Living on the Seine: Inside Paris’s iconic floating houseboats

October 30, 2025

If you’ve ever visited Paris and taken a walk along the Seine, you may have noticed the houseboats – or “péniches” as we call them in French – on the banks of the river. But who lives in these iconic floating homes, and what’s it like to live on one? Hilbren Buijs, a small boat captain on the Seine, gives us the lowdown in this edition of Entre Nous.

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