- "And as our eyes met for the first time with mutual recognition, a memory clicked into place for me, of Paris, and the long Mercedes electrics gliding through the rain to Notre Dame; mobile greenhouses, Japanese faces behind the glass, and a hundred Nikons rising in blind phototropism, flowers of steel and crystal. Behind his eyes, as they found me, those same shutters whirring."
- —Johnny
Paris is a major city in France. It contains Orly with an aiport.
Parisian leathers are exported worldwide and are sold as stock in chrome racks in Harajuku. Paris exports artificial furs with mink DNA, grown on a collagen base. Such furs are found in the shops of Rue Jules Verne on Freeside.
A Parisian enamel specialist was hired by Tessier-Ashpool to contribute to the manfacture of a mechanical talking head.
While in France, Willis Corto was caught and taken to a Paris mental health unit, diagnosed as schizophrenic and became catatonic. He was sent to a government institution near Toulon.
Returning from Chiba City to the Sprawl, Molly Millions and Case made a stop there and Molly took him to shopping. While in Istanbul Case thought it resembled Paris. Later, they took a THY flight from the Yesilkoy airport to Paris and were transfered to the JAL shuttle for Freeside.