’ – Edith Piaf

The Little Sparrow strikes again. This song – recorded a good fifteen years before ‘Sous le Ciel de Paris’ , above – was composed and proposed to Piaf in 1940 by composer Michel Emer, just as he was about to go and serve in the French army. Immediately struck by the song’s potent evocation of life in the city and Emer’s clear intention to say au revoir to all that he loves, Piaf would go on to perform the song at legendary Bobino concert hall a few days later and make it one of her first big smashes. Telling the tale of a roaming prostitute, her waltz-playing accordionist boyfriend and their apparently hopeless dreams of reuniting after the war, the song veers from happy to sad at lightning pace: at one moment Piaf declares ‘que la vie sera belle’ (‘how beautiful life will be’) on his return, at another she states fatalistically, ‘Adieux tous les beaux rêves / sa vie elle est foutue’ (‘Adieu to all the good dreams / her life is fucked’). In the end, all the poor woman can do is sing and dance and forget all that’s been said before. Looking at a video like this , the way Piaf would perform so capricious a song so effortlessly – as though a natural stream of consciousness – is really quite magical.

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25 Songs About Paris That’ll Take You Right There

Last Updated on March 17, 2023

Whether you’ve planned a trip to France or are simply dreaming of being there, music is a powerful and visceral way to virtually travel. From chanson française classics to dreamy piano concertos and Afro-European pop, songs about Paris (or ones that evoke the city and its culture in some way) can transport and inspire.

Even if you have no trip to the capital on the horizon, there are a few ways you can still get your Parisian fix, right from your couch or while attempting a soufflé in your kitchen (hint: don’t open that oven to check on its progress!) Keep reading for my carefully curated playlist of music– both French and otherwise– that takes you there.

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Jacques Brel appears on the Paris Unlocked compilation of songs about Paris that'll transport you straight to the capital.

I’ve put together a compilation of over 25 songs that, at least when I’m in the right frame of mind, bring me straight to Paris. Hopefully, they’ll do the trick for you too.

They’re not all necessarily about the city, but they’re permeated with it, in ways that are both subtle and obvious. Some of these “Paris songs” are linked to personal memories and experiences, while others are pure classics that most of you will recognize.

You can listen to the playlist for free here, on Spotify . And below, I offer a few brief comments on what makes the first songs I chose worthy of the cut (in my humble opinion, anyway). I’ll then aim to expand it in the coming months until I cover all the songs on the original playlist.

But I certainly don’t intend for it to be static. Feel free to add suggestions for how I can expand the list in your comments– then watch as it grows and evolves with your input.

Enjoy– and remember, we’ll always have Paris.

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1. Paris Combo: On n’a Pas Besoin

Paris Combo tops our list of Paris songs. Why? Parce que.

The opening song from Paris Combo’s eponymous debut album sets the mood for a virtual Parisian evening, with jazzy strings and smooth, gradually intensifying vocals from Belle du Berry.

The French group’s sound echoes numerous influences, from Django Reinhardt to big-band swing, cabaret tunes and Afro-Cuban rhythms.

This track inevitably shuttles me back to a Paris of the early 2000s, when I first moved to the city as a bright-eyed, aspiring writer.

It evokes muggy summer evenings with windows flung open, looking out over the rooftops and marveling at a city that remained mostly unknown to me.

Lines to remember: “On n’a pas besoin de chercher si loin/On trouve ce qu’on veut, à côté d’chez soi ( You don’t need to look far/One finds what one wants close to home ).

The chorus is ironic, since the song in fact castigates those with unadventurous, closed minds who fear anything or anyone different. But as a “quarantune”, you have to admit that it’s somewhat fitting.

2. Amadou & Mariam: Je Pense à Toi

This is probably one of the most haunting and simple love songs composed in French over the past few decades. It skyrocketed up the charts in France upon its release in 1998.

Written by Malian duo Amadou & Mariam , the song features the former’s earnest, lilting vocals paired with simple percussion and violin. It’s the ballad of anxious, devoted lovers everywhere; those who fear they may have too little to offer and far too much to lose.

It’s Parisian because it conquered the city to become a timeless ballad. It remains played (and drunkenly belted) in melancholy lounges and moody bars, alongside standards like Brel’s “Ne me quitte pas” (see further down).

Lines to remember: “Certains t’ont promis la terre/D’autres promettent le ciel/Il y en a qui t’ont promis la lune/Et moi je n’ai rien que ma pauvre guitare ( Some have promised you the earth/Others have promised the sky/Some have promised you the moon/And I’ve nothing [to offer] but my poor guitar )

3. Joni Mitchell: Free Man in Paris

All-around genius Joni Mitchell wrote this song, the story goes, for her producer and friend David Geffen. The second track on her 1974 double-platinum album Court and Spark , the song tells the story of a frayed, overworked executive who can’t get away from the demands of aspiring stars.

But he finds freedom, of course, in the anonymous streets of the French capital.

This is one of Mitchell’s lighter, more playful tracks, perhaps because she’s putting herself in someone else’s shoes and is clearly having fun with it.

It features catchy guitars and jazzy refrain centered around woodwinds. Graham Nash and David Crosby are on background vocals.

Lines to remember: “If I had my way, I’d just walk through those doors/And wander down the Champs-Elysées/Goin’ café to cabaret/Wonderin’ how I’ll feel when I find/That very good friend of mine…

On a side note, I prefer imagining Joni herself wandering down the “Champs”. But I’d also like to tell her that it’s really not the most interesting place to be if you hope to get an even remotely local experience of the city…

4. Yann Tiersen: Monochrome

Yann Tiersen rose to fame by composing numerous songs from the Amelie soundtrack (and one is featured further down in this playlist, by the way). But it’s his third studio album Le Phare (1998) that I’ve always found the most compelling. Incidentally, three songs from the album were added to the aforementioned soundtrack.

“Monochrome”, track number three, is the only song on the album with lyrics in (a charmingly pronounced and syntactically poetic) English.

It features vocals from French songwriter and Tiersen collaborator Dominique A, as well as swelling violin, a small, tinkling bell, and accordions that (for once) don’t irritate the s&!@t out of me.

Lines to remember: “I am piling up some unread books under my bed/ and I really think I’ll never read again/No concentration, just a white disorder everywhere around me, you know I’m so tired now/Don’t worry, I often go to dinners and parties/ with some old friends who care for me, take me back home and stay/Monochrome floors, monochrome walls, only absence near me/nothing but silence around me…”

During some of my moodier and darker days in Paris (and there were a few), Tiersen’s song seemed a fitting anthem indeed.

