I was born and raised in the Paris region and have spent my entire adult life in and around this city. Paris is not, for me, a collection of monuments to point at from a bus window — it is a layered, contradictory, inexhaustible place whose greatest pleasures are almost always hidden from view. The Roman amphitheatre tucked behind a Monge apartment block. The village of Art Deco houses in the 20th arrondissement that most Parisians have never visited. The covered passage where the 19th century never quite ended.
Before founding Chauffeur Paris Évasion, I spent years working in transport and developing a deep knowledge of every corner of the city — its streets, its rhythms, its parking secrets, its shortcuts and its surprises. I drove clients who wanted to get from A to B. But I noticed that what they really wanted — once they trusted me enough to say so — was to understand where they were. To see something real. To leave Paris feeling that they had touched the city, not just passed through it.
That observation became Chauffeur Paris Évasion. Fifteen thematic circuits, each built around the places that genuinely move me — the street art of Belleville, the nocturnal viewpoints that professional photographers guard jealously, the tapestry weavers who still work for the Élysée, the abandoned railway reclaimed by wildflowers and graffiti in the 15th arrondissement. Not the Paris of the guidebook. The Paris of someone who loves it.
I drive a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Executive — 100% electric, silent and genuinely comfortable — because I believe that how you travel is as important as where you go. The silences between stops, the view through a large window, the absence of exhaust fumes when we drive through the Bois de Boulogne — these things matter. They are part of the experience.
Every tour is private. Every itinerary is flexible. Every passenger is treated as a guest, not a ticket. If you want to spend an extra twenty minutes at the Arènes de Lutèce because the quality of light is extraordinary — we stay. If you want to skip a stop and add somewhere you spotted on the way — we adapt. Paris belongs to you for the duration of the circuit. My job is to make sure you see the best of it.