Living on the Seine: Inside Paris's iconic floating houseboats
 • Oct 30, 2025, 1:43 PM
                1 min de lecture
             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 Buys, a small boat captain on the Seine, gives us the lowdown in this edition of Entre Nous.
                        
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 Buys, a small boat captain on the Seine, gives us the lowdown in this edition of Entre Nous.
        