Just beneath the black structure, in the square between the tower and Gare Montparnasse sits, incongruously, this small carousel. Named, ‘Le Petits Titi’, this is old fashioned slang for a child of Paris, or even what the English would think of as a street urchin: a charmer, a joker, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the streets….. … More Carousel, Tour Montparnasse
As it is temporary, it is often to be found in winter and it is beautiful at night as the ghostly buildings look on to the carousel, with it’s simple white lights that skirt the panelling, stairs and inside columns. Nothing is brash about this carousel…. … More Carrousel, La Belle Epoque, Hotel de Ville
Here at the gates of the city, surrounded by candy floss and other amusements, this large carousel takes the writer Jules Verne as its theme, just like the smaller manège in Parc Monceau.
Like that carousel, the panels are decorated with scenes from Verne’s novels … More Carousel, Parc de la Villette
The carousel radiates colour, from the red poles that the horses hang on, through to the magnificent hand-carved horses, yellow, pink, blue and white, some even provided with stirrups….. … More Manège 1913
Situated in the Trocadero gardens in the 16th arrondissement, with a view of the Eiffel Tower, this is a magnificent double decker carousel, in the Belle Epoch style. Similar to the carousels at Sacre Coeur and the Tuilleries, it is deceptively smaller than its cousins… … More Jardin du Trocadero
this really does have a charm to it. Situated on the corner of the rue des Martrys and avenue Trudaine, it is rectangular in form and extremely small. The rides are crammed in to a small pink round base in the centre…. … More Le Lutin, rue des Martyrs
Opened in 1992, the idea of a scientist working in the museum, the carousel consists of rides of extinct and endangered animals. Populated by quite a few sivatheriums, this animal is a cross between an elan and a giraffe. They move up and down on the manège and are the closest thing it has to a horse….. … More Dodo Manège
On one of the busiest shopping roads in Paris, right next to St Paul metro, where rue de Rivoli becomes wider and also intersects the Marais, is this modern carousel….. … More Carousel, St Paul
It is quite rare to see a completely square carousel in Paris, decorated willy-nilly with Asterix, Disney, Hello Kitty, you name it, it’s probably there. Four columns on each end, with added columns that either do nothing, or hold the thing up….. … More Manège, place de Torcy
Hexagonal in shape, with a circular base for the rides, the outside is a swirl of pink pushed through to bright yellow, with pictures of a horse, a crow a tiger and a self-satisfied clown adorning the outside….. … More Manège Enfantin, Le Bayard, Place de la Bastille
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