History Main / GayParee

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': Chef Louis is, well, Hollywood's idea of a French cook. His sequence is introduced with [[FrenchAccordion accordion music]] (which is a cliché that's always associated to Paris), he has a MauriceChevalierAccent, speaks about "[[GratuitousFrench Nouvelle Cuisine des Champs-Élysées]]" and even randomly name-drops Creator/MauriceChevalier. This is all AnachronismStew, because the film pretty clearly takes place in either the 18th century or in very early 19th century.

A place to HaveAGayOldTime. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith gaily paring (cutting, skinning) things, paring gays, or ''WesternAnimation/GayPuree''.

 A place to HaveAGayOldTime. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith gaily paring (cutting, skinning) things, or paring gays.

* ''Webcomic/{{Bandette}}'' is set in a UsefulNotes/NouvelleVague-meets-''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' fairyland Paris.

And also a nice city to host for {{peace conference}}s as evidenced by [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris the number of peace treaties]] signed there.

A place to HaveAGayOldTime. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith gaily paring (cutting, skinning) things, or paring gays.

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* Averted with the suburban Boulogne-Billancourt setting of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. While it is a suburb of Paris, the city landmarks are never seen. The one landmark that is seen (and actually seen at least OnceAnEpisode as it's central to the plot) is the abandoned Renault factory on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Seguin Île Seguin]] in the Seine that has since been torn down.

* ''Film/VictorVictoria'' is set in [[TheThirties 1930s]] Paris, and features a song called "Gay Paree" (which heavily lampshades the DoubleEntendre of the phrase).

* A few works by Creator/ErnestHemingway are set in [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] Paris, largely reflecting his experience. While somewhat reflecting the trope (bars and bistros and a generally "gay" lifestyle) he also makes apparent just how shallow the lives of Americans in Paris (many of whom he depicts as Type 2 {{Eagleland}}ers) can be. Particularly on display in ''Literature/TheSunAlsoRises'', wherein he contrasts Paris with Spain (particularly [[TorosYFlamenco Pamplona and the world of bullfighting]]).

* Since about the late [[TheEighties 1980s]], the proportion of French fictions set in the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue banlieues]]'' (many of them around Paris) has increased, notably in low-income housing zones with majorities of populations of non-European descent.

* Averted in both ''Film/MoulinRouge'' films. Both are set in the GayNineties; in the historically accurate 1952 film, the streets are filthy and smelly, muggings are common and prostitutes are frequently arrested. In the 2000s version, the beautiful Moulin Rouge contrasts with the reality of that era (that inner-Paris was a slum and drug and drink addicts line the streets).

** Partial subversion in the TieInNovel "Mr. Monk is Miserable", where Natalie expects to eat croissants and whatnot while enjoying the rustic splendor of the city. As soon as she sees the lights on the Eiffel Tower, and the [[FerrisWheelOfDoom Roue de Paris]], and the Arc de Triomphe merely because L'Arche de le Defense is visible from the top of it, she launches into a long CharacterFilibuster (with which [[AuthorFilibuster the author]] [[PoesLaw may or may not have agreed]]) about how commercialism and "doing things bigger" has ruined her beautiful city [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks from being the way it was twenty years ago on her honeymoon]]. [[DoubleSubverted Then]] she finds an enormous parisian flat with a personal cafe and a waterfall being run by a sewer [[strike: mutant]] vagrant (ItMakesSenseInContext) and repeatedly waxes poetically throughout the book about how Paris even has better garbage than San Francisco [[note]]despite only ever seeing garbage from the 7th arrondissiment[[/note]]. [[ZigZaggingTrope Triple-subverted]] ([[{{Drama}} or was it?]]) with a {{lampshade|Hanging}} by the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} when the police are completely blase about a criminal plummeting to his death directly in front of them.

* A lot of the imagery of Gay Paree is derived from 19th century painters, who made life there more colorful, like Creator/HenriDeToulouseLautrec's depictions of the Moulin Rouge cabaret, where the part-time dancers part-time harlots dance [[Music/TheCanCanSong cancan]].
* ''Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte'': At first glance the painting is a pretty, picturesque depiction of Paris, with well-off Parisians relaxing by the river. However, several other cues (most notably how most of them are bathed in shadow, and things that have been interpreted as allusions to prostitution) suggest it's less idyllic than it looks.

* Disagreeing with the Superhero Registration Act but not willing to fight his friends, [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] temporarily moved to Paris for most of ComicBook/CivilWar, only returning for the final battle.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': Tim Drake went to Paris for his first bit of training to become Robin with a martial arts master who wasn't a member of the Batfamily, went back for a weekend to spoil a League of Assassins plot alongside ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, returned to the city to train under another master located there about a year later and spent some time there early in his career as ComicBook/RedRobin.

Ah, {{UsefulNotes/Paris}}, one of the great cities of the world. With its wide, bustling boulevards, the beautiful Napoleonic architecture of the central ''[[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench arrondissements]]'', the rich, multicolored culture of the Arabs and Africans from the surrounding ''banlieues'', the fast-paced acrobats of LeParkour that hail from the southern suburb of Évry, the brilliant and captivating Oriental neighborhood of Olympiades, the iconic entrances and stations of UsefulNotes/LeMetropolitain and the shiny, futuristic skyline of the skyscrapers gathered around the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/9/96/Vue_globale_de_la_BNF1.jpg Bibliothèque nationale]] and [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Défense-parvis-pano.jpg La Défense]]...

* ''Film/AnAmericanInParis'' and ''Irma La Douce''.

* "The Last Time I Saw Paris," a song written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in 1940, is a eulogy for Paris as it existed before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* In the French film ''Film/LesMeilleures'', the views of Paris are not very picturesques outside of a shot on the Sacré Coeur basilica of Montmartre, and the story takes place in a low income district mostly inhabited by populations of non-European (mostly North African and Sub-Saharan) origin, which the protagonists are from.

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