Concierge suggestions May 24

As every month, find suggestions and advice from our concierges to enhance your stay at Le Narcisse Blanc.‍

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Events in Paris this month

The annual Saint Germain Jazz Festival

This year's Festival runs from May 13 to 20. The opening evening on May 13 will take place at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, with a special concert by the Stacey Kent Trio, accompanied by the Akilone String Quartet. Last November, the Francophile American singer released her fourteenth album, Summer me, winter me. For this concert, she will offer songs from this opus, as well as covers by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Michel Legrand, Jacques Brel and Richard Rogers. Exclusive to the Festival, Stacey Kent will be accompanied for the first time by the Akilone String Quartet. Winners of numerous international awards, these four talented young women offer elegant playing and a generous sound that will enhance Stacey Kent's trio.

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Night at the Museum

Don't miss the Nuit des Musées 2024! Now a not-to-be-missed springtime event, it's a chance to discover collections and temporary exhibitions in a whole new way. Many museums across France will be opening their doors free of charge from dusk until midnight.

For its 20th edition, the Nuit des Musées will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2024. From dusk until midnight, 3,000 museums across France and Europe will be offering a special program to help visitors discover or rediscover their rich collections.

From the Bourse de Commerce, to the Musée Picasso, the Maison de Victor Hugo, the Musée Curie and on to the Hôtel de la Marine, hundreds of establishments open their doors to you, allowing you to discover their collections in a new light.

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Rolland Garros

The Internationaux de France de tennis 2024 takes place from May 20 to June 9, 2024 at the Roland-Garros stadium in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. This is the 123rd edition of the Internationaux de France de tennis professional tennis tournament.

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Exhibitions of the month

The birth of department stores

From April 10 to October 13, 2024, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is devoting an exhibition to the birth of department stores, which in the mid-19th century became the new temples of modernity and consumerism. Au Bon Marché, Les Grands Magasins du Louvre, Au Printemps, La Samaritaine and Les Galeries Lafayette reveal their facets through history, politics and society, from the Second Empire to their consecration at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts.

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In the game! Artists and sport (1870-1930)

On the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the first to be held in the capital in a hundred years, the Musée Marmottan Monet will be presenting the exhibition "En jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930)". On this occasion, the museum will retrace the visual history of sport between 1870 and 1930 through over a hundred significant works from public and private collections in Europe, the United States and Japan (Musée National du Sport in Nice, Musée d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Musée Fabre in Montpellier, National Gallery of Art in Washington, Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice, etc.).

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Restaurant of the month

Le Moulin de la Galette

Le Moulin de la Galette is a legendary restaurant in the Montmartre district, just a few steps from Sacré-Coeur and Place du Tertre in Paris's 18th arrondissement. Housed in a former windmill, it offers classic French dishes in a cosy dining room or on the terrace.

A legendary venue on the Butte Montmartre, Le Moulin de la Galette was home to a popular 19th-century guinguette where the whole of Paris loved to gather. Turned into a restaurant in the 80s, the address went from popular guinguette to celebrity restaurant. The story begins in 1812, when miller Nicolas-Charles Debray, owner of the Moulin Blute-Fin and its farm, bought the Moulin Radet built on a neighboring property. Dalida is certainly among those who have left their mark on the neighborhood. At the Moulin de la Galette restaurant, where she had her table by the window...

83 Rue Lepic, 75018 Paris.

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