Paris (The Cure album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Paris

| type = live

| artist = The Cure

| cover = Paris cov.jpg

| alt =

| released = 25 October 1993{{cite magazine|date=30 October 1993|title=none|magazine=NME|page=52}}

| recorded = 19–21 October 1992

| venue = Le Zénith de Paris, France

| genre =

| length = 57:37

| label =

• Fiction
• Elektra

| producer =

| prev_title = Show

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Wild Mood Swings

| next_year = 1996

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r188455|pure_url=yes}}|title=Paris – The Cure|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|publisher=AllMusic}}

| rev2 = Calgary Herald

| rev2score = B+Phillips, Shari (7 November 1993). "Recent Releases". Calgary Herald.

| rev3 = Hot Press

| rev3score = (favourable){{cite web|last1=Brennan|first1=Patrick|title=Paris|url=http://www.hotpress.com/The-Cure/music/reviews/albums/Paris/459967.html|website=Hot Press|access-date=28 February 2017|date=17 November 1993}}

| rev4 = Rolling Stone

| rev4score = (favourable){{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/paris-19931223|title=Paris|last=Evans|first=Paul|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=23 December 1993|access-date=13 November 2012}}

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev5score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-cure/albumguide|title=The Cure: Album Guide|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=13 November 2012}}

| rev6 = Vox

| rev6score = 8/10

}}

Paris is a live album recorded by The Cure at Le Zénith de Paris in October 1992, during their Wish tour. The band announced the album in July 1993 and released it that October.{{cite web|title=Take the Cure Twice|url=http://www.thecure.cz/resources/PRESS/UNITED-KINGDOM/19930710.mm.uk-x02.jpeg|website=Thecure.nz|access-date=28 February 2017|format=JPG|date=10 July 1993}}

Paris was released at the same time as Show, which was recorded in the United States. The album features more cult classics like "The Figurehead" and "One Hundred Years" than Show, which is generally more single-friendly.

50% of the royalties earned by the album were given to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement charities in support of their international relief work.

In mid-1996, Billboard reported that Paris had sold 95,000 copies in the United States by that point, much less than the 213,000 copies of Show sold there by the same point.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gA0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22the+cure%22+%22show%22+%22paris%22&pg=PA18 |title=Billboard |page=77 |date=30 March 1996 |access-date=8 September 2016}} The magazine described the release of the album "within a few weeks" of Show as exemplifying the "unorthodox career path" that the band had taken.