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Uh, what? Does Paris really have all that? ''[[GratuitousFrench Oh là là]]'', we thought Paris was the [[EiffelTowerEffect Eiffel Tower]], the Arc de Triomphe, and The Louvre (with its convenient supply of [[MacGuffin priceless]], [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece world-famous]] works of art) looming over bistros, cafés, art galleries and super-chic shops in Avenue des Champs-Élysées, {{Starving Artist}}s in the Latin Quarter, the romantic old bridges over the Seine River, the gaudy music shows at the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère, and stuff like street mimes on every corner, with accordion music playing in the background, and [[FrenchJerk snooty French people]] (the custom of men kissing each other on the cheek may be exploited for HoYay) smoking cigarettes and wearing berets, striped shirts and scarves while they carry around baguettes under their arms. And all the buildings are in the style of Haussmann's 19th century urban renewal, right?...

* NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation greatly parodies this. Clark makes the whole family wear berets, and in a following scene, they eat at an atypical cafe outdoors, [[http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/hXTe5GOYGz8/hqdefault.jpg with the nearby Eiffel Tower thrust right in your face]]. The waiter is so over-the-top rude too perhaps as a means of parodying the stereotype.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': A picturesque modern city, where events in the hospitality industry are apparently [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver considered front-page news]].
** And which is apparently, ahem, "''inspired''" by the ''Anatole'' book series.
** Fake cheese and wine, rows over ownership of recipes and chef's obituaries have all made Real Life headlines.

** In "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", Monk solved a murder in France just by reading a newspaper in the ''San Francisco Chronicle''.
** 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 character filibuster (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 [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] by yhe {{Cloudcuckoolander}} when the police are completely blase about a criminal plummeting to his death directly in front of them.

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

Uh, what? Does Paris really have all that? ''[[GratuitousFrench Oh là là]]'', we thought Paris was the [[EiffelTowerEffect Eiffel Tower]], the Arc de Triomphe, and The Louvre (with its convenient supply of [[MacGuffin priceless]], [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece world-famous]] works of art) looming over bistros, cafés, art galleries and super-chic shops in Avenue des Champs-Élysées, {{Starving Artist}}s in the Latin Quarter, the old bridges over the Seine River, and stuff like street mimes on every corner, with accordion music playing in the background, and [[FrenchJerk snooty French people]] (the custom of men kissing each other on the cheek may be exploited for HoYay) smoking cigarettes and wearing berets, striped shirts and scarves while they carry around baguettes under their arms. And all the buildings are in the style of Haussmann's 19th century urban renewal, right?...

Uh, what? Does Paris really have all that? ''[[GratuitousFrench Oh là là]]'', we thought Paris was the [[EiffelTowerEffect Eiffel Tower]], the Arc de Triomphe, and The Louvre (with its convenient supply of [[MacGuffin priceless]], [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece world-famous]] works of art) looming over bistros, cafés, art galleries and super-chic shops in Avenue des Champs-Élysées, {{Starving Artist}}s in the Latin Quarter, and stuff like street mimes on every corner, with accordion music playing in the background, and [[FrenchJerk snooty French people]] (the custom of men kissing each other on the cheek may be exploited for HoYay) smoking cigarettes and wearing berets, striped shirts and scarves while they carry around baguettes under their arms. And all the buildings are in the style of Haussmann's 19th century urban renewal, right?...

Uh, what? Does Paris really have all that? ''[[GratuitousFrench Oh là là]]'', we thought Paris was the [[EiffelTowerEffect Eiffel Tower]], the Arc de Triomphe, and The Louvre (with its convenient supply of [[MacGuffin priceless]], [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece world-famous]] works of art) looming over bistros, cafés, art galleries and super-chic shops in Avenue des Champs-Élysées, and stuff like street mimes on every corner, with accordion music playing in the background, and [[FrenchJerk snooty French people]] (the custom of men kissing each other on the cheek may be exploited for HoYay) smoking cigarettes and wearing berets, striped shirts and scarves while they carry around baguettes under their arms. And all the buildings are in the style of Haussmann's 19th century urban renewal, right?...

* ''{{Rayman}} Raving Rabbids'' and its sequel seem to have a lot of sections set in Paris--fitting since the developers are French.

* Lumiose City in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' is shaping up to be this, to go along with the Kalos region's general air of FantasyCounterpartCulture France. Comes complete with the ISO standard general architecture, an Eifel Tower, and sidewalk cafés. The very first official artwork of the city also includes baguettes, berets, snooty people, and oafish tourists.

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' Paris is under martial law [[CrapsackWorld like much of the world]], so its depiction is influenced by [[WorldWar wartime Paris of the past century]]. The Eiffel tower and other famous landmarks are [[CityNoir displayed rather gloomily]]. [[SmokingIsCool Everyone smokes]] and engages in deep discussions of culture, [[LaResistance politics]] and [[ThePhilosopher the human condition]], even in bars and discothequ

* ''{{Ratatouille}}'': A picturesque modern city, where events in the hospitality industry are apparently [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver considered front-page news]].

* Film/FrenchCancan. The entire film's about the ''creation'' of both the Moulin Rouge and its showcase dance.

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

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** 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 character filibuster (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 [[hottip:*: despite only ever seeing garbage from the 7th arrondissiment]]. [[ZigZaggingTrope Triple-subverted]] ([[{{Drama}} or was it?]]) with a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] by yhe {{Cloudcuckoolander}} when the police are completely blase about a criminal plummeting to his death directly in front of them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} in Paris'' is set in an especially stereotypical version of the place, yet ''also'' manages to invoke the FarEast stereotypes via musical numbers, a visit to a Japanese restaurant and a dream. Oh yeah, most of the action takes place in a Reptar theme park, so there's not as much Paris involved as the title would let you think. Yes, the Eiffel Tower is there, and so is the Arc de Triomphe, but not the Louvre. And Notre Dame, where [[spoiler:Chas (Chuckie's dad) and Coco LaBouche's soon-to-be-ruined wedding took place]]. One line even had Betty about to fall asleep and asking Didi to "wake her up if she sees the [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame hunchback]]". Betty and Didi even hang a lampshade on the general lack of French-ness in their trip, at least culinary-wise:

* In ''TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Sam's parents go on holiday to Paris. It is shown very briefly, but most of the requisite cliches (Arc du Triomphe, mimes, [[ForeignQueasine escargots]]) are in place.

* Music/DeanMartin's "The Poor People of Paris" plays with this by expressing mock-sympathy for the city's denizens:

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' where all the French monuments have become Chokie Chicken's.

* ''{{Engrenages}}'' has been described as a French version of ''Series/TheWire'', and features gritty police drama in some of Paris's poorest and grottiest neighbourhoods.