Les Trois Baudets stands at 64 Boulevard de Clichy in Pigalle, in the 18th arrondissement, a music venue with a long place in the history of French song. It pairs a theatre-style basement concert room with a lounge bar on the first floor, and the programme leans on chanson and new French acts.
The pitch is a small room with a serious back story. This is a venue for people who came for the music and a drink before or after the set, not a late club. Anyone after a dance floor or a DJ night should look elsewhere, because the focus here is the stage and the songwriting.
The history is the draw. ParisJeTaime records that the venue was founded in the late 1940s by Jacques Canetti and served as a launch pad for Georges Brassens and Serge Gainsbourg, among other major names. After an Art Deco renovation it reopened as a space for young talent, and since 2019 it has been run jointly with the FGO-Barbara concert hall. The basement holds the stage, while the first-floor bar gives the night a place to gather.
Order from the lounge bar before the set, where the list runs to wine, beer and simple cocktails rather than a long mixology menu. The room is built around the concert, so the bar is a warm-up and a between-sets stop more than a destination in its own right. Tickets are sold per show, and the bar opens to ticket holders on concert nights.
The crowd follows the booking, with a music-literate, mixed-age audience for the chanson and singer-songwriter nights that anchor the calendar. Agenda Culturel and Sortir a Paris list a steady 2026 programme of French pop and new acts, which keeps the room turning over week to week. The standard hours run Wednesday to Saturday from 7pm to 2am, with extra dates when a concert is booked.
Getting there is easy. The Blanche and Pigalle Metro stops on lines 2 and 12 sit a short walk away, on the same stretch of Boulevard de Clichy. The venue puts drinkers in the middle of Pigalle, within reach of the area later bars for anyone who wants to keep the night going after the set.
The booking sets the tone each night. The 2026 calendar listed on Agenda Culturel and Sortir a Paris runs heavy on French pop, chanson and singer-songwriter sets, with a rotating cast of new acts rather than big touring names. That focus on emerging talent is the venue stated mission, and it keeps ticket prices modest for a central Paris room.
The layout shapes the night. The concert room sits in a theatre-style basement built for listening, with seating close to the stage, while the first-floor lounge bar gives the crowd a place to gather before and after the set. The Art Deco renovation kept the period feel, and ParisJeTaime notes the venue long role as a launch pad for new French music.
Pigalle adds to the draw. The venue sits on the same Boulevard de Clichy stretch as the area best-known nightlife, a few doors from the Moulin Rouge, which makes it an easy anchor for an evening that starts with a concert and ends in the neighbourhood later bars.
Best time to go is a concert night, with a drink in the first-floor bar before the act. Who it is for: a chanson fan, a listener who wants new French talent and a pre-show drinker. For more rooms like it, see our best live music bars in Paris guide, the Pigalle bars in Paris guide, and our pillar on the best live music bars worldwide.
Sources: Les Trois Baudets official site (2026); ParisJeTaime; Sortir a Paris; Agenda Culturel Paris concert listings 2026