Paris is known as the ville grisatre (grey city) par excellence, especially in the eyes of French people who live outside the capital. And on a rainy, short November day, this is the mood that tends to reign there.

5. Jeff Buckley covering Edith Piaf: Je n’en connais pas la fin (live)

This is probably my favorite cover from the late, great Jeff Buckley: a brilliant, haunted version of Edith Piaf’s “Je n’en connais pas la fin”, appearing on Buckley’s powerful Live at Siné album.

Lines to remember: “I can’t forget my little square/Even though I’m so far away/I can’t forget my little fair/Maybe she’s still there, still there today/I sometimes hear that little tune/Playing in a dream of long ago…/And in my brain/runs the refrain/that old French refrain/I used to know…/Oh mon amour…”

This hits the nostalgic spot in my own brain, on so many levels. I discovered Buckley during my first year living in France– in Lyon, rather than in Paris. His albums were a constant presence in the years that followed.

And this song in particular creates an aching sense of homesickness for a city where I no longer live in (save a few precious weeks a year.) It particularly makes me think of Belleville , the quartier Piaf is likely referencing in her original song , and where I lived for many years.

I also am inevitably moved by the respect and indebtedness with which Buckley takes up Piaf’s legacy. It’s rare for a male musician to cover female artists with such reverence, but when Buckley breaks out into a falsetto on the chorus, singing O mon amour…. , there’s something eerie about how he almost channels his predecessor.

It’s one of the many reasons why I will always lament that the world lost Buckley so early, and far too soon.

6. Marc Lavoine & Souad Massi: Paris

Marc Lavoine and Souad Massi, "Paris", a song about the cruelty of the city for some of the most vulnerable residents

This stirring duet from French songwriter Marc Lavoine and native Algerian/now-Parisian musician Souad Massi has stayed with me ever since it featured in an ad for a city-wide cinema event years ago. It’s an adaptation of the original song written by Lavoine , and his collaboration with Massi makes it even more powerful.

With moving vocals, Spanish-style guitar and percussion that draws on North African traditions, the song imagines the city as a sort of cruel suitor.

This is a Paris that heartlessly discards and stamps on vulnerable residents, who remain devoted to the city and plead that they’ll do anything for it, as they drift from cafes to cinemas, hotels to boulevards.

Lines to remember: “Paris Paris combien?/Paris tu ce que tu veux/Boulevards des bouleversés/Paris tu m’as renversé/Paris tu m’as laissé ” ( Paris, Paris, how much?/Paris, anything you want/Boulevards of the devastated/Paris, you ran me over/Paris, you left me behind)

This is one of several songs on the playlist that cast the French capital as an unforgiving object of love. Listen to it alongside “Paris Nous Nourrit, Paris Nous Affame” by La Rumeur (track 18).

7. Françoise Hardy: Le Temps de l’Amour

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Switching to a more relaxed and nostalgic mode, let’s turn now to a classic track from Françoise Hardy, the genuine darling of 1960s France. (You may think it’s Brigitte Bardot, but Hardy has a more positive legacy, not least since Bardot is now a vocal racist and xenophobe who campaigns for the far-right in France.)

Opening with surf-style guitar, the track is pure summer insouciance and youthful nostalgia. Hardy, with her deep yet effortlessly poppy voice, announces that “this is the time of love, friends and adventure”– and we’re off.

If this track doesn’t make you think of lazy, dusky evenings along the Seine or the Canal St-Martin, sipping rosé and kisses, I’m not sure what would.

Lines to remember: “Car le temps de l’amour/C’est long et c’est court/Ca dure toujours, on s’en souvient/On se dit qu’ a vingt ans on est le roi du monde/Et qu’ éternellement il y aura dans nos yeux/Tout le ciel bleu.”( Because the time of love/Is long and short/It lasts forever, we’ll remember/At 20 you think you’re the king of the world/And that eternally/the whole blue sky/will be in our eyes”)

Part of the charm of the song is that it implicitly either looks back on youth’s belief in its own eternity, or shows a rare moment when youth becomes conscious of its fleeting nature.

But screw the ponderous analysis. It’s fun. C’est tout.

8. Edith Piaf: C’était une Histoire d’Amour

You may have guessed that at least one classic track performed by the legendary Edith Piaf would make it into the top 10– and you were correct. While “La Vie en Rose” is probably her most-recognized song (see the cover from Dalida further down on the playlist), “ C’était une histoire d’amour” (It Was a Love Story) is probably my favorite.

It admittedly helps that accordions are refreshingly absent from this 1943 song. It’s a relatively pared-back composition whose semi-muted, jazzy strings complement Piaf’s robust vocals.

The song tells the story of a love affair come and gone, with the present-day “chagrin” worth the joys of the past.

It’s a wistful, deeply moving portrait of someone surveying the ashes of un amour perdu , but proving the truism that “It’s better to have loved and lost…”

Lines to remember: “Mais quand les histoires sont trop jolies/Ça ne peut pas durer toujours…/C’était une histoire d’amour/Ma part de joie ma part de fête/Il a bien fallu qu’elle s’achète/Pour me faire un chagrin d’amour.” (But when {love} stories are too pretty/They can ‘t last forever/It was a love story/My share of joy, my share of celebration/It had to spend itself/To give me heartache)

After listening to the track, consider taking a self-guided tour of Edith Piaf’s Paris. It works well as a virtual exploration, too.

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Courtney Traub is the Founder and Editor of Paris Unlocked. She’s a longtime Paris resident who now divides her time (as well as she can manage) between the French capital and Norwich, UK. Co-author of the 2012 Michelin Green Guide to Northern France & the Paris Region, she has been interviewed as an expert on Paris and France by the BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Le Figaro, Matador Network and other publications. Courtney has also written and reported stories for media outlets including Radio France Internationale, The Christian Science Monitor, Women’s Wear Daily and The Associated Press. In addition to going down various rabbit holes of curiosity when it comes to French culture, history, food and art, Courtney is a scholar of literature and cultural history whose essays and reviews have appeared in various forums.

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Love Trip Paris Season 1: Where Are the Participants Now?

Freeform’s ‘Love Trip Paris’ is a dating reality TV show that follows four singles who are prepared to uproot their life and leave everything behind in search of true love beyond the borders but in the fashion capital. The individuals go on a journey to find love and participate in a daring social experiment for people who have failed to find love in the country.

