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Cimetière parisien de Bagneux.

One of Paris' municipal cemeteries is located outside the southern boundaries of the city at Bagneux.  Here's a photo from this autumn, by Guillaume Bontemps, Ville de Paris

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Théâtre Armande Béjart, 16 place de l’Hôtel de Ville, Asnières-sur-Seine

An 800-seat municipal theatre founded in 1974, it produces about 40 shows a year: theatre, ballet, concerts, musical comedies, variety shows, stand-up comedy and children's shows.

The 2019-20 season includes: La ménagerie de verre (The Glass Menagerie), Mademoiselle Molière, Kean by Alexandre Dumas, and many other Moliere-winning plays from the last Paris season.  It's 25 minutes northwest from Paris Gare Saint-Lazare by Metro line 13, even shorter by transilien train.

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Théâtre de Sartrouville et des Yvelines (Centre dramatique national), Place Jacques-Brel, Sartrouville

The theatre was founded in 1966 by the star group of Claude Sévenier, Patrice Chéreau, and Jean-Pierre Vincent; the building was opened in 1986. Soon after, it became one of 5 French 'centres dramatiques pour l’enfance et la jeunesse', until it took on its current status of 'centre dramatique national.' It now has theatre spaces of 850 seats and 250 seats, as well as a rehearsal space. The 2019-20 season includes a strong showing of children's theatre, dance, music, clowns, and plays including Molière's La Malade Imaginaire, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Racine's Bérénice.

An RER A train and a local bus will get you to the theatre northwest from La Defense in about 45 minutes.

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Théâtre Nout, 7 rue du 19 mars 1962, L'Île-Saint-Denis

The company was founded in 1997 by Hazem El Awadly, who came to France from Egypt in 1983, and worked under Antonio Diaz-Florian at the Théâtre de l’Épée de Bois at the Cartoucherie. His 50-seat theatre on the Île-Saint-Denis dates from 2000.

M. El Awadly has adapted works for children, such as: Sinbad le Marin, Pinocchio, Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs, Aladdin et la lampe merveilleuse, and La petite sirène; and for adults: works by Oscar Wilde, Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet.

It's a 20 minute trip from Paris Gare de Lyon on the RER D, then an 8-minute walk.

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Théâtre de la Clarté, 74 Avenue du Général Leclerc, Boulogne-Billancourt,

Since 1995, this suburban 200-seat theatre has staged seasons of children's theatre and musicals, one man/woman-shows, with some contemporary comedies, as well as workshops for adults and children.

It's 100 metres from the Billancourt metro station on line 9.

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Espace Michel-Simon, 36 Rue de la République, 93160 Noisy-le-Grand

A municipal theatre officially opened in 1989, it includes a 716-seat theatre space, an auditorium an art-gallery, a médiathèque, and a bar-restaurant. The 2019-20 season includes many plays nominated for or awarded Molières: La Machine de Turing (winner of 4 in 2019), a Proust adaptation, a Cyrano adaptation, a Carmen adaptation in dance, Le Misanthrope with Lambert Wilson directed by Peter Stein, and several evenings of music and dance.  All touring shows, but first rate.

It's 22 minutes by RER A (including a short walk) from the Vincennes station just outside the eastern boundary of Paris.

ps re: Michel Simon.  If you saw The Train, a Burt Lancaster movie about French resistance, Simon played Papa Boule, the feisty old engineer who ends up shot for sabotage. Swiss by origin, he lived in Noisy-le-Grand.

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Théâtre Romain Rolland, 18 rue Eugène Varlin, Villejuif

Created in 1964, this theatre for many years had a left-wing political orientation, emphasizing innovation and the involvement of local residents through film and live theatre.

It has two stages: one, newly-renovated with 651 seats, and another in a neighbouring building (as of 2006) with 130 seats.  Interestingly, the main space has been deliberately down-sized from its original 1,000 seats.  The 2019-20 season will see new shows by young artists as well as a play by Mikhail Boulgakov,  and a new production of Marivaux' Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard by director Benoît Lambert.

The theatre is 5 km south of Place d'Italie (13e arrondissement) and is accessible by a short walk from metro line 7.

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Théâtre Adolphe-Adam, Longjumeau (Suburb 23 km south of central Paris)

A 954-seat, municipally-owned theatre built in the 1970s.  I saw a touring production of Désiré, by Sacha Guitry.

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