Visit: Macabre Paris - Paris, France guided by Ana Gómez Bouydron - find your guided tours on My Licensed Guide

Discover the Dark Side of Paris

Crimes and legends

A strall through the city center

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Paris in known as the City of light but the majestic buildings, monuments, bridges and streets hide a darker past than we think. They have seen their share of blood and horror throughout the centuries.

French Renaissance writer Rabelais wrote in 1532 that “Paris is a good place to live but a bad place to die” (“Pantagruel”, Chapter VII).

In the heart of Paris, Discover the city as you never imagined it and learn about its macabre history.

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Itinerary

Because Good often triumphs over Evil and Paris has managed to stay afloat through her two millennia of history, the tour starts at the Saint-Michel fountain.
We will cross the river onto the Ile de la Cité where you will learn about the mysteries of Notre Dame’s cathedral, the French Sweeney Todd, Marie Antoinette’s final moments and the end of the Templars, amongst other stories.

We will then cross the Pont Neuf to return to mainland Paris to learn about the Protestant massacre of the 16th century. The tour will take you the area of les Halles, where prophecies will be revealed, young men lost their heads for a beautiful woman and thousands of corpses and skeletons where transferred out of their graves to the Catacombs.

This tour will reveal some of the darker stories of Paris’ past: murders, tortures, executions, prophecies from the middle ages to modern France to the 19th century.

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This tour is not suitable for young children, but teenagers are usually quite fond of it.

Can be done in the evening or at night.

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Location

Paris, France

Ana

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Bercée par la culture française et espagnole, j’ai vécu en Espagne et en Angleterre avant de m’installer dans l’est parisien. J’ai fait des études d’histoire et d’archéologie. Je suis une grande passionnée d’art, de voyages et de musique. J’adore également dénicher les trésors dans les friperies et les bouquinistes, les marchés parisiens, les promenades et pique-niques sur les quais de Seine ou le Canal Saint-Martin, me perdre dans les chemins du Père Lachaise.

Bref, j’adore partager les secrets, histoires et lieux qui m’ont fait tomber amoureuse de la Ville Lumière.

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