Paris, ouvert la nuit: the city after dark, 1900–1970, at Galerie Roger-Viollet
Seventy photos of Paris at night between 1900 and 1970, on rue de Seine. Cabaret neon, cinema signs, wet cobblestones. Free.
in short 11 June – 3 October 2026 · Galerie Roger-Viollet, 6 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris · Free
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Photo · Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
Galerie Roger-Viollet has pulled seventy prints from its archives for Paris, ouvert la nuit (Paris, open at night): the city after dark, between 1900 and 1970. Almost all of it in black and white.
You come across the cabaret Le Chat Noir on boulevard de Clichy in 1935, the neon of the Berlitz cinema announcing Les Diaboliques in 1955, a Casino de Paris revue shot from the ceiling in 1937, and the Eiffel Tower lit up by Citroën in 1925.
Behind the camera: Gaston Paris, Pierre Jahan, René-Jacques, Maurice-Louis Branger, Jack Nisberg, Janine Niepce, François Kollar. Many of them were press photographers, and the night was their shift.
Entry is free, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–7pm, at 6 rue de Seine in Saint-Germain (6th arrondissement). Get off at Metro Odéon or Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The prints come in limited editions of 30, and the 90-page catalogue costs €15.
You have until 3 October.
