If, since 2017, the address no longer houses the offices of the Parisian judicial police, 36 quai des orfèvres remains emblematic of the great French judicial cases.
If, since 2017, the address no longer houses the offices of the Parisian judicial police, 36 quai des orfèvres remains emblematic of the great French judicial cases.
The offices of the criminal investigation department were set up 36 quai des orfèvres in 1913, more than a century after its installation by Jules Ferry. The premises were often associated with major French criminal cases such as that of Jacques Mesrine or Guy Georges.
The building was constructed between 1875 and 1880 on the site of the former hotel of the first president of the Paris Court of Appeal. It was rehabilitated after its destruction on May 24, 1871, during the Commune, in particular for the courthouse. It was in one of its wings that the offices of the PJ were set up.
The café of Amélie, the mansion of Untouchables, the jazz club of the finale of La La Land, the Hôtel du Nord of the mythical replica of Arletty “Atmosphere”, the cinema of A bout de souffle, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the quays of the Seine of Midnight in Paris, the secret places of the Da Vinci Code, the grocery store of January in La Traversée de Paris , the Bridge of Inception and Peur sur la ville, the addresses of the spectacular scenes of Mission Impossible 6, but also series Call my agent, Gears, Le Bureau des légendes, Sense8, Sex and The City, Gossip Girl…
Etienne Daho’s Café de Flore, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hotel in Nas in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg’s Poinçonneur des Lilas metro station, Serge Reggiani and Marc Lavoine’s Mirabeau Bridge, Mc Solaar’s Lyon station…
The places evoked in the comics Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch, Blake and Mortimer, Michel Vaillant…
But also in the novels of Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leo Malet, Daniel Pennac, Marc Levy, Guillaume Musso… you’ll find all the must-see places of Parisian Pop Culture in this new guide.
