Radiating out from rue du Faubourg Montmartre, this bustling shopping district features several of Paris’s typical covered arcades – Passage Jouffroy, Passage Verdeau and Passage des Panoramas – worth exploring if you’re looking for something a bit different. Cafes and restaurants are plentiful too, including the Bouillon Chartier, dating from the 19th century. The district is home to Paris’s wax museum, the Musée Grévin; the headquarters of the Grand Orient de France and Museum of Freemasonry; the Drouot auction rooms; the 9th arrondissement’s city hall (in an 18th-century town house) and the quiet residential streets of the Cité Bergère and Cité de Trévise. It also has a vibrant night life, with numerous bars, cabarets, theatres and cinemas, including the Folies Bergère, the Palace, the Variétés, Nouveautés and Trévise theatres, and the Max Linder and Grand Rex cinemas.
