Yes, I am near the canal, she said with hipster snobbery. I've been here since 2016, when it was pretty hipster, but its previous dodgy reputation lingered. Now, it is gentrifying further; the quirky, hipster cafés are migrating north to Belleville in the 19e, and we now have "Instagram Fashion cafés."

There was a Mistress Cindy with a massive dungeon in Pigalle, but it is long since gone. I wouldn't say there is an epicenter of the scene here; I wouldn't say there is a scene until the last few years. There are only a handful of tiny dungeons, but they are all on Rive Droite.