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The author analyses the contribution of a very coded kind of urban entertainment, the news revue, as a production of a local Parisian imaginary at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It gives an account of a moving identity supply which, according to periods of time, is in coherence with the ones produced in other spheres of local life. Paris is first staged as an integrative political community: the revuesque imaginary contributes to the reinforcement and the diffusion of the values glorified by the City Townhall. However, the central figure of the citizen gradually disappears behind the one of the inhabitant of a Parisian community more and more defined by social, cultural and behaviourist criteria, of which reviews would be autonomous producers.