Paris Paris was the capital of France . The First Doctor considered Paris to be " one of the most civilised of cities " . ( AUDIO : " Fields of Terror " ) The Fourth Doctor considered it " the only place in the universe where one can relax entirely " . ( TV : " City of Death " ) The Twelfth Doctor described Paris as a city with " an art gallery on every street and a cafe on every corner " . ( COMIC : " Gallery " ) Along with Poosh , it was one of the two places the Tenth Doctor would consider retiring to . ( PROSE : " The Vampire of Paris " ) History . 16th century . While the First Doctor went off to meet Paris resident Charles Preslin , Steven Taylor ended up stranded in Paris in August 1572 before the St Bartholomew ' s Day massacre . ( TV : " The Massacre of St Bartholomew ' s Eve " ) 17th century . In 1626 , George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham smuggled an English army into France to take Paris . ( AUDIO : " The Church and the Crown " ) 18th century . At some point , the Doctor learned to cook in 18th century Paris . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited pre - revolutionary Paris . As they left they were pulled in a time bubble . The Doctor later told Peri that some of the people they met would be beheaded a few years later . ( AUDIO : " Prime Winner " ) Separated from his TARDIS , the First Doctor and his companion s Susan Foreman , Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright got caught up in the French Revolution in Paris in July 1794 . ( TV : " The Reign of Terror " ) In the 18th century , the Theatre des Vampires was located in Paris . ( PROSE : " Possum Kingdom " ) 19th century . The Doctor met Edward VII in Paris in the 19th century . ( TV : " Inferno " ) In 1858 , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond visited Paris . ( COMIC : " The Screams of Death " ) In 1865 , Paris was " peaceful and prosperous " under the reign of Napoleon III . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) A time rift existed in Paris in 1871 , being one of several fractures created by Kadiatu Lethbridge - Stewart ' s time travel ling . The Seventh Doctor explained that these fractures could not be mended , and that they damaged the space - time they passed through . ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) In 1879 , Rose - the - Cat piloted the TARDIS to Paris and found a mouse . ( COMIC : " A Rose by Any Other Name " ) In the 1880s , the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived with the Apache chief War Eagle , having earlier mistakenly arrived in Paris , New Mexico in the United States . ( COMIC : " Perils of Paris " ) In April 1890 , the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones accompanied Pierre Bruyère aboard his balloon on his expedition to the Arctic . However , the timeline s had been manipulated by a " mysterious monster " and many versions of Bruyère had been frozen in alternate universe s . The Doctor had no choice but to rewrite the timeline and free all versions of Bruyère and his companions . In the new timeline , Bruyère became a baker in his family ' s bakery in Paris . ( PROSE : " The Frozen Wastes " ) In the 1890s , Professor George Litefoot imported his cologne from Paris . ( AUDIO : " The Mahogany Murderers " ) 20th century . In the spring of 1909 , the Twelfth Doctor visited Paris to attend the grand reopening of the Galerie d ' Art de Parisiennes . He discovered an alien that was trying to drain the life of guests at the reopening . The Doctor saved the day by trapping the alien in a painting . ( COMIC : " Gallery " ) In 1921 , the Eighth Doctor and Liv Chenka visited Paris . ( AUDIO : " The Monster of Montmartre " ) In 1923 , the Ninth Doctor took Rose Tyler to a Parisian cafe , the Tenth Doctor visited Paris to dispose of a Cyberman helmet , the Eleventh visited Paris to purchase comics and the Twelfth Doctor was brought to Paris when Clara Oswald piloted the TARDIS . The Tenth , Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors encountered each other , Gabby Gonzalez prevented them from summoning Reaper s and told them about the Voord Leader ' s plans . ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) In the 1930s , Iris Wildthyme and Tom visited Paris , where they met the writers Anais Nin , Henry Miller and June Miller , and defeated a plan by origami alien s to conquer Earth . ( PROSE : " Blame Iris " ) During the Second World War , Paris was occupied by the Nazi s . The Third Doctor aided a group of the French Resistance foil the Germans ' plans to invade Britain . ( COMIC : " Who is the Stranger " ) The Twelfth Doctor and Clara visited Paris following its liberation in 1944 , where they thwarted a plan by the Darapok Empire to brainwash human ity into destroying itself by destroying their transmitter on the Eiffel Tower , and then frightening them off . ( COMIC : " Trust " ) The first case outside England of the Silurian virus from Wenley Moor was reported in Paris . Thankfully , it was at that time the Third Doctor developed an antidote for the virus , which was soon used to stop the pandemic . ( TV : " Doctor Who and the Silurians " ) The Louvre , one of the best art galleries in the universe , was located in Paris and in it was the only known copy of the " Mona Lisa " ( though Scaroth of the Jagaroth had had more commissioned ) . It was noted for the location of the Eiffel Tower , a well - known landmark of the country , created by Gustave Eiffel in 1889 . ( TV : " City of Death " ) The First Doctor shared a drink with John Lucarotti in a Parisian inn . ( PROSE : " The Meeting " ) When asked about her holiday experiences , Donna Noble said that she had once visited Paris with school . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " ) By 1997 , Paris had its own branch of UNIT called NUIT . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) 21st century . During the first seconds of 1 January 2000 , Paris , along with the rest of the world , was nearly destroyed by the Eye of Harmony . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) A mime was acting in Paris at the turn of the millennium , transporting passers - by through time and space , to a series of underground catacombs , where a Minotaur was held , allowing those taken captive to go free if they could correctly answer his riddle . ( COMIC : " The Forgotten " ) In 2007 , when Cybermen from Pete ' s World invaded N - Space , appearing all over Earth , an army of Cybermen appeared in Paris . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) In 2008 , when the Rift Manipulator caused temporal incursions on a global scale , there were fears of a guillotine appearance in Paris . ( TV : " End of Days " ) Paris was one of ten major cities across the world , all of which had underground railways , where Coldfire Construction built a reactor within a period of 18 months as part of a plot by the Slitheen to drain the Sun ' s energy , operated by at least one Slitheen disguised using a skin suit made from a local . At somepoint in 2008 , after Sarah Jane Smith foiled the Slitheen with the help of her friends at Park Vale Comprehensive School at Ealing in London , she contacted UNIT so they would clear up the Coldfire sites . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) In 2010 , the Eleventh Doctor brought Vincent van Gogh to the Musée d ' Orsay in order to show him how appreciated his work would become . ( TV : " Vincent and the Doctor " ) After a wave of Shakri cube s arrived on Earth in the first half of the 21st century , hundreds of them could be seen in Paris by the Eiffel Tower . ( TV : " The Power of Three " ) Paris was among the world ' s major cities where forces of flying Cybermen emerged led by . Taking to the skies , they created a cloud of cyber - pollen above the city . These pollen clouds would then rain upon the grave s , recruiting the dead of the Earth into a new Cyberman army . When control of the Cyberman army went to the hands of the recently converted Danny Pink , he ordered all Cybermen to return to the skies and self - destruct , taking the pollen clouds with them in their combined explosions . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) In 2086 , the Ice Warrior s of Mars propelled an asteroid towards Earth and it crashed into Paris , completely destroying the city . This event marked the beginning of the Thousand Day War between human s and Ice Warriors . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) Later history . By the late 22nd century , the Paris crater was a tourist attraction . ( PROSE : " Fear Itself " ) When humans arrived on Venus , Paris had a namesake in the shape of the colony world New Paris . ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Daleks " ) In 2254 , Paris was among the major cities where bases were set up by the Dalek s , intending to turn Earth into a Dalek production planet , in their attempted invasion which was foiled by the Seventh Doctor . ( GAME : " Dalek Attack " ) Due to its cold climate and northern latitude , the Ice Warrior s sent their Seed Pods here to create an atmosphere lethal to human s , but which the Ice Warriors could thrive in . This was foiled when the Second Doctor used the Weather Control Unit to destroy the pods with rain . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) Alternate timelines . In an alternate timeline created by the Player s in which the Duke of Wellington was assassinated on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo , Napoléon Bonaparte emerged victorious . In July 1815 , there was a parade celebrating his victory on the Champs - Élysées in Paris . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Working with , the Dalek Time Controller created an alternate timeline where it took over Earth from Paris in 1921 . By 1961 , the planet was " New Skaro " and converting the bio - matter of human s , Sontaran s , Draconian s , and other aliens into a New Dalek Paradigm . ( AUDIO : " Master of the Daleks " ) In an alternate 2106 where the New Dalek Paradigm invaded Earth starting with London using a piece of the Eternity Clock , Paris was among the major cities where Dalek s were deposited to via transmat . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) Other realities . In an alternate universe , Paris was one of the cities to be invaded by Martians in 1894 . Iris Wildthyme , Panda , and Simon visited the Moulin Rouge on the night the invasion began . ( PROSE : " Enter Wildthyme " ) References . When Victoria Waterfield was kidnapped by the Dalek s , Edward Waterfield lied about her whereabouts to Arthur Terrall , saying that Victoria was in Paris . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " ) Clara Oswald had a travel guide to Paris in her collection . ( TV : " Dark Water " ) Behind the scenes . " City of Death " was filmed in Paris in 1979 , marking the first time that shooting for " Doctor Who " had occurred outside the United Kingdom . Ironically , at that time France was one of the few European countries that had yet to import the series .