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Paris, Paris
Le Marais gay bar with basement dance floor and 4-hour happy hour
Freedj sits on Rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, the central artery of Le Marais and the heart of gay Paris. It's a two-level bar: a relaxed ground floor with a bar and pool table for the early-evening apero, and a small basement that turns into a club as the night goes on, the DJs running house and pop heavy on Madonna and Lady Gaga. It's compact, which is the point, the kind of room that feels full and friendly rather than cavernous. The crowd is mostly gay men, young and sociable, and it gets genuinely packed on weekends. Locals treat it as a starting point for the night, a place to warm up before drifting to the other bars a few doors away, but the basement is reason enough to stay put. For a first taste of the Marais nightlife without a cover or a velvet rope, this is an easy door to walk through.
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