Each of them takes an amazing trip to Paris, where they meet their perfect life partner and stay in a penthouse in the middle of Paris with French suitors waiting to date them. Season 1 introduced four free-spirited personalities who embarked on a journey to find “the one.” So it is natural for fans of the show to wonder what happened to the singles in the show.

Josielyn Aguilera is Thriving as an Artist Today

Josielyn Aguilera is a determined and aspirational young woman in ‘Love Trip: Paris’ who is searching for love but won’t accept anything less than perfection. She swiftly wins the group over with her charismatic demeanor and endearing smile. Josielyn made her acting debut in 2022 in the movie ‘Jacked’ as Amira. She has since made appearances on the TV shows ‘Quantum Leap’ and ‘Not so Straight in Silver Lake.’

The camera-friendly artist frequently posts sizzling, high-fashion photographs on Instagram, proving why she also chose to model as a career. The model is currently based in LA and has been associated with Slay Models. It doesn’t seem that Josielyn might have a partner at the moment, but the gorgeous Latino-American actress is slaying every day. A not-so-known fact about Josielyn is that she is a brilliant artist, and though making cute sketches is just a hobby, the actress is great at it.

Lacy Hartselle is Focusing on Her Podcast

Lacy Hartselle preaches the phrase, “Jack of all trades.” Lucy is a big personality and has made appearances in multiple productions. Lacy most recently starred in ‘All Those Small Things.’ She stars in ‘Ouija Craftm’ ‘Christmas in July,’ ‘Curse of the Nun,’ ‘American Hunt,’ ‘Death Cast,’ ‘Novitiate,’ and ‘The Gods of Summer.’ In television, Lacy most recently appears in ‘The Purge,’ ‘Nashville,’ and ‘#killerpost.’ Lacy may be seen in national advertisements alongside Dierks Bentley for Dodge, Walgreens, Geico, ESPN, Jolly Rancher, Chick-Fil-A, Papa John’s, Firestone, and 5 Hour Energy outside of television and movies.

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Lacy also stars in the music videos for a number of country musicians, including Luke Bryan, Hunter Hayes, Easton Corbin, and Dan + Shay. Lacy is a multi-talented star since she can sing mezzo-soprano and dance with skill. She speaks basic French and is fluent in several dialects of the US, including Brooklyn/Jersey, Southern, Trans-Atlantic, and Standard American. ‘This Is Temporary,’ a podcast that de-stigmatizes mental health, was also founded and is hosted by Lacy. It’s a relatable, uncensored mental health podcast about finding meaning in suffering.

Caroline Renner is Thriving Today

Caroline Renner is a beautiful woman who is not shy to express herself with confidence. The reality Tv star has made another appearance onscreen in a short film called ‘Medium Rare.’ The talented star is a Fitness Trainer by profession and also a strength & nutrition coach who helps people holistically lose weight, get into shape, or simply lead a healthier lifestyle.

The fitness trainer identifies herself as she/they and is an active member of the LGBT community. Caroline appeared on the show to find love, and she indeed found a loving partner, Lisa Déborah, with whom the star is madly in love. We wish the happy couple good luck and hope they cherish each other forever and a day more.

Rose Zilla-Ba is Focusing on Her Career Today

Rose Zilla-Ba hasn’t had much experience on screen as she is currently pursuing her degree in Architecture from the Boston Architectural College. She is an extremely talented person whose singing notes are just perfect. You can check out her music and more on her YouTube channel and get to know Rose a little better. The 25-year-old reality Tv star is currently residing in Boston and is living her best life with her friends and family.

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With the runaway success of Emily in Paris , it was only a matter of time before a reality competition placed Americans in the City of Love so that they can, well, fall in love. That's exactly what you get with Love Trip: Paris , a reality dating show coming to Freeform and Hulu.

In a refreshing development to the reality dating show scene, some of the women heading to Paris to find love aren't just looking for French men. The LGBTQ+ friendly series is sure to delight fans of all orientations who want to cheer for people finding their people.

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Love Trip: Paris release date

Love Trip: Paris premieres on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, February 14, on Freeform and Hulu. The first two two episodes are being released on the premiere day, beginning at 9 pm ET/PT.

After the premiere, episodes will air weekly on Freeform and Hulu on Tuesdays at 10 pm ET/PT.

The first episode is titled "New Country, Same Mistake." Here is the description: "Four American girls unlucky in love in the US move to Paris to find their soulmates. Afraid of repeating mistakes from back home, Lacy, Rose, Caroline and Josielyn are ready for a change of scenery… but old habits are tough to break!"

The second episode is titled "Love Blooms." Here's the description: "Two new suitors catch Josielyn's interest. Rose takes a shot with another man. Caroline turns up the heat. Lacy reveals a shocking secret from her past."

As of this writing there is no release date for UK audiences, but we will provide an update here as soon as updates are available.

Love Trip: Paris plot

Here's the Love Trip: Paris plot from Freeform: "Follows four American women as they move into a penthouse in the middle of Paris with French suitors waiting to date them. Is this love trip their one-way ticket to romance, or to a heartbreak in another language?"

Love Trip: Paris cast

Thanks to Teen Vogue , we know a little bit more about the contestants in Love Trip: Paris and what they’re looking for in an ideal mate.

Caroline is a New Yorker and a personal trainer who is looking for the ideal girlfriend in Paris.

Rose, a Boston realtor, is looking for a "passionate Frenchman."

Lacey, a Nashville-based mental health podcaster, learned French during the pandemic and hopes to find the right girl or guy in Paris.

Josielyn, a model based in Los Angeles, thinks that she'll find her soulmate in Paris.

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Freeform is available with most cable packages, so if you have cable you probably already have Freeform. If you've cut the cord, you can find Freefrom in the channel lineup for several streaming services like FuboTV , Hulu with Live TV , Sling TV and YouTube TV .

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Our Favorite Paris Tours for Families You Won't Want to Miss

P aris is such a great choice for your next trip to Europe with your kids. The City of Lights offers beauty, history, and an abundance of activities for children of all ages. One of the best things about planning a Paris vacation is all the family-friendly tours, engaging museum guides, French baking classes, fun day trips, and boat rides you can book. It makes visiting Paris much easier with kids. If you’re overwhelmed with choices, this is a curated list of the best Paris tours for families so your entire family has the best time possible!

