Airbus writes:

Well that's handy - If you're talking about Paris, France the arrival and
departure procedures are designed to circumnavigate the city . . .

Yes, but as I said, even when I lived in another city beneath an arrival path
for one of the world's largest airports, I still didn't hear much.

It used to be entirely forbidden to overfly Paris without special permission,
but now I do see aircraft occasionally flying over the city. I understand
that rules were relaxed some years ago (ironically not long after 9/11), but
at the same time I still see Paris marked as a prohibited area on the charts,
so I'm not sure what the status is exactly.