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If you would like to have a metro ride on Saturday night between 23.00 and 5.20 hours (Sunday), call the firm "Ademas" and ask for Julian Pepinster or Benoit Renard. They are located 17, rue des Abondances at 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt tel and fax 0148251332.
They are the "Association d'exploitation du materiel Sprague". This material (named after the American engineer who conceived the specific electric equipment for the Paris metro) associated with Thomson, delivered its material until 1983. If you are Paris old-timers you will remember the terrible noise that was inherent to the Paris metro wagons. 
Pepinster and Renard offer for 200 FF, a journey in the Paris underground like you have never experienced but also a journey in time. At the station "Lilas" where the wagons start, an old-fashioned ticket puncher will punch your ticket (dimpled or not), and "en voiture pour l'aventure"!
Closed stations but deserving being visited due to their beautiful decoration will be seen, with all the explaining, as well as the ateliers of the RATP. Then, in the early morning hours, you'll have the traditional "soupe à l'oignon". To finish, the aerial metro, up in the air, just to have a look at Paris from the above in the very early morning. Amateurs?

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