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Best Paris Tours for Families

Planning a family trip to Paris can be an unforgettable adventure, with amazing experiences for both kids and adults. From exploring the city’s iconic attractions to immersing in the local culture through engaging cooking classes, Paris offers activities for all ages. We promise these are the best Paris tours for families that are sure to add a bit of magic to your itinerary!

Free Tours in Paris

Paris highlights walking tour.

Is this your first time in the French Capital? It’s a good idea to start your family trip with a city tour. This Free Tour of Paris is tips-based so you know your guide will work hard for their earnings.

The first stop on this twice-daily tour is Hôtel de Ville which ends around 2.5 hours later in Tuileries Gardens. Visit iconic landmarks like the Notre Dame Cathedral, Pont des Arts, Pont Neuf, and so much more.

This is a great opportunity to learn about the history of Paris, and get your bearings. It’s also a great opportunity to ask a local guide for recommendations!

Be warned: it’s not a short walk. Wear comfortable shoes and bring strollers or carriers for small children.

Paris Mysteries and Legends Walking Tour

If this is a return family trip and you want to explore off the beaten track, check out the Free Paris Mysteries and Legends Tour . Again, it’s a tips-based tour in the heart of Paris but focuses less on the tourist attractions and more on the dark secrets hidden in the heart of Paris.

This 2.5-hour evening tour starts at Saint Michel Fountain and ends at Place Saint Innocents. You will visit and uncover the mysteries of Paris’s churches, cemeteries, criminals, and executions. This guided tour isn’t scary but it does take place at night so it’s better suited to those visiting Paris with teens .

Paris City Tours

Montmartre tour for kids (with sacré-coeur).

With its twisting cobblestone streets and artistic heritage, Montmartre is one of the most beautiful neighborhoods to experience in Paris. This super fun 2.5-hour Montmartre Kids Tour is one of the best private walking tours and the best Paris tours for families.

A kid-friendly guide will allow you to follow in the footsteps of artists like Van Gogh and Picasso. They will take you around the Sacré-Coeur Basilica and other cool spots in the surrounding neighborhood. Your kids won’t get bored and you can see Paris’s most beautiful neighborhood up close. Win-win!

Paris in a Day Tour for Kids (with Louvre)

Only have one full day to see the highlights of Paris and don’t want to waste a single second? Context Travel offers this super comprehensive, private six-hour Paris Tour for kids of all ages.

Visit the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Louvre, the lively Latin Quarter, churches, beautiful parks, and the top spots in Paris. One day isn’t enough to see everything, but you will feel like you made the most of your time.

Paris Seine Private Boat Tour

The Seine River flows through the middle of the city and is featured in countless songs and novels. Sailing along it is an unmissable experience! Families of up to five with kids of any age will love this Private Boat Tour on the Seine River .

It’s a 90-minute tour and your boat captain/guide will share fun facts about the structures and buildings as you sail along. Feel free to bring any snacks and pets on board too!

Paris Vintage Tour in a Sidecar Motorcycle

Walking tours and bus tours are great ways to explore Paris. But if you’re looking for unique and exciting activities, this Paris Motorcycle Sidecar Tour ticks those boxes!

This 90-minute private tour will pick you up from your hotel. From there you will head to the Louvre Museum, Arc de Triomphe, and Eiffel Tower in style. Note that only two passengers can fit in the sidecar but children as young as three can join the tour.

Louvre Private Family Tour with Treasure Hunt

There are plenty of kid-friendly museums in Paris , but a visit of Louvre Museum is on everyone’s Paris bucket list. Don’t be tempted to skip it with kids.

How can you explore the Louvre’s most famous masterpieces and ancient artifacts without dragging your kids around or bribing them first? Easy! Book this private, two-hour Louvre Family Tour and Scavenger Hunt with Paris Muse.

This is one of the best Paris tours for families. We love that it allows you to skip the line and see the best works of art (including the Mona Lisa!) while keeping your kids engaged. It is perfect for children ages six to 12.

Eiffel Tower Skip-the-Line Tour

If you haven’t booked your tickets for the Eiffel Tower in advance, you can expect super long lines. We’re talking waits of one hour plus! When you have young kids, it’s absolutely worth booking this Eiffel Tower Skip-the-Line Tour in advance.

Spend more time admiring the views from this famous observation point than looking at it from below!

Orsay Museum Private Tour for Kids

Kid-friendly museum tours are a must if you want your smaller children to soak up the artistic culture of Paris. It’s just a more enjoyable, fun experience for everyone!

This private Orsay Museum Tour for Kids can be as short as 90 minutes or as long as three hours, whatever works for your family.

Explore this beautiful Beaux Arts former railway station and the best of French art from the turn of the 20th century in this stimulating, skip-the-line experience.

Paris Biking Tours

Paris fat tire tours.

Avoid climbing up and down the steps of metro stations and walking until your feet blister. Hop on a Paris Day Bike Tour run by Fat Tire Tours and experience Paris by bike! This guided tour is the perfect activity for the first day of your vacation as you can get acquainted with the city.

The 3.5-hour tour is perfect for the whole family. There are a lot of options for kids of all ages including tandem bikes, trailers, and baby seats. See all of the top attractions in Paris and on the morning tour, and you will have a break for lunch near Tuileries Gardens.

Versailles Bike Tour

There’s so much to see in the beautiful town of Versailles beyond the famous royal palace! Fat Tire Tours’s 8.5-hour Versailles Bike Tour ensures round-trip transportation from Paris, a guided tour of the grounds, visits to Marie Antoinette’s private villa, timed entrance to Versailles Palace, and so much more.

It offers all the flexible bike options the Paris day tour offers so everyone can enjoy a family-friendly adventure cycling around Versailles.

Paris at Night Tours

Paris free night walking tour.

If you arrive in Paris late in the afternoon, don’t waste your first evening! Join Free Walking Tours’s two-hour Paris Free Night Walking Tour and get to know the City of Lights on a tip-based tour with an enthusiastic, expert guide.

This two-hour tour starts at the Tulleries metro station. Stops include Avenue des Champs Elysées, Arc de Triomphe, several churches, Alexander III Bridge, and a view of the Eiffel Tower.

Paris Seine Dinner Cruise with Live Music

If you’re traveling with older kids, they will love the novelty of eating dinner on a boat! We like this 2.5-hour Seine River Sightseeing Dinner Cruise with live music will be such a special treat.

