At the heart of the neighborhood.

As every year at the approach of the end of the year festivities, the Comité Haussmann Paris invites you to discover the Christmas illuminations from Saturday, November 12 to the beginning of January 2023.

Since the year 2020, the activity of cultural institutions has been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences. Thanks to a creative and innovative system that allows people to sponsor a seat, the Théâtre Mogador and Opéra de Paris want to keep fulfilling their common mission : to make culture accessible to the largest possible number.

An Haussmann area institution ever since the Opéra Garnier opened its doors in January 1875, the Opéra national de Paris joined the Haussmann Paris Committee in 2020. If it took a while for the Committee and Opera to join forces, their cultural and geographical proximity made it very natural for them to do so. Deputy General Director at Opéra National de Paris, Martin Ajdari explains why. 

Laurent Bentata is the managing director of Stage Entertainment, the company which owns and runs the Théâtre Mogador. To mark the fact that the theatre is joining the Haussmann Paris Committee, he was nice enough to answer our questions… 

Forever associated to the Grands Magasins and a constantly evolving idea of French Chic, the Haussmann neighborhood is also a place where all sorts of Parisians meet. In this month of September like no other, they’re busy, they’re in a hurry, and they’re wearing masks.

Following the example set by Macy’s, in New York, the Grands Magasins put up special decorations in their windows for the Christmas holidays, and have been doing so since the beginning of the 20th century. And in 2019 more than ever, people come from all over to admire them. 

By inaugurating bollards and barriers bearing the “Haussmann Paris” logo all over the neighborhood, the Haussmann Paris committee freshens itself up and asserts itself for all of its visitors.  

What better time than Paris Fashion Week to shed some of the limelight on young designers? 

A few feet away from the Haussmann Boulevard’s hubbub, on the roof of the Galeries Lafayette, a startup called Sous les Fraises has set up a responsible garden where fruit, vegetables and plants grow. A story of green, a story of coming together.  

For 2018’s holiday season, the Haussmann Paris Committee unveiled its “Christmas gang” and illuminated the world-famous district.

Still relatively rural in the first half of the XIXth century, the Haussmann district was born at the instigation of the man who would give it his name.

Since her parents used to run a restaurant rue Saint Georges, a few blocks away from the Haussmann Boulevard, Delphine Bürkli knows the neighborhood like few others. Mayor of Paris’s 9^th arrondissement since 2014, she gladly pays tribute to its energy and drive.

Crucial figures of Parisian life, newspaper kiosks wave seen the city change a lot since their creation more than 160 years ago. When asked, every vendor really tells the story of his neighborhood, on the scale of a lifetime.

If the Haussmann district only needed a few years to become a focal point of fashion in Paris, it had nothing to do with chance or coincidence.

Thanks to its new website, the Haussmann Paris Committee can bring forward its actions and objectives, keep its locals and visitors updated on its latest news, and broaden its reach in France and abroad.