Beneath the grand columns of the Palais-Royal arcades, Café Le Nemours claims one of Paris's most enviable terraces. On Place Colette. named for the writer who once called the nearby gardens home. The scene unfolds with effortless charm: striped parasols shading wicker chairs, patrons savoring coffees and conversations, the hum of the 1st arrondissement all around.
Just steps from the Louvre and facing the Comédie-Française, this spot (a relative newcomer from the 1990s, but fully embraced as a classic) offers prime people-watching: locals in scarves, visitors snapping photos, friends clinking glasses. The facade's tall windows glow warmly, columns rise majestically, and the open square invites you to join the tableau.
A perfect terrace vignette, urban Paris at its sociable, sun-dappled best.
“A Paris terrace is never just somewhere to sit, it’s a way of observing the city at its own pace.”
Part of the “On the Terraces of Paris” series
Each Thursday we take a seat on one of Paris’s terraces, those open-air rooms where the city’s everyday life unfolds in full view.
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