You will be served a three or four-course meal as you sail past the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and other notable landmarks along the Seine’s UNESCO-certified banks.

Paris Open Top Bus Night Tour

One of the best nighttime Paris tours for families with small kids is this Paris Open Top Bus Tour . It’s only a 90-minute tour, which is ideal for early bedtimes, and you can listen to an audio guide as you drive around the city.

Best Paris Food Tours and Classes

Macaron making class.

Take a break from walking around the city and make a quintessential French treat! This two-hour Macaron Making Class by Get Your Guide includes a demonstration, baking your own macarons, a tea break, and a to-go box of your own bakes so you can eat them later.

Even better, you get the recipe so you can (attempt to) bake at home too. Note that it’s only for children ages 12 and above.

La Cuisine Paris Food Tour

While La Cuisine is known for its cooking, baking, and patisserie classes, it also runs several small-group Paris Food Tours that are perfect for families with children aged 13 and older.

Learn about the history of French cuisine from an expert guide and taste lots of delicious local treats depending on the two-hour tour you choose.

Explore the neighborhoods of Marais or Les Halles or join their Pastry & Chocolate or Morning Market food tours. Whichever you choose, you will be able to sample delicious cheeses, breads, desserts, meats, pastries, and so much more! Arrive starving.

Paris by Mouth Food Tour

Paris by Mouth has been rated the number 1 food tour in Paris by TripAdvisor for many years, so you should have high expectations!

They run several small-group, three-hour Paris Food Tours in several neighborhoods and allow kids as young as 10 to join.

They run tours in the East Saint-Germain, West Saint-Germain, North Marais, South Marais, and the Left Bank neighborhoods as well as one called French Cheese Explosion. The only tour that isn’t quite kid-friendly is their French Wine Discovery tour!

Paris Market Tour for Kids

France is known for its colorful food markets overflowing with seasonal produce, so this is one of the top Paris tours for families you can’t miss. Context Travel’s two-hour, private Paris Family Food Tour will show you around Marché d’Aligre, Marché Beauvau, and Marché d’Aligre.

The entire family will learn about the staples of French cuisine and taste fresh cheeses, charcuterie, and pastries.

French Bakery Behind-the-Scenes

Peaking behind the curtain of a French bakery is an experience so few get to have! With this two-hour, small-group Paris Bakery Behind-the-Scenes and Baking experience, you and your kids will be able to bake in a real, working Parisian bakery. Babies and infants can join, but school-age kids will get more out of this opportunity.

Enjoy a French breakfast, learn how a bakery operates, and even bake your very own baguette.

Paris Chocolate Tours and Classes

Paris chocolate and pastry tour.

Delectable sweet treats are a vital part of French culture and one that visitors of all ages can enjoy! Munch on the best Parisian meringues, crêpes, éclairs, macarons, hot or iced cocoa, ice cream, or pastries on this award-winning, two-hour, small group Chocolate & Pastries Tour . There is also a freshly-baked, surprise dish to look forward to!

Paris Sweets Family Tour and Treasure Hunt

Take your younger children on a treasure hunt for tasty treats through the lively Saint-Germain-des Prés neighborhood. The Sweet & Chocolate Family Treasure Hunt is one of the best Paris tours for families. You get a kid-friendly, private tour guide and at least seven sweet/chocolate tastings!

Paris Chocolate Making Workshop

Don’t just eat the chocolate, learn how to make it in a fun, 45-minute class at the Choco Story Museum in Paris. Book this Chocolate Making Workshop for your children aged seven and up and leave the class with your own chocolate bar that you get to decorate.

There are opportunities to taste other chocolates and entrance to the Choco-Story Museum is also included.

Day Tours From Paris

Paris day tour to normandy.

If your older children are studying World War II, or you would like them to learn more, then take a day trip to Normandy. It’s one of the best places to find out about this significant part of American and French history. This small-group Normandy Day Tour is a comprehensive, 12-hour tour hitting all the top sites.

You will visit the D-day landing beaches of Omaha, the Overlord Museum, and the Normandy American Cemetery. Pointe du Hoc and Longues-sur-Mer Battery, the locations of German bunkers and gun batteries, are also part of the tour, and skip-the-line tickets are included.

Paris to Giverny Day Tour

Giverny is a great Paris day trip for the whole family if you have less time. It’s only a one-hour drive from Paris so it’s doable with young children.

Book this half-day, small-group Giverny Day Trip to escape the city and visit beautiful gardens and villages in the French countryside.

On this tour, you visit the estate of impressionist painter Monet and his Water Garden. Witness the inspiration behind his famous waterlily paintings first-hand! There is the opportunity to stroll around Giverny village and visit Claude Monet’s tomb too.

Mont St. Michel from Paris Day Tour

Although this magical location is a four-hour drive from Paris, you will have no problems convincing your kids to visit a real fairytale castle! We love this small-group Mont St. Michel Full Day Trip , where you won’t have to worry about driving, navigating, or waiting in line for a ticket. Entrance fees, audio guides, and lots of free time are included!

Mont. St Michel is a tidal island and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Normandy with an incredibly picturesque village and cathedral sitting at the top of the hill. It needs to be seen to be believed and there’s no way your kids won’t love visiting this unique place.

Disneyland Paris Ticket and Transfers

It’s not surprising that Disneyland Paris is a popular day trip for families! But tickets for the theme park and shuttle buses during peak seasons can sell out. If you have little kids, navigating the metro public transportation can also be a pain. Opting for this private Disneyland Paris Entry Ticket and Transfer could be a better option.

You can explore the amusement parks at your own pace and get picked up and dropped off at your hotel at a time that’s convenient.

Book the Best Paris Tours for Families on Your Trip

There are plenty of family-friendly, expert guides who take care of everything so everyone can enjoy your family vacation. You don’t have to spend hours and hours researching!

Whether you want to fill your time learning how to make macarons and pain au chocolat in cooking classes or hire a private guide for full-day trips, everyone will enjoy these Paris tours for families.

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Students, some barely adolescent and some well into adulthood, come from all over the world to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

They study with nearly monastic focus, with the numbers and skill to operate as a world-class orchestra and opera company.

But they’re still young people growing up, experiencing triumphs and struggles for the first time, just in an extraordinary environment.

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At This School, the Students Live Entirely for Music

For a year, we followed five Curtis Institute of Music students as they made friends, pushed their artistry and stared down an uncertain future.

