Opened in 1923, this theater-cum-cinema then theater again was in a dire state of disrepair before Minister of Culture Michael Guy chose it as the location for the Paris Autumn Festival.

Parisian nightlife fixture Fabrice Emaer renovated the building and transformed Le Palace as a keystone in Paris’ underground culture, one that played host to Karl Lagerfeld and the fashion elite, Andy Warhol and Prince’s debut. But it closed once again 1983 after Emaer passed, and struggled to find footing with a series of unremarkable re-openings.

As of November 2008, Le Palace’s most recent reincarnation harks back to its more glamorous years, renovated to the effect of its 1923 appearance and summoning some of its cultural vainglory.