In Paris, these erotic and cultural visits turn up the heat in Paris

What if the real Paris isn't hidden in its museums, but in its fantasms? With its erotic and cultural visits, Miss Parisette explores a far less wholesome capital than we're used to. Between history, desire and spine-tingling anecdotes, a walk that will make you rethink the City of Light.

Paris, the city of love? Yes, but not just the postcard version. Behind the wrought-iron balconies and perfectly aligned cafés, the capital has long been a playground for pleasures, the forbidden and double lives. With her erotic visit, Miss Parisette offers to scratch away the varnish and tell another story: one of desire, omnipresent, codified, sometimes hidden, but always deeply Parisian. And spoiler alert: you'll never look at the same streets the same way again.

Starting point: Place Saint-Georges

The visit begins at Place Saint-Georges. Elegant, almost too refined, this is where one of the most powerful courtesans of the 19th century once lived: Paul Gauguin's Païva. The perfect embodiment of a Paris where power, money and desire intertwine. From the very first minutes, the tone is set: behind every facade lies a less than flattering story. Miss Parisette then unveils another map of the capital, made of confidential addresses, coded pleasures and age-old tales kept in the dark.

Pigalle, collective phantoms and historical reality

Next stop, Pigalle. Not just the neon lights a little weary, but the place that still makes all of Paris vibrate. Here, Miss Parisette strips away the clichés to tell the story of a district that has long been at the heart of Parisian nightlife and freedom. We walk in the shadow of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, an unavoidable figure of the neighborhood, but also of emblematic places like the Divan du Monde and La Nouvelle Ève.

Just a few steps away stands the very discreet Villa Frochot, inaccessible to the public, which was home to one of the capital's first Asian cabarets starting in 1910.

A little further down a street where sensual evenings were held-sometimes degenerating into innocent literary gatherings attended by Charles Baudelaire or Alexandre Dumas. Another key spot: the Chat Noir, often considered one of the first places where homosexuality could be evoked more freely in artistic Paris.

Private houses, glamour and trouble

Without a doubt, the most fascinating part of the tour. Parisian private houses, far from the public eye, were a little rougher than one might imagine, true institutions, often luxurious, frequented by the elite. Miss Parisette tells the story of these places like film sets: scenographies, rituals, hierarchy... yet never forgetting the underside of the decor. Because behind the fantasy, there's also a much more complex social reality.

Throughout the tour, we discover for example that one of the first brothels dedicated to BDSM practices was located at 9 rue Mazarin, in a neo-Gothic setting, and attracted a clientele carefully selected. A place that has since disappeared, but whose story continues to fascinate. All the more so as it once stood across from today's Hôtel Amour.

Eroticism, everywhere (even where you least expect it)

Engravings, architectural details, symbols hidden in artworks... The tour shows just how widespread eroticism is in Paris, often right where you least expect it. We also discover a whole parallel literature: the Guide rose, a true little black book of pleasure addresses, the Catalogues des prix d'amour detailing practices and their prices, or even the famous Guide des plaisirs. An underground culture, coded, almost administrative.