Le Divan du Monde & Chez Madame Arthur

Montmartre & Northern Paris


Very much an iconic, cross-cultural address at the foot of Montmartre, this hybrid cabaret-club has played host to cabaret troupe Madame Arthur since 1946. The first show is at 8pm, and the dance floor thrives with clubbers from midnight. Soirées are themed around a music genre, band or artist: 100% musique française, Britney Spears, 1980s French pop group Les Rita Mitsouko, Françoise Hardy etc.

Dress code: no shorts, flip-flops or sports trainers/sneakers.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Montmartre & Northern Paris attractions

1. Abbesses Metro Entrance

0.14 MILES

Designed by art nouveau architect Hector Guimard, Abbesses' wrought-iron, glass-canopied metro entrance is Paris' only remaining Model A entrance, and one…

2. Le Mur des je t'aime

0.16 MILES

Few visitors can resist a selfie in front of Montmartre's 'I Love You' wall, a public artwork created in a small park by artists Frédéric Baron and Claire…

3. Playground Duperré

0.19 MILES

Looking more like a dramatic street-art installation, Paris' 'most beautiful basketball court' was redone in 2017 by Parisian design studio Ill-Studio in…

4. Le Bateau Lavoir

0.25 MILES

In the late 19th century and early 20th century impoverished artists Max Jacob, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso – who painted Les Demoiselles d…

5. Halle St-Pierre

0.25 MILES

Founded in 1986, this museum and gallery is in a lovely former covered market. It focuses on the primitive and Art Brut schools; there is no permanent…

6. Dalí Paris

0.27 MILES

More than 300 works by Salvador Dalí (1904–89), the flamboyant Catalan surrealist printmaker, painter, sculptor and self-promoter, are on display at this…

7. Place du Tertre

0.28 MILES

Today filled with visitors, buskers and portrait artists, place du Tertre was originally the main square of the village of Montmartre before it was…

8. Musée de la Vie Romantique

0.3 MILES

Framed by green shutters, this mansion where painter Ary Scheffer once lived sits in a cobbled courtyard at the end of a tree-shaded alley. The objects…