Edinburgh in August turns into one enormous comedy room, but the Laughing Horse Free Festival is the version of it that doesn't ask you to pick a show in advance, budget for a ticket, or plan your evening around a…

Rue des Boulangers is the kind of Left Bank street that looks built for a postcard: narrow, cobbled, a few doors down from the buzz of Rue Mouffetard, tucked into the 5th arrondissement's student-and-tourist tangle.…