Photographs by James Estrin

Text by Joshua Barone

Reporting from Philadelphia

Delfin Demiray had packed too much. She was leaving her home in Ankara, Turkey, for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. An 18-year-old who had never been to the United States, she didn’t know what to expect.

As she prepared for her flight in August, loading her suitcases with clothes and books, she was still surprised at the turn her life had taken. Demiray had played piano since she was 8, and had a gift for reproducing music she heard on TV at the keyboard; she also liked to improvise with friends and write melodies of her own. But she didn’t think of herself as a composer until a year ago, when she applied to Curtis and, to her shock, was accepted.

Her move to the United States would make her parents empty-nesters, but she tried not to think too much about the sadness of saying goodbye. “It’s just how life is,” said Demiray, now 19. “I feel like they are living their dreams through me.”

Her story is not so rare at Curtis, an extremely selective, tuition-free school whose roughly 150 students come from around the world to study with almost monastic focus. Even among conservatories, it is exceptional, with a wide age range — from preadolescence to post-baccalaureate adulthood — and a personalized approach, of schedules and repertoire, for musicians who live almost entirely for their art.

“We know what it feels like to have to go to bed early on a Saturday night because you have to wake up Sunday morning for a lesson,” said Dillon Scott , a viola student, “and we all know what it feels like to have a performance that was objectively good, but still could’ve been better.”

Some of the students are already professionals who perform outside school, as well as on the campus of Curtis, which maintains a full orchestra, an opera program and chamber music groups. Many of the musicians form friendships that lead to collaborations that endure throughout their careers. The list of alumni reads like a musical hall of fame, with titans like Leonard Bernstein and current stars like Lang Lang and Hilary Hahn.

During the 2023-24 year, The New York Times followed five students as they settled into new lives, pushed their artistry and planned as much as they could for an uncertain future.

A woman stands in front of a blue curtain with an orchestra behind her.

SCOTT, A 20-YEAR-OLD from Lansdale, Pa., about an hour away from Philadelphia, grew up determined to attend Curtis. He still feels a sense of awe as he walks into its main building, a historical mansion on Rittenhouse Square. “These four years are going to have the potential to be absolutely instrumental and life-changing,” he said. “But it’s not going to be dropped on my lap.”

Few students, even few professionals, behave like Scott. His mind is a fire hose of ambition and enterprising passion. He approaches music critically, wondering how he can use Curtis’s resources to unearth the works of overlooked, often Black, composers and bring it to audiences beyond the tired demographics of classical music.

Having already spent countless hours in the library assembling a list of about 25 composers, noting all their works and locating their scores, Scott programmed a series of on- and off-campus concerts for the fall, accompanied by talks, and brought 14 other students on board. At community performances, he smiled at the sight of security and staff from school who had come with their families, and at how visibly different the audience looked from a typical Curtis performance.

Busy with concerts, too, was a 25-year-old French soprano named Juliette Tacchino . She started the fall semester staring down her final year and auditions, but other singing opportunities quickly arose as other singers dropped out of performances. On one program, she sang the role of Sophie in a scene from “Der Rosenkavalier” under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, who teaches at Curtis.

The experience was double-edged. Tacchino, a sensitive wellspring of calm, was also occupied with being a resident coordinator at Lenfest Hall, where she took care of younger students and organized events like a trip to an animal shelter and a screening of “Maestro.” But Tacchino missed the movie because she had the flu. She had already been feeling under the weather as the stress of her added work was taking its toll, and the flu made things worse. She lost her voice several times, and even when she did get a break, visiting her boyfriend in Montreal over Thanksgiving, she was preparing for auditions.

One of Nézet-Séguin’s students was Micah Gleason , 28, an easygoing yet fiercely skilled conductor and singer, also in her final year. She lived off-campus with her partner, in an apartment outfitted with a school-provided piano, a mirror for watching herself conduct and equipment for her side gig as a photographer.

Gleason conducting and singing in Berio’s ‘Folk Songs’

Like Scott, Gleason thinks about how to push beyond the conventions of performance. For a fall concert in which she was both conducting and singing Berio’s “Folk Songs,” she brought in a lighting designer and tried to hire a movement director. (There, she was less successful.) In her free time, she started emailing people she knew to line up work after Curtis.

In the orchestra for that concert was the 17-year-old flute student Julin Cheung . He had been at Curtis since he was middle-school age, and because he was a minor, he lived with his parents, originally from Hong Kong and Kazakhstan, on Rittenhouse Square. They had moved to Philadelphia for his education from Seattle, where they still traveled during school breaks to visit family.

Cheung, an only child with a mature sensibility and wry humor, is both independent and still very much a teenager. He has friends at Curtis but often eats dinner with his parents at their apartment. His mother helps with some of the logistics of his musical life, but otherwise he manages his own time, finding the space to work on his home-school education. During the school year, he also took German lessons because the language might come in handy when he finishes at Curtis in 2025; he would like to continue his studies in Europe.

Cheung in Jolivet’s ‘Chant de Linos’

In student housing, Demiray was quickly making new friends. She was closest with her roommate, a horn player. They would gather on staircases at Lenfest with other students to sing choral music for fun. After attending a party during her first week, she joined a group to organize one of her own, a masquerade for the holidays.

During the semester, she also finished a string quartet that she had started on the flight from Turkey. As she rehearsed it, she realized how open she was to her music changing in the hands of others; it was the kind of lesson that can’t really be taught in the classroom. “It reminded me,” she said, “that everything we have in music is a matter of perspective.”

FEW CURTIS STUDENTS truly take time off during the month between semesters. Demiray, back in Ankara, read Kant and watched movies, but also continued to compose. Gleason, getting an early start on spring work, took on a conducting project at Dallas Opera. Cheung, at least, made room for catching up with friends and family in Seattle, and skiing.

Scott had a difficult time winding down from the fall semester, which he found excitingly intense; life at home, he said, was like “a vacuum.” At first, he didn’t sleep well because he felt as though he should be doing something. After a few days, he felt himself relax as he took his dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback called Nandi, for long walks.

Tacchino went home to France, but as a resident coordinator, had to return early to prepare Lenfest for the spring semester. She had also picked up a tour in Florida, where she had never been. She saw more alligators than she would have liked, and it was unpleasantly hot, but she felt refreshed when she got back to school for more auditions and a starring role in Poulenc’s one-act opera “Les Mamelles de Tirésias.”

She had long been looking forward to that; her father, who had recently died, knew Poulenc. Tacchino grew up hearing about the composer, and listening to his music, including four-hands piano works that her parents would play. To her, the opera sounded like home.

IN THE NEW SEMESTER, Cheung went on tour with other Curtis musicians. He liked the independence of it, which felt like a taste of professional life, for better or worse: Not having to worry about school, he could focus on music, even with a hectic schedule. One concert in Florida ended around 10 p.m.; he and his fellow students got back to their hotel at 11, fell asleep around midnight, and were ready to board a shuttle at 4:50 a.m. to catch a flight to Dallas. But during downtime, they would go to a beach, or when the weather was bad, play cards in their hotel rooms.

After an entrepreneurial fall, Scott shifted his attention to technique. He had been gently directed to do so by his teachers, who include Curtis’s president, Roberto Díaz. Scott believed, he said, that “the better I can play the viola, the more credibility I’m going to have to advocate for the things I want to do.”

Scott playing George Walker’s Viola Sonata

He also relaxed a little by reading at night, taking up the Ray Bradbury stories he had loved as a child. In practice rooms, though, he was hard at work on a Bach suite and George Walker’s Viola Sonata, from 1989. He reached out to Walker’s son, and tracked down the violist who had first recorded the piece and a scholar who had written about it. Scott repeatedly returned to the score to mark it up; he thought about what story Walker was trying to tell with the music. The school decided to record his performance, and asked Scott to bring it back for a new-music concert next year.

THE WEEK BEFORE “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” opened, Tacchino tested positive for Covid-19. After months of unreliable health, and audition after audition, she was feeling overwhelmed. She was frustrated by the mixed messages she seemed to be receiving: that she was so young, that she was starting to get old, that she sounded great, that she wasn’t quite right for something. A comment by the tenor Matthew Polenzani, who gave a talk at the school, resonated with her: “He said, ‘There are days when you’re going to have the most incredible audition of your life, and you’re not going to get anything, and another day, you’re going to sing the crappiest audition of your life and get four gigs.”

Tacchino in ‘Les Mamelles de Tirésias’

Tacchino’s optimism held alongside her determination. She recovered in time for the Poulenc premiere, and decided to stay at Curtis an extra year, to perform in its centennial celebrations. In addition, she got into a young artist program in Paris, L’Atelier Lyrique , where she would work with the conductor David Stern.

Gleason’s persistence paid off, too. Because of her emails, she spent part of the spring semester working at the Juilliard School in New York on a production of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.” She signed with a manager, Intermusica , and continued to apply for conducting jobs. She and her partner decided that after graduation, they wanted to move to Chicago, where they used to live.

An excerpt from Demirary’s ‘Krizantem’

At a concert to showcase the work of composing students, Demiray presented her first piece for orchestra. She was the youngest on the program, and the evening was such a blur, she didn’t remember most of what she saw on video later. In the moment, she said, it felt like something simply happened and was over, but with some distance, she started to recognize how much progress was reflected in those 15 minutes.

TACCHINO HAD ONE more starring role left: the title fox in the Curtis production of Janacek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen.” It was yet another gig she had picked up after someone else dropped it, and it required her learning the material within a month. “But,” she said, “I feel like so many careers started out like that. It’s exciting.”

She received enthusiastic applause at the first performance, but the relief barely registered because after the run she would still have to present her master’s project. (The night of her final bows, she stayed up until 2 a.m. working on it.) Then she was done with the semester, though she had to stick around, in her other role, as resident coordinator. Comfortable with the year she’d had, she left to see her boyfriend in Montreal.

On the eve of graduation, Gleason presented a workshop performance of a chamber opera she was developing with Joanne Evans, a former classmate from Bard College and her duo partner. With the move to Chicago, she wasn’t sure whether she would walk at the graduation ceremony, but she was able to make it. “You only go to Curtis once,” she said.

Cheung played in Gleason’s workshop, before leaving Philadelphia to spend time in Seattle and audition for a piccolo seat at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As a 17-year-old with a year of Curtis left, he wasn’t expecting much, but after two days, he was offered the job. “It’s an amazing opportunity,” he said, “but there’s a lot to be considered.”

It will be complicated, for example, if the orchestra wants him to start immediately, while he still has school (not to mention high school) to finish. If he could wait, he would take the position for a gap year he already had planned. But as he looked forward to the rest of the summer, including a program at the idyllic Verbier Festival in Switzerland, he wasn’t sure what would happen.

Scott landed a place at Verbier as well, in a different program. At the end of the semester, he took account of the year and congratulated himself on tripling his social media followers, playing the pieces he wanted to play and even starting to compose music of his own. He was already thinking about ideas for the next year, and the year after that.

As Demiray packed up her room, she felt sad to be leaving her new friends. At times, she had spent 24 hours straight with these people, experiencing things for the first time together. Back in Turkey, she was happy to see her parents, to have time to swim and to compose without a schedule. But she was also, in a way that surprised her, excited for the return of fall.

“Now,” she said, “I feel like I have two families.”

James Estrin is a photographer and writer who has been with The Times since 1992. More about James Estrin

Joshua Barone is the assistant classical music and dance editor on the Culture Desk and a contributing classical music critic. More about Joshua Barone

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From ‘The Crown’ to ‘Franklin,’ How France Has Become TV’s New Sought-After Backdrop

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France has never had trouble getting people to fall in love with its many pleasures: the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, and the island majesty of Mont Saint-Michel. It sells itself, which is probably why it is such a sought-after backdrop for television series.

But in the last year, France has been shown even more love than usual, as more than half a dozen shows, all vying for Emmy attention this season, explored the country through the ages. And no, this wasn’t some elaborate promotion for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

“Mary & George”

While much of Starz’s lusty lesson in palace intrigue takes place in England, the series begins with a pivotal trip to the French countryside in 1612. A teenage George (Nicholas Galitzine) is sent away by his calculating mother Mary (Julianne Moore) to be trained in the ways of etiquette and royalty, as a means of weaseling their family’s way into a place of importance among the court of King James I (Tony Curran). This is a fateful encounter with France’s amorous legacy for George, as he is educated in the quietly accepted sexual fluidity of the time. In the embrace of aristocrats, his first taste of experimenting with men is intoxicating, not just for the pleasure but for the power it can offer him in James’ bed. The landmark staples of France may not make an appearance on his trip, but the aura of the country offers him something home just couldn’t — the freedom to find himself.

“Franklin”

“all the light we cannot see”.

The first of the three World War II series to feature France during one of its darkest chapters is largely confined to the walled city of Saint-Malo, which became the battleground for a 1944 months-long fight between the Allies and Germany. Netflix’s adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s novel, which was shot in the city, features breathtaking views of the fortress and some idea of the occupied world of its main character, Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind French girl who broadcasts secret messages for the French resistance.

“We Were the Lucky Ones”

Hulu’s World War II entry this season hops all over Europe as it charts the miraculous journey and survival of the Kurc family, who lived in Poland at the start of the war. In early episodes of the series, Addy (Logan Lerman), one of the family’s male siblings, is living in Paris working as an aspiring musician. He is celebrating his first radio hit when war breaks out and news of his scattered family trickles in. With the threat of German forces pushing into the country, Addy tries desperately to flee the City of Love as so many real Parisians did. While the French days of the series are frontloaded, Addy’s story is a great reminder of the cultural scene in Paris that was disrupted but not silenced by war. Speaking of…

“The New Look”

The fashion giants of Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) have very different World War II experiences in Apple TV+’s tale of the cost of creativity in the midst of war. The series’s exploration of Chanel’s ties to the Nazis during the war received plenty of press as episodes rolled out earlier this year. But the real spectacle is creator Todd A. Kessler’s focus on what happened after the war was over, as the residents of a wounded France came to terms with the scope of its loss. As traumatized and emaciated people got off trains to meet their families, the long-term effects of war began to sink in, and it defined the next decades of recovery for cities like Paris. It also fueled creative stories of people like Dior, who found beauty and innovation in the aftermath.

“The Crown”

A trip to France was inevitable for Netflix’s seminal portrait of the royal family during its sixth season. The series’s final episodes rely heavily on the last days of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki), following her with an almost voyeuristic intent of understanding who she was at the end. The photorealistic recreation starts out with Diana’s infamous 1997 holiday in Saint-Tropez with her sons, where she was photographed sitting lonely on the end of a diving board on the stern of a yacht. The media firestorm surrounding her over the last two months of her life turned the world’s attention to Paris, where she was killed in a car accident, which punctuated the first part of show’s swan-song season.

“The Veil”

“the walking dead: daryl dixon”.

The first spinoff in “The Walking Dead” universe isn’t likely to inspire any tourism campaigns for France. Having managed to survive the flagship series, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) finds himself washed ashore in France, the patient-zero country for the zombie apocalypse that single-handedly revolutionized the genre on television. But in its dystopian future, “Daryl Dixon” actually pays France quite a compliment. Perhaps more than any show on the list, this one revels in every chance to show off the hallmarks of France and remind viewers why they are sturdy enough to survive the apocalypse. From the island-bound abbey at Mont Saint-Michel to the Place du Panthéon in Paris’ Latin Quarter, the road-trip series imaginatively dresses the country for destruction.

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19 Best Songs About Paris That Will Make You Feel Closer To The City of Love

Famous Songs About Paris

1. J’ai Deux Amours by Josephine Baker

2. La Vie En Rose by Édith Piaf

3. I Love Paris by Cole Porter/Ella Fitzgerald

4. Bonjour, Paris! By Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson

5. April in Paris by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

6. Non, Je ne regrette rien by Édith Piaf

7. Les Champs-Elysée by Joe Dassin

8. Where Do You Go to (My Lovely) By Peter Sarstedt

9. Paris by Faith Hill

10. Crazy Paris by Horny United

11. Paris (Ooh La La) By Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

12. La Seine by Vanessa Paradi & M

13. Paris by Lana Del Ray

14. Paris by Little Dragon

15. Little French Song by Carla Bruni

16. Paris by Night by Bénabar

17. Paname by Slimane

18. Paris by Sabrina Carpenter

19. Bienvenue Chez Moi by Bigflo & Oli

Final Thoughts on the Best Parisian Songs

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36 Songs About Paris That Will Bring You There Instantly

Best Parisian songs

Songs about Paris in English

1. Eartha Kitt – Under the Bridges of Paris (1955)

2. Little Dragon – Paris (2014)

3. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – April in Paris (1957)

4. The Stranglers – Let’s Tango in Paris (1972)

5. Faith Hill – Paris (2005)

6. Carla Bruni – Little French Song (2013)

7. Jonathan Richman – Give Paris One More Chance (1983)

8. Ella Fitzgerald – I love Paris (1953)

9. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris (2011)

10. Fred Astaire – Paris Loves Lovers (1955)

11. Elliott Smith – Place Pigalle

12. Doris Day – The River Seine (1950)

13. Lana Del Rey – Take Me to Paris (2012)

14. St. Vincent – Paris is Burning (2007)

15. Florent Pagny – Chatelet Les Halles

16. Grace Potter And The Nocturnals – Paris (Ooh La La) (2010)

17. Sabrina Carpenter – Paris (2018)

18. Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, And Kay Thompson – Bonjour, Paris! (1957)

French songs about Paris

19. Edith Piaf – Sous le Ciel de Paris (1951)

20. Maurice Chevalier – Paris je t’aime d’amour (1930)

21. Booba – Paname (2011)

22. Charles Trenet – Les Oiseaux De Paris (1939)

23. Léo Marjane – Sur les Pavés de Paris

24. Charles Aznavour – La Bohême (1965)

25. Louise Attaque – Les Nuits Parisiennes (1997)

26. Jacques Brel – Les Prénoms de Paris (1962)

27. Joe Dassin – Champs Elysées (1969)

28. Yves Montand – A Paris (1948)

29. Josephine Baker – J’ai Deux Amours (1930)

30. Vanessa Paradis & Matthieu Chedid – La Seine (2011)

31. Maurice Chevalier – Ca c’est Paris

32. Claude Nougaro – Paris Mai (1968)

33. Édith Piaf – Les Amants de Paris (1948)

34. Mireille Mathieu – Paris en Colère (1966)

35. Bénabar – Paris by Night (2014)

36. Jacques Dutronc – Paris s’éveille (1968)

Songs about Paris – Final thoughts

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The 20 best songs about Paris

Best songs about Paris

20. ‘La Bohème’ – Charles Aznavour

19. ‘Give Paris One More Chance’ – Jonathan Richman

18. ‘Paris Sous les Bombes’ – Suprême NTM

20. ‘La Bohème’ – Charles Aznavour 