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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 60 performing arts venues
Best performing arts venues in Paris
The 10 most notable performing arts venues in Paris, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Cours Florent
37/39 Av. Jean Jaurès
298 m from Jaurès, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.203, percentile 100 of 60
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2
School Claude Mathieu
3 Rue de l'Olive
105 m from Marx Dormoy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.202, percentile 98.31 of 60
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3
La Manufacture Chanson
124 Av. de la République
143 m from Père Lachaise, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.201, percentile 96.61 of 60
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4
La Fabrique de Talents
46-48 Av. Henri Ginoux
258 m from Mairie de Montrouge, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.200, percentile 94.92 of 60
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5
La Fémis
6 Rue Francœur
293 m from Lamarck – Caulaincourt, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.199, percentile 93.22 of 60
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6
Octave Et Arpège
4 Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg
139 m from Messageries de la gare Saint-Lazare, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.193, percentile 91.53 of 60
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7
École de théâtre l'Éponyme
2 Bis Pass. Ruelle
262 m from La Chapelle, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.192, percentile 89.83 of 60
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8
Théâtre Stéphane Gildas
16 Rue de Tolbiac
146 m from Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.191, percentile 88.14 of 60
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9
Conservatoire Maurice Ravel
33 Rue Gabriel Péri
161 m from Anatole France, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.183, percentile 86.44 of 60
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10
Le Studio-Théâtre
3 Rue Edmond Fantin
649 m from Gabriel Péri, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.137, percentile 84.75 of 